{"id":229845,"date":"2025-07-01T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229845\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:23:09","slug":"prince-william-hasnt-revealed-tax-payments-as-prince-of-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229845\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Hasn’t Revealed Tax Payments as Prince of Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/strong><\/a> has not revealed the amount he paid in federal taxes last year \u2014 but he doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

A report revealing the royal family\u2019s salaries<\/a>, released on Tuesday, July 1, revealed that William, 43, made \u00a322.9 million (which converts to around $33.4 million) from April 2024 to this past March through his Duchy of Cornwall estate.<\/p>\n

Kensington Palace confirmed to Hello! Magazine<\/a> that William paid federal taxes on the wages, even though he did not disclose how much. It\u2019s important to note that it\u2019s not required for William to reveal the amount he paid in taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Prince of Wales pays the highest rate of income tax,\u201d William\u2019s private secretary, Ian Patrick<\/strong>, shared in a statement.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tPrince William chose to remain tight-lipped about what he paid in taxes, unlike his father, King Charles III. The Prince of Wales\u2019 Duchy of Cornwall estate generated \u00a323.6 million (roughly $30 million) in the last financial year, per the estate\u2019s Integrated Annual Report published on Wednesday, July 24. (William, 42, inherited the estate and the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

William and his immediate family \u2014 including Princess Kate Middleton <\/strong>and three kids: Prince George<\/strong>, 11, Princess Charlotte<\/strong>, 10, and Prince Louis<\/strong>, 7 \u2014 get paid through the Duchy of Cornwall, which is a private estate established in 1337. (The Prince of Wales is also the Duke of Cornwall.)<\/p>\n

William\u2019s recently reported salary is less than he made last year. The previous royal salary report, released in July 2024<\/a>, stated William made \u00a323.6 million (which converts to about $32.4 million) in the 2023\u20132024 year.<\/p>\n

Prior to taking the throne, King Charles III<\/strong> was in his eldest son\u2019s position. He publicly disclosed the amount he paid in income tax as the Prince of Wales from 1993 to 2022.<\/p>\n

The royal family\u2019s main source of income comes from the Sovereign Grant, which is taxpayer-funded and paid out each year.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s report revealed that the 2024\u20132025 Sovereign Grant totaled \u00a386.3 million (which converts to about $118 million).<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe members of the royal family may dedicate their lives to public service, but that doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t earn money. The monarch\u2019s main source of income comes from a taxpayer-funded settlement known as the Sovereign Grant, which is paid annually. The Sovereign Grant was worth 86.3 million English pounds, or the equivalent of nearly [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the biggest reveals in the report was news that Charles would decommission the Royal Train in 2027 following two costly trips in this past financial year, which were estimated to be a combined total of about \u00a378,000 (which converts to about $107,000.)<\/p>\n

Prior to her 2022 death, Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> favored the Royal Train as a method of transportation. However, Keeper of the Privy Purse, James Chalmers<\/strong>, stated in the report that the decommissioning will be part of the royal family\u2019s ongoing modernization strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Royal Train has been part of national life for many decades, loved and cared for by all those involved. But in moving forwards, we must not be bound by the past,\u201d he stated. \u201cJust as so many parts of the Royal household\u2019s work have been modernized and adapted to reflect the world of today, so too, the time has come to bid the fondest of farewells as we seek to be disciplined and forward looking in our allocation of funding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William has not revealed the amount he paid in federal taxes last year \u2014 but he doesn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,4082,533,12,2832,532,2831,7710,519,14066,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-229845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-celebrity-news","12":"tag-kate-middleton","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-prince-of-wales","15":"tag-prince-william","16":"tag-princess-of-wales","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-the-royals","20":"tag-uk-royal-family","21":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114779142806230468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}