Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III’s younger brother, is facing banishment from royal premises.

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    How about we ban all the “royalty” from all these estates (and confiscate their wealth while we’re on it) and use them for housing poor and homeless (and their wealth to finance this)? That seems less prone to scandals.

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      2 days ago

      That’s theft

      Also they aren’t even that rich by modern standards. They aren’t billionaires.

      Most of the profit their land makes goes to the treasury anyway. They only get a tiny fraction of it

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      So you want to steal their private property? Then bankrupt a lot of homeless charities by making them use very expensive buildings, then have a lot of bored people with nothing to do because they’re stuck in a country estate?

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            As I thought… “the land was awarded to a Norman knight, Robert Fitz-Corbun after the Norman Conquest.” So the government can “steal” it and sell it to a non profit, this way people like you should be ok with it.