#palaces — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #palaces, aggregated by home.social.
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“How much #money will the coronation of #King Charles III #cost the #British public? What #tax rate will our new king pay on his private #income? How many engagements did “working #royals” such as the #Dukes of #Gloucester and #Kent attend over the last five years? How much were they #paid? How much #rent do #Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who are not working royals, pay for residences in royal #palaces?
In recent weeks, the Guardian has posed all of these #questions to #Buckingham Palace. The responses boil down to “ask someone else”, “work it out for yourself”, or simply “you have no right to know”. We beg to differ.
Obituaries of #Queen Elizabeth II uniformly applauded her calm stewardship of the realm, or her supposed non-interference in #British #politics. None mentioned another hallmark of her reign: entrenched secrecy, which has given rise to a #culture in which the..."