> if you get one stupid person in as king they could sell everything off Thats the point, its not trivial to sell it off, because it was set up to counteract a

> if you get one stupid person in as king they could sell everything off Thats the point, its not trivial to sell it off, because it was set up to counteract a fooling king in exchange for a stipend. This system was explicitly designed to take an asset from the crown and place it in trust so that the king could get a steady income, ostensibly from assets that had unpredictable income. Thus the crown estate was born, which has a bunch of rules, most notably about taking on debt.