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The Queen owns 6.6 billion acres of land, and they work hard to preserve the status quo with the help of exemptions to public scrutiny laws. A rather large elep
by truckerbill 5y ago
The Queen owns 6.6 billion acres of land, and they work hard to preserve the status quo with the help of exemptions to public scrutiny laws. A rather large elephant in the room when it comes to issues of class and meritocracy.
- Brakenshire 5y agoThere are 36 billion acres of land on the planet, there is no way the Queen owns 1/6th of it. More details here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15996/does-queen-elizabeth-ii-own-6-600-million-acres-of-land https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15996/does-quee...
- truckerbill 5y agoThanks for clarifying. I hadn’t thought to check that figure. Looks to be 2.5 billion ‘in name only’. People should also look into the crown estate which is worth billions and the Royals directly receive 25% of the income. I think the spirit of the original point still stands. https://www.dw.com/en/the-crown-estate-the-mysterious-property-empire-behind-queen-elizabeth-ii/a-57821897 https://www.dw.com/en/the-crown-estate-the-mysterious-proper...
- Brakenshire 5y agoThat’s interesting, but it only applies to the Crown Estate organisation particular to the UK, so only 0.06 billion acres. The other organisations linked to the Crown are separate legal bodies with other rules (and often just equivalent to the national government).
- peteretep 5y agoNo, the Crown does. Liz Windsor’s personal wealth is (probably) closer to £300m