Prince William’s role as Prince of Wales comes with significant financial resources.
A report from June 2025 revealed Prince William received a hefty $30 million for his second year’s income from the Duchy of Cornwall estate. The Duchy of Cornwall is a title and estate he inherited when his father, King Charles, ascended the throne in 2022.
Calling it a salary is a little misleading as it seems to imply it’s coming from the government. It’s income from the Duchy or Cornwall, just to be clear.
As a citizen of a European monarchy I can’t help feeling that in the near future these monarchies are going to get into trouble. They keep getting away with obtaining this extreme wealth and it must make them confident that people are fine with it/can’t be bothered to do something about it. But life is getting more grim in Europe and there is a point at which people won’t swallow the inequality and in your face unearned wealth anymore
That’s appalling. The man does the bare minimum
I got to be honest, as someone who has been a royal watcher for a very long time, he’s pretty disappointing. He uses every excuse he can not to work, he spends a lot of time on pet projects that seem to be for his own personal PR than any actual good.
> Prince William’s Annual $30 Million Salary Revealed in 2025 Royal Report
It’s not a salary. It’s more akin to stock dividends.
Whether he should be entitled to that much is a different question
This is private income from land he owns, not a “salary.” The duchy of Cornwall is even farther removed from public ownership than the crown estates.
If the monarchy were abolished the only way the government could take that land from the royal family is in the event of some wide scale communist revolution where no noble family is allowed to own large swaths of property.
It’s also silly to say the government gave it so it can take it back, because the duchy originated in 1337, the government of today has only a passing resemblance to what it was then, it’s more accurate to say Edward I gave it to them.
Parliament (over the centuries) has given huge swaths of land to countless other noble families often at the behest of monarchs, which is why this could only occur in the context of a communist overtake, they can’t pick and choose which noble families get to keep their ancestral lands and which don’t, it has to be an all or nothing type of deal or it just becomes bullying.
I hate how anti-royalists will obfuscate language to try and drive an agenda. I think it’s fine to be anti-royalist but when you can’t stand on your own argument that you want to vote for your own head of state and instead have to mislead I lose respect for the stance.
30 million to one of the laziest sacks in the UK
I’m sure he deserves every penny 🙄
Money he pays no taxes on.
His salary isn’t 30 million, the Dutchy has 30 million in distributable surplus. Whoever is the current Prince of Wales gets income from the Dutchy. Part of this is rental income from property owned by the Dutchy. That’s where the 30 million comes from.
Beyond that, a lot of the Dutchy money goes into other projects. According to the report, they’re building a 2,500 bed facility for the unhoused and an environmental project to restore peatland.
He’s the heir to *centuries* of accumulated wealth. This isn’t shocking, just math.
I think the real issue with William’s private income is if part of it comes from leases with government entities. It seems unfair that he would derive rental income from the government and not pay taxes on it. At the very least when it comes to these types of leases, the government should be granted a discount in lieu of non-collection of taxes.
The amount I could invest into the s&p500 if I was him oh my god
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Prince William’s role as Prince of Wales comes with significant financial resources.
A report from June 2025 revealed Prince William received a hefty $30 million for his second year’s income from the Duchy of Cornwall estate. The Duchy of Cornwall is a title and estate he inherited when his father, King Charles, ascended the throne in 2022.
The Duchy of Cornwall published its [Integrated Annual Report](https://duchyofcornwall.org/article/the-duchy-of-cornwall-publishes-its-integrated-impact-report-for-2025/) for 2025 earlier this year, revealing a distributable surplus of ÂŁ22.9 million ($30.9 million) for the 2024-2025 financial year, Prince William’s second year as the Duke of Cornwall.Â
Calling it a salary is a little misleading as it seems to imply it’s coming from the government. It’s income from the Duchy or Cornwall, just to be clear.
As a citizen of a European monarchy I can’t help feeling that in the near future these monarchies are going to get into trouble. They keep getting away with obtaining this extreme wealth and it must make them confident that people are fine with it/can’t be bothered to do something about it. But life is getting more grim in Europe and there is a point at which people won’t swallow the inequality and in your face unearned wealth anymore
That’s appalling. The man does the bare minimum
I got to be honest, as someone who has been a royal watcher for a very long time, he’s pretty disappointing. He uses every excuse he can not to work, he spends a lot of time on pet projects that seem to be for his own personal PR than any actual good.
> Prince William’s Annual $30 Million Salary Revealed in 2025 Royal Report
It’s not a salary. It’s more akin to stock dividends.
Whether he should be entitled to that much is a different question
This is private income from land he owns, not a “salary.” The duchy of Cornwall is even farther removed from public ownership than the crown estates.
If the monarchy were abolished the only way the government could take that land from the royal family is in the event of some wide scale communist revolution where no noble family is allowed to own large swaths of property.
It’s also silly to say the government gave it so it can take it back, because the duchy originated in 1337, the government of today has only a passing resemblance to what it was then, it’s more accurate to say Edward I gave it to them.
Parliament (over the centuries) has given huge swaths of land to countless other noble families often at the behest of monarchs, which is why this could only occur in the context of a communist overtake, they can’t pick and choose which noble families get to keep their ancestral lands and which don’t, it has to be an all or nothing type of deal or it just becomes bullying.
I hate how anti-royalists will obfuscate language to try and drive an agenda. I think it’s fine to be anti-royalist but when you can’t stand on your own argument that you want to vote for your own head of state and instead have to mislead I lose respect for the stance.
30 million to one of the laziest sacks in the UK
I’m sure he deserves every penny 🙄
Money he pays no taxes on.
His salary isn’t 30 million, the Dutchy has 30 million in distributable surplus. Whoever is the current Prince of Wales gets income from the Dutchy. Part of this is rental income from property owned by the Dutchy. That’s where the 30 million comes from.
Beyond that, a lot of the Dutchy money goes into other projects. According to the report, they’re building a 2,500 bed facility for the unhoused and an environmental project to restore peatland.
[You can read the report here](https://duchyofcornwall.org/article/the-duchy-of-cornwall-publishes-its-integrated-impact-report-for-2025/).
He’s the heir to *centuries* of accumulated wealth. This isn’t shocking, just math.
I think the real issue with William’s private income is if part of it comes from leases with government entities. It seems unfair that he would derive rental income from the government and not pay taxes on it. At the very least when it comes to these types of leases, the government should be granted a discount in lieu of non-collection of taxes.
The amount I could invest into the s&p500 if I was him oh my god
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