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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

UKs richest family? But not the King? 🤔

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Nope, not the King. He might have a lot of stuff, but quite a lot of that is basically unsellable. So his crown might be worth a gazillion, but parliament would probably interfere if he tried to sell it off. And it would be an issue what is actually his to sell and what is really owned by the state.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

Much of it is owned by the Crown Estate. Which is technically owned by the current monarch, but it's not their personal property.

All sounds like a scam to me to prevent inheritance taxes scooping off a chunk every time one of them carks it.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

All the revenue that the Crown Estate generates is given directly to the UK government to use, so they get plenty of tax from it already. ~$400 million in 2022 for example.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The british royal family are a bit like a church, Not that rich on paper but buffalo buffalo buffalo owning so many assets all over the world that if you did the legwork to put it all together they might turn out to be richer than the richest oligarchs.

[-] corus_kt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I need a better linguist to ELI5 buffaloes

Or is this just bully bully bully

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] corus_kt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As mentioned the sentence looks unrelated to bison and/or the city, leaving the interpretation to be 'bully intimidate bully' which sounds jank

Am I just overanalyzing a phrase meant to be a joke

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The king is worth at around $700 million.

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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