Several days ago, the chief executive of the Duchy of Cornwall made a big announcement. The duchy plans to “sell off” a fifth of their real estate holdings and turn that money into affordable housing and environmentally-friendly housing. This is Prince William’s big scheme for the ancient duchy – liquidating assets, shuffling the money around and hoping that no one ever mentions the word “audit.” Unsurprisingly, this big announcement was met with a collective shrug – not even Buckingham Palace seemed to care, and King Charles was the one who transformed the duchy into what it is today. William is ripping apart his father’s legacy, as well as the legacy Prince George will one day inherit. But I think the collective shrug had more to do with William’s lengthy history of overpromising and underdelivering – people simply don’t believe that he’s going to oversee some huge changes. Well, royalists are big mad that William’s big duchy news was barely a 24-hour story. So Richard Eden is now trying to convince us that William’s duchy news “spells disaster for Harry and Meghan’s future.” Pitiful.
Often characterised as ‘work-shy’ and reluctant to undertake the vast number of engagements carried out by members of the Royal Family decades his senior, Prince William will have surprised some people with one particular piece of news this week.
Not his unfettered celebrations last night in Istanbul with some of his oldest friends – as Aston Villa, the football team he so passionately supports, won the Europa League, their first major trophy in 30 years. No, it was the announcement that the heir to the throne would sell off a fifth of the Duchy of Cornwall, the £1billion estate which he inherited after his father became King in 2022. The sell-off will happen over the next ten years, as William plans to invest £500million in tackling the crises in nature and housing.
…No one will have read William’s announcement this week more closely than the Duke of Sussex, who was always envious of his brother’s position of heir to the Duchy of Cornwall and future king.
Prince Harry and Meghan quit official duties to seek a fortune across the Atlantic before attacking the Royal Family at every opportunity. Despite this, King Charles has declined to take any action against his son and daughter-in-law.
He has allowed Harry to retain his position, fifth in the line of succession. He has also permitted the pair to keep their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, even though they regularly use them in their commercial activities, in apparent defiance of the agreement made with the late Queen Elizabeth at the ‘Sandringham summit’ in 2020.
Even more generously, the King has allowed Harry to remain a Counsellor of State, meaning that he could, in theory at least, stand in for the monarch if Charles was unable to carry out his duties because of illness.
‘William will take a much harder line with Harry and Meghan when he’s king,’ predicts one of his friends, who declines to spell out exactly what that will mean for the California-based couple.
What we can deduce from this week’s radical announcement about the Duchy of Cornwall – as well as his intense display of emotion at the Aston Villa game in Istanbul – is that William will be different. And that whatever action he takes against the Sussexes, it will be dramatic.
Could it be that Prince William is also overpromising on the Sussexes? For years, “sources close to William” have insisted that William will punish and destroy Harry and Meghan, he’ll take away their titles, he’ll order them to stop making money, he’ll strip them of their Montecito mansion!! And like everything else, William can’t deliver on his promises. He runs away and hides whenever Harry is in town. He hides behind unnamed sources and palace insiders. He gets his henchmen to do his half-assed dirty work. Anyway, I have no idea what William’s duchy news has to do with Harry & Meghan, but this is the only way the left-behinds can make news anymore. “Harry was paying attention to William’s announcement, we swear! Harry is worried!”
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Eden making no sense as usual.
William cannot remove Harry and his children from the line of succession. He legally can not. Nor can he remove their titles.
Harry never wanted the duchy or the throne, even though Charles had him doing the work instead of William
Why isn’t eden, and parliament, questioning and overseeing what william is doing with property that doesn’t belong to him personally?
Indeed. Eden is spewing nonsense, as usual. QEII actually gave the go-ahead for H&M to pursue their own charitable interests AND earn an income as ‘the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’. They agreed to not use their legally retained HRHs publicly, which they don’t. There’s sod all William can do about it.
What in the name of mouldy cottages does this have to do with Harry & Meghan???!
Gotta sell those clicks somehow! And bonus points with the big snooze for the fanfic of Harry jealousy.
I have a question about the sale of those properties… I noticed that he’s selling them off ‘over the next 10 years’. Does that mean he can’t/won’t do anything about homelessness and nature until 10 years from now???
Wasn’t Harry’s response to William and Kate having a kid, great so now I’m further away from the throne? That doesn’t sound like someone that was always jealous of their brother’s position.
Like with everything else they conflate what William is doing, with what Harry is doing. Harry’s not paying close attention to Williams pronouncements, and he’s not worried about what plans his brother has for him when he becomes King.
Harry and Meghan aren’t constantly attacking the Royal family. Meghan has not mentioned them in years, and they’re so desperate for her to come back to the UK they’re literally trying to frame a layover in London as her returning for a secret visit. Also, people are not stupid they are not using their titles for commercial ventures people just know their titles.
They’re going to be so disappointed when William is King, and like with everything else they get no payoff from the supposed punishment that’s coming to Harry and Meghan.
Their full titles complete with their HRHs are used by other states because they all know that is the correct thing to do.
Harry said in his book he saw the royal business plan and wanted nothing to do with it. Harry also said in interviews before Meg that he wanted out. Harry doesn’t give a rats ass about the dutchy and what Peg is or isn’t doing with it!. Get over the loss of the Charismatic and kind and giving Harry. You got what you wanted now live with the incandescent and inept rage monster that brings you absolutely nothing.
The suggestion that Harry was always jealous of William’s position is so insane that it’s just laughable. Harry has mad it clear many times that he absolutely would not want to be where William is.
This is one of the most pathetic reaching I have ever seen. Surely he pulled a muscle with this nonsense.
He’s definitely pulled something!
I found too difficult to read to the end, I can’t stand the nonsense. Eden doesn’t seem to know anything else.
“ …No one will have read William’s announcement this week more closely than the Duke of Sussex, who was always envious of his brother’s position of heir to the Duchy of Cornwall and future king” this is Peggy and Eden’s wet dream and completely delusional.. Prince Harry isn’t focused on Peggy or envying the Duchy and heir position he’s to busy planning Penguin statues for anniversaries and dancing in his paradise with his wife. One thing I’m positive of is that Prince Harry covets absolutely nothing that Peggy has.
I loved Harry’s little giggle in that video when he clearly surprised his wife with The Penguins.
i feel like this is coming direct from william, right? “Harry was always jealous of me!!! harry always wanted the duchy of cornwall! Harry is going to be so mad that I’m selling off parts of the duchy!!!” Meanwhile Harry is commissioning penguin statues and ordering custom cakes for his wife.
(it is revealing in a way though….why would harry care that William is selling off parts of the duchy? The plan is to reinvest that money back into the duchy, so what difference does it make to Harry? It’s not like William is going to pocket the money from those sales……….right???? Did Eden just say a little too much??)
@Becks, I like the way you think — IMO that is totally plausible. Because no matter what these reporters do to kiss W&K’s asses and proclaim he’ll be the best king the UK has ever seen, they know it’s bullsh!t. At the end of the day, they’ve been losing money for years, and they know they picked the wrong team. Buyer’s remorse on steroids.
Eden is clout chasing again– nobody would click on a William article, so gotta bring in the Sussexes for no reason at all. You’d think Eden would try to bury the duchy story, because….
Eden and the tabloids should be focusing on the fact that the duchies aren’t actually William’s to sell, and this looks like a shell game to transfer publicly-held duchy assets to William’s private bank accounts. At the price of £500m invested in energy and housing rental profits on the remaining duchy lands, which will bring in energy income (see: Charles’ offshore windfarms) for many glorious years to come (and it’s probably less than the capital gains savings William doesn’t have to pay on the sales).
All of this. Where the hell are parliament and republicUK?
Why didn’t William just sign his own name to this article? Why go though the trouble of pretending that Eden wrote it when all he did was take dictation?
Oh William, you’ve made it clear that you want Harry to envy you, but he doesn’t. He has everything YOU want: a happy family, a wife that truly adores him, meaning and purpose in his work, and the admiration and respect of people worldwide – in spite of your attempts to sabotage him.
You may have more money than Harry, but he is MUCH richer than you’ll ever be, even as king.
The duchy does not belong to Bill windsor.
Even so, William has a great amount of personal wealth not owned by the crown and gets paid rather handsomely to do as little as possible through his ‘work’. He does have a lot more money than Harry, but he is nowhere near as rich.
The only ‘personal wealth’ bill has is the inheritance from Diana.
Nothing else belongs to him personally. If he’s lining his personal pockets with duchy money it is illegal and will be discovered.
This is what is bothering me. I always thought that the Duchy of Cornwall is to provide the heir with an income but that the heir cannot sell the assets for profit. Is this homeless thing, using the money to provide housing, just a cover up to be able to sell part of the assets? Does anybody such as the crown estate has to to check it and approve the transactions?
The duchy is held in trust and William cannot pocket the money nor can he sell anything without approval.
The taxes he is exempted from is specifically because the duchy is a trust and not a regular corporation or privately owned land.
@Monika there is a board of trustees that are supposed to oversee the duchy. Who knows how much pushback they give to william though.
Yes, the duchy was meant to give the heir an income and I’m not sure how much scrutiny there is on how William spends that income – the past few years its been around 23 million pounds a year. We have no idea how the money is spent because he does not release his finances. I mean charles was able to buy a house for Camilla with it and use duchy income to cover her security etc (and claim that as a work expense, so no taxes.) But I know he could NOT use duchy income to pay his divorce settlement from Diana. So not sure where the line is.
Thanks NIC919 and BECKS1 for clarification. It still leaves me scratching my head. It looks like William and his team briefing the information to check the reaction, if there is any push back.
I still have in my mind that William cannot sell the assets of the Duchy of Cornwall for profit but pretending to sell it to fund a charitable cause might be the way around it.
Harry DGAF and I doubt he even knows about it.
Scooter gets the income from the DOC. He can spend that as he chooses. He can fund trusts for each of the kids out of the earnings on the DOC,, for example. Also pay his taxes on that. The DOC probably doesn’t pay taxes as it keeps no earnings on the Duchy…but Scooter does. Also, scooter can sell assets in the trust and then buy other property or investment in place of those assets. Again, the earnings also go to Scooter, where taxes will be paid.
No he cannot legally fund trusts for his children with Duchy funds of any kind.
@Jais, co-signed
Bring it, Peggy
His weekly H&M hate article is getting more pathetic and nonsensical.
Is anyone even buying this garbage anymore
I would need someone to explain to me why Harry and Meagan would care what William does with his property? It’s hilarious that they push this deluded narrative that William has any power over them or to do anything to them and he does not. The delusion is strong in these people.
The duchy does not belong to william. It is not his personal property
Property rights are always best considered a bundle of rights, and William owns some of the sticks in the bundle, and others belong to the crown. The income the property earns belongs to him— that $20million + per year is his to spend or save or burn. So yes, he can save it in trusts for his children.
No the income from the duckhy does not belong to him personally. see becks1’s comment about Diana’s settlement.
Charles was not allowed to use funds or income from the duchy for her settlement – because it is not his private income or property.
It really is beyond pathetic at this point. Can I believe for a second that Harry gives a &£@*% about what happens to the Duchy estates? Really? Whilst he enjoys his beautiful life in the sunshine as far as possible away from his deranged and hateful family? I don’t think it’s far from the bottom of his priorities in life right now.
What William wants is to be seen as extremely generous and impactful in his charity projects. He wants Harry’s accomplishments to look SMALL compared to HIS.
Harry has dominated him for a decade when it comes to impactful charities. William has been seething with envy this whole time.
I don’t think I will be able to stomach the lavish praise of the press for William’s “generosity”.
But it could backfire. William and his team will make a fuss about the BIG AMOUNT OF MONEY he will use for his projects… but when people realize that this big amount represents only 20% of the value of the Duchy… and that Prince William is keeping 80%…
The whole story will DRAW ATTENTION TO THE IMMENSE WEALTH of the Heir and of the King.
While people know that they are very rich, that they have palaces… how many know the NUMBERS ? How many know the VALUE of it all ?
If numbers are given, it makes it much more real… and it creates a national conversation… “THAT” conversation is not the one William wants.
I see in the last photo of the story, William is showing his fake-ass “concerned” look, which to me signals he doesn’t give a shit about whatever the other person’s problem is. He’s really not good at a game face, as we know already from all the contemptuous, withering looks he’s given Kate. He is really so bad at being a royal. It’s as if he never had any training at all. And it’s Harry who is the complete royal, from A to Z. Maybe if they trained the boys opposite of what they did (Harry was special and William was the workhorse), then Will might have the ability to be a real king, which he (sadly) does not have now.
Really? Harry is not in line to be Prince of Wales or Duke of Cornwall unless Harry is the rightful heir apparent. All that goes to George. Eden reallu thinks his audience is stupid.
aquarius64, I meant that if William were treated more like Harry (in his duties, not the abuse), he may have become an adequate king. Or maybe Harry is just naturally and overall BETTER than Will is in everything. That’s possible too.
Wow, there’s some serious interpretive dance going on here.
Richard Eden needs to stop eating or drinking before bed whatever it is that makes him dream these ridiculously stupid articles.
@Eurydice LOL!! What a beautiful mental image 😂😂
“Maureen” doing the awkward Elaine dance from Seinfeld, his jowls dripping with rage-induced foam…
Yikes, an image indeed! 😂
While Eden and his henchman have faith in William, they will more than likely be terribly disappointed in this weak lazy man. A man with zero work ethic, a man that is incurious, lacking in charisma ethically challenged. They will all rue the day he becomes their King.
Whatever. I’m sure Harry and Meghan already have their plan in place for when William ascends the throne.
This is so funny.
“….-as well as his tense display of emotions at the Aston Villa game in Istanbul- is that William will be different….”
So William will show his emotions more often. I am wondering who William is copying here.
However I am expecting now William to jump up and down to express his joy during his coronation but I am not sure if William will shed a tear at his father’s funeral.
Ok, I know this is Tinfoil Tiara territory, but I swear I can’t help feeling BillyIdle is setting himself up to either quiet-quit or actually abdicate.
He keeps making these moves away from any work at all as a “royal”, let alone fulfillment of his role as the Monarch.
He doesn’t want to live in any royal palace or castle. He doesn’t want to continue the pageantry or do charity work. He doesn’t want to be large R royal, just “small r.” He doesn’t want to preside over a family that does the work either; he wants to “slim down” the Firm, even though it’s already emaciated. He doesn’t want to travel except for private holidays. He doesn’t want to be anywhere near his own wife.
Now he’s openly making a move to transfer a half BILLION pounds from the Duchy to… somewhere he can “invest” it? What’s to stop him from just keeping the lion’s share?
I honestly think if he didn’t have a raging need to compete with his brother, he would have flat walked away years ago.
I don’t think it’s tin foil territory at all. Harry has flat out said in an interview that no one wants the top job. And he’s behaving in no way that would indicate that he plans on going all in and topping his grandmother, or his father’s reign. He’s alienating or has alienated the family members that could help with the workload (Sussexes/York daughters), and has telegraphed as you pointed out that he plans to do even less than he’s doing now.
His plan was clearly, I will be King, I will control all the money, and I’ll make everyone else do the work for me. For various reasons that’s not going to work now, so he’s just like whatever. I think what he’s actually doing now is testing how far he can go before there is significant public and establishment outcry.
I had that same thought at first, that he wants to take the money and run. Since he and his wife have no visible talent or charisma they’ll need to have some way to finance their future. Or he could decide to pay off Waity and her family and just disappear to someplace. The other option could be he’s looking to bribe people to not cooperate with Harry and Meghan. Look at how the oligarchs operate over here. They basically buy the government officials they need.
I don’t think he’s going anywhere. He knows he would not survive a world where he doesn’t have power, authority, taxpayer funded security, and tabloids hacks in his back pocket. One where he cannot use his unearned position to go after his brother and SIL in every way possible.
if he walked away? We’d finally get chapter and verse about what would make our eyes bleed.
Does he know that though? (that he would not survive etc.) Does he have the self awareness to know that?
IMO, yes he does recognize it. He knows that if he didn’t have his unearned position, he wouldn’t have been able to bully a publication into closure. Or bully the English press into covering up the Rose affair. The Scottish journalist continuing to goad him about the “super injunction” not covering Scotland should have made it clear to him.
Bill CRAVES the power of the unearned position. Bill is an autocrat in the making, but he cannot have that without the govt position. His has much in common with dumpster fire.
Agree. I think he’s hoping his father lives to be 95 but he’s definitely not going to abdicate. The actually required duties are slim— the rest is PR he doesn’t have to do, and there might be consequences to skipping the PR events, but I don’t think he believes the monarchy will be eliminated in his lifetime so he doesn’t care.
So i think the reporting around this is very deliberately murky. he plans to sell of a fifth of the duchy’s holdings – the duchy is valued around 1 billion, maybe 1.2, so a fifth of that isn’t 500 million. He plans to INVEST 500 million in homelessness initiatives etc. The first article about this mentioned donations and things like that. So the 500 million isn’t coming just from the duchy sales. It’s probably coming from Middle East billionaires and the like (remember his trip to Saudi Arabia this year?)
So the reporting is trying to act like he’s going to sell these assets and then put the money directly into philanthropic endeavors but its not clear that’s actually the plan.
Eden is saying : William is still fixated on Harry and Meghan and I am too.
How pathetic is William? A supposedly “big” announcement is 90% focused on Harry instead. I cannot imagine being such a failure that every. single. thing. you do turns into an article about your brother.
I didn’t read the article the other day. So this sell off is supposed to happen over the course of ten years? And. he’s going to …. what, exactly? Didn’t we read not too long ago that he was building some affordable housing on duchy land? Did that ever get finished? People moved in yet? What’s his deal with ten years, anyway? Is it like trump’s two weeks? Or 30 days (he’s fond of both)? Is it more that William thinks people will forget what he’s promised over the course of ten years. He’s about halfway through with earths*t, I expect him to give up pretty soon.
Basically, he’s selling off George’s inheritance. Which, fine, George will be fine. But the long-running excuse for primogeniture has always been keeping the land in one piece and not selling it off piecemeal amongst the generations. Huh.
This Eden article reminds me of the Pepe Silvia meme with Charlie in “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” and his crazy chart.
The dots do not connect, Maureen.
William will never give up the job of king (though he will never DO that job) because he likes all the wonderful stuff that comes with the crown (and we all know what that stuff is). So he will lackadaisically (I love that word) “do” his job in his own partial, inadequate way that he calls “impactful” (and others call “half-assed”) until either he dies or is kicked out. A sighting of William in public will be as rare as sightings of UFO’s. That’s my prediction.
The word I really want to add is “perfunctory.” That is the way that William will always do any real job. For playtime (sports/women) I’d say wholeheartedly, fanatically, fiercely (the last 2 bc he’s a maniac).
Imagine to flogg off a big chunk of royal silverware, and you need your little brother to make it into the news. Pathetic.