*Other sources of income include six lifeboat stations owned by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) — a charity of which the King is patron — which have to pay £600 a year in total to use Duchy beaches in Salcombe, Sennen Cove, the Lizard, Rock, Penlee and St Mary’s.*
£600 a year for 5 sites is a token payment. Nothing to get in a twist about. 33p per day per site.
Not exactly what you’d call profiteering.
Edit: I stand corrected. It’s 6 sites so £100 per site per year or 27p per day
Um don’t the profits of the Dutchy not go to the treasury and the level of the profits determines the sovereign grant?
And besides the RNLI, largely due to their amazing work, is not stuck for cash. They are an incredibly well funded charity
Does anyone actually think that Charles, William, etc go through their finances one line at a time, reviewing each individual payment that’s incoming and outgoing? That they personally approve every single expenditure and invoice every single penny owed to them?
No, that’s what accountants etc are for. People who have the education specifically tailored to managing the finances of other people. You don’t buy a dog and then bark yourself.
At best what they’ll be seeing on a regular basis is a summary, an overall view of their finances. No nitty gritty details, no blaring red text saying “you’re charging a hospital to store their ambulances and the RNLI to launch their boats”. It’s possible that they didn’t even know that the RNLI hadn’t been granted an exemption to the fees for launching boats from Duchy beaches.
Did the RNLI even _request_ said exemption in the first place? I see no mention either way in the article.
There are things in the world to get outraged by. Getting outraged at people because of decisions they didn’t personally make is probably rather low down that list.
Edit: as someone points out, £600 a year for the use of 6 beaches is £100 a year _per beach_, or 27p per beach per day. That’s akin to a [peppercorn rent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)) that exists only to create a binding legal contract, i.e. we give this token payment and you allow us to use the beaches.
Easy to have a go at almost any one who is wealthy. Our current Chancellor collects rent so maybe she will get criticised? Stop feeling hard done by in other people’s behalf. Better to concentrate on making things work.
Here is an idea. Lets get rid of the royals so they don’t need to pay
Im not sure why people are surprised by this. They literally only care about themselves and have convinced us to care about them. Its like some weird brain parasite.
should charge them more so they can stop them bringing back illegals
You would think it would be the other way round with Charlie boy paying the RNLI to be on those sites and for the prestige they bring to the royal suffix.
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Yeah I’m not a royalist but the charges here are pittance per day which normally means that there is some archaic kickback systems in place where the RNLI profs out of it rather than being whipped by the ‘bastard Royalty’.
The alternative is some (other) private landlord owning it and adding some zeroes to the rent in order to have another Golf membership and dividends for their shareholders and we have people drown because the money is going to the wrong people.
I’m happy with this arrangement.
This is a peppercorn rent, solely to stop other people building on land owned by the Duchy. This is fairly standard practice, and I imagine the RNLI have similar agreements with other private harbours and Beaches
The massive irony of thinking the Royal Family takes more than it gives to the RNLI. Some people are so desperate to connect the dots they go cross-eyed.
> royal family
Quick check on who runs the duchy of Lancaster. It’s the government. There is a cabinet minister in charge of it. Place your blame on him
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*Other sources of income include six lifeboat stations owned by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) — a charity of which the King is patron — which have to pay £600 a year in total to use Duchy beaches in Salcombe, Sennen Cove, the Lizard, Rock, Penlee and St Mary’s.*
£600 a year for 5 sites is a token payment. Nothing to get in a twist about. 33p per day per site.
Not exactly what you’d call profiteering.
Edit: I stand corrected. It’s 6 sites so £100 per site per year or 27p per day
Um don’t the profits of the Dutchy not go to the treasury and the level of the profits determines the sovereign grant?
And besides the RNLI, largely due to their amazing work, is not stuck for cash. They are an incredibly well funded charity
Does anyone actually think that Charles, William, etc go through their finances one line at a time, reviewing each individual payment that’s incoming and outgoing? That they personally approve every single expenditure and invoice every single penny owed to them?
No, that’s what accountants etc are for. People who have the education specifically tailored to managing the finances of other people. You don’t buy a dog and then bark yourself.
At best what they’ll be seeing on a regular basis is a summary, an overall view of their finances. No nitty gritty details, no blaring red text saying “you’re charging a hospital to store their ambulances and the RNLI to launch their boats”. It’s possible that they didn’t even know that the RNLI hadn’t been granted an exemption to the fees for launching boats from Duchy beaches.
Did the RNLI even _request_ said exemption in the first place? I see no mention either way in the article.
There are things in the world to get outraged by. Getting outraged at people because of decisions they didn’t personally make is probably rather low down that list.
Edit: as someone points out, £600 a year for the use of 6 beaches is £100 a year _per beach_, or 27p per beach per day. That’s akin to a [peppercorn rent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)) that exists only to create a binding legal contract, i.e. we give this token payment and you allow us to use the beaches.
Easy to have a go at almost any one who is wealthy. Our current Chancellor collects rent so maybe she will get criticised? Stop feeling hard done by in other people’s behalf. Better to concentrate on making things work.
Here is an idea. Lets get rid of the royals so they don’t need to pay
Im not sure why people are surprised by this. They literally only care about themselves and have convinced us to care about them. Its like some weird brain parasite.
should charge them more so they can stop them bringing back illegals
You would think it would be the other way round with Charlie boy paying the RNLI to be on those sites and for the prestige they bring to the royal suffix.
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Yeah I’m not a royalist but the charges here are pittance per day which normally means that there is some archaic kickback systems in place where the RNLI profs out of it rather than being whipped by the ‘bastard Royalty’.
The alternative is some (other) private landlord owning it and adding some zeroes to the rent in order to have another Golf membership and dividends for their shareholders and we have people drown because the money is going to the wrong people.
I’m happy with this arrangement.
This is a peppercorn rent, solely to stop other people building on land owned by the Duchy. This is fairly standard practice, and I imagine the RNLI have similar agreements with other private harbours and Beaches
The massive irony of thinking the Royal Family takes more than it gives to the RNLI. Some people are so desperate to connect the dots they go cross-eyed.
> royal family
Quick check on who runs the duchy of Lancaster. It’s the government. There is a cabinet minister in charge of it. Place your blame on him
Tip of the iceberg
Watch
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-king-the-prince-their-secret-millions
If the monarchy is so bad why do republicans always post such lame examples when they try and show it?
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