Inside King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire | Forbes
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- Charles III's official coronation may not occur until May 6, but the new British monarch has already inherited a $25 billion real estate portfolio fit for a king.
When he acceded the throne in September, the 73-year-old sovereign assumed control of a $42 billion empire, much of it in real estate. Forbes scoured property records, annual reports, audits, archives and legislative documents to find all of the king’s new possessions. His holdings span from Buckingham Palace-the official headquarters of the monarchy, which Forbes estimates is worth $4.9 billion-to Highgrove House, a country residence in Gloucestershire that Charles first purchased in 1980 for £865,000 ($3.7 million today,) now valued at $39 million.
Although he has only had the crown for a few weeks, Charles is expected to break with seven generations of tradition and reject Buckingham Palace as his London residence to remain in his current home at Clarence House (estimated value: $72 million.) But he will also reportedly continue to spend some time at Highgrove. That means he’ll have to pay about $740,000 in annual rent to his son William, who succeeded him as Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and now holds Highgrove under the Duchy of Cornwall.
Those properties are part of a vast collection of at least seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 holiday cottages and 14 ancient ruins, per Forbes’ count. Aside from Balmoral Castle in Scotland and Sandringham House in Norfolk, which he inherited from the Queen and now personally owns, none of these opulent residences and historic monuments are directly owned by the King. Most are held by the Crown Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall, institutions held “in right of the Crown” for the duration of his reign. Others are controlled by the monarchy itself “in trust” for his successors and the nation, while another four properties are held by two foundations which the King established when he was Prince of Wales.
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Fun fact: If William the Conqueror had put 1 pound in a bank account making a 3% annual interest rate and made it crown property, Charles would now have 1.8 trillion pounds. And if that bank account had a 4% annual interest rate, that would be 10^16 pounds. That's a 1 with 16 zeros for those that don't know.
Except no bank will allow you to pass your account ownership to anyone else.
Also the first bank in England wasn’t opened until 1650 and this predates even the Bank of England.
But it is an interesting demonstration of the power of compound interest.
What about 800,000 kids living in poverty and couldn't afford canteen meals all over UK. So will 1% cut from his total asset annually helps...bla bla bla
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It ain't the king making laws at Westminister. We also need to be reminded of his charity before he was a Prince. The crown represents pride, identity and unity as a society. So it's only the countries with traditional rulers who's people understand what it means to them not those who don't actually know their roles like the USA since the last rulers were of the red Indies. You can't be more interested in Charles' wealth moreso his inheritance as a point forgetting all his past contributions to humanity. I sense envy by the media too.
Doesn't make him a better person.
Poohead.
90 years sealed, and I thought I had estate troubles! Transparency!
After "training for the position"😄😄😄😄😂 nice one Forbes
I heard that 😂
William´s trip to Belize, Jamaica and Bahamas was NOT a holiday. They were State visits.
Money doesnt make you a faithful loving husband; nor a better king !
He has turned out to be a faithful King
I actually expected more…
I’m sure there’s a lot more not mentioned/unknown…
There used to be more, for example, the Monarch used to own the houses of parliament before the Queen gave it to the public as a symbol of giving power to the people.
Furthermore, the monarch used to essentially control the country, and therefore arguably 'own' it. This, however, is a modern monarchy and so there have been many cutbacks.
Slave and colonial money. Looted wealth.
@@thetruth286 lol 😂 na I don’t think so buddy…
Conspiracy, only because you think there is more does not make it real
African property 😢
Stolen goods
what African property did they steal? you just repeat tired old tropes.
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 Look at their colonial history and where they looted the wealth from.
@@NadidLinchestein ever heard of the industrial revolution, invented in Britain and making her rich.....not by stealing some statue from Africa
Uk property the British monarchy has no African holdings
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 They pillaged gold, diamonds, resources of all kind. Their slave market was worth billions. Go to school, chump or check your dark history.
Inheritance tax shouldn’t be a thing! You don’t buy those assets, it’s being passed to you for free!
And the people of England cannot afford heat...
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@@farrukhahmad453 You should apply for a job with King Charles, lol
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A lot of misleading claims in this piece. You show the Crown Jewels when talking about personal belongings of the monarch, which they are not. You describe William and Kate’s trip to the Caribbean as a ‘vacation’ when it was an official visit, they were working. I expected better journalism from Forbes . But I guess you’re just looking for clickbait by adding up a lot of random numbers to give you a big billion in the headline.
official visits balooney just word soup for free holidays
@@cloud6862 Rubbish...Ever heard of our Commonwealth? Which countries apply to join?
It should be given to poorest people
Jamaican Need Their Wealth Back
King Charles is considered a peasant compared to the wealth of the Sultan of Brunei and the King of Thailand
Thailand has a King!???! 😂and I've never even heard of Brunei! 😂
@@dylanworthington1350 both yes. Search it here on TH-cam or google it
@@wahtusy3519 Meh I'll pass
It should be noted that they only own all this land and assets because previous monarchs stole it from the people
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Probably so but the question becomes when will they give it back to the freezing, starving people in England and "the commonwealth?"
How did they amass that wealth? Was it through hardwork?
It was stolen
Slaughtering and subjugating peasants on horseback for centuries isn't easy.
@@motsepethompson1118 nope
Yes
Slave and colonial money. Looted wealth.
Good for him. His investments are businesses and lands that employ and provide jobs for thousand of people.
Yup and all his ancestors had to do was rape steal and pillage, nothing great or miraculous at all
yeah right
Slave and colonial money. Looted wealth.
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I feel the full amount isn’t disclosed
And so that is what you call working Royals that it cost that money so much of it for them to travel to what four Islands and then you see videos of them dancing and having a great time and a few speeches and then mingling with the people and the hierarchies and having private planes and all that that's what you call a working Royal really
Isn’t this the definition of I’ll gotten gains?
Has he payed his inheritence tax?
Nope
Remember nobody is above the law
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So why don't they ever pay for anything themselves. They have the means to.
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They do. They paid for all of PW’s wedding.
That's how they stay rich
Fantastic ...
Strip them of their wealth and punish them for aggression against humanity.
Indeed we should but of course that will never happen. Evil is protected while good is suppressed.
Aggression against humanity from a symbolic figerhead ? Parliament declears war not the monarch.
@@kennethadler7380 ignore them, they dont even know how the UK works
And how will you do that? Gonna protest? the police would just drag you to prison😂😂😂😂
@@jonasduncan8476 pity on you people.. who are still considered as slaves to the so called King
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So and wipe the feet of your new Queen Camilla..🤣🤣🤣
Y’all grossly underestimate what the royals are worth
Most of the wealth are stolen if not all.
who cares
Almost all of them, they have no capability of their own just ruling over the weak and destroying their societies.
No most of it is in uk real estate and land
80 percent of thier assets are based in UK my guy
@@kennethadler7380 did you ever learned a term called "Money laundering"?
The monarchy needs to go.. you can't expect English citizens to see people that don't really do anything living in that level of luxury when most people in your country can't find housing or afford food or run their water but for 6 hrs a day.. the monarchy is making the English people hemorrhage money.. about half of the money you spend on the monarchy needs to be redirected even if temporarily to help average working families.. The monarchy needs to take one for the team and use some of those dividends from their side hustles...
British Monarchy is completely intertwined with the UKs and the Commonwealths history the British royal family are the creators of Christianity itself . I'm a Christian Australian a member of the commonwealth and ending Monarchy would be murdering part of my culture which is unacceptable. You obviously must not have known that, So know you know its deeply offensive.
dude everyone knows they came up with the protestant church that doesn't include creating Christianity as a whole the old testament is much older and closer to gilgamesh than britain.. and if you want to talk about offensive lets talk about the word 'seppo' but please keep going and perverting my point..
@@jeffjr84 I haven't ever heard the term seppo personally, so cry me a river its just a name what are you 12 has being called a name made you a perpetual victim jeez how infantile. I said Christianity which originates from the Protestant church enjoy you're semantic hair splitting 😅
King Charles does not personally own these assets. They belong to the crown. If Forbes can't get that right, they need to do better research.
He does own some of it personally
who are the 'crown'
Oh, poor Charles. He lives on profits from 10,000 voyages to Africa to collect slaves many of whom the monarchy delivered to its Caribbean sugar plantation slave colonies. UK treated its slaves so brutally that most died within 3 yrs. So UK had to constantly be bringing in more slaves. Sugar with your tea?
All those estates r inherited
nothing wrong with that
@@LolLol-nn8td i know
Yeah inherited from centuries of colonial rule and savagery. All those wealth should be redistributed to former colonial countries and genocide victims.
keep safe ears majesty's love
Do we get to see the underground dungeons underneath the Buckingham palace to?
Really priceless.
The real question is how did they obtain this wealth? Why do they need that much while most citizens are poor? What is the benefit of accumulating it all as they are not able to take any with them after their death! Its an unfair disgrace!
How did they gain so much wealth?
stealing from other countries obviously
By colonising Asia and Africa and scraping all the resources
By Looting $45T , India alone
@@prafullacpandey yet they are not worth 45 trillion lol
@@foodscrazy9229 most thier worth is based on assets they own in the UK not Africa or asia
AMAZING. 👑
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Hey Charles, give me 80$ please. I am about to get evicted from my Mumbai apartment
Begging family
Yep
it amazes me how many people think they should have this, like they earned it... through benevolence, they earned much of it through the pain, suffering and struggle of others, while the others lived in poverty. I am all for someone getting out in the world and creating a business that employs people and produces a product and therefore makes them wealth, but taking over countries to gain wealth, enslaving people to gain wealth, and giving them a penny for what they make a thousand on much of this wealth was not made in ethical ways. God bless the former queen, she was a wonderful woman, but her sons NO, they are not wonderful people, and the people who wore the crown before her, not so much either. This family in general were a blight on the world, in my honest opinion, and I invite anyone to prove me wrong. In fact, i welcome the conversation.
Cheer up snowflake ❄️ that was centuries ago.
Hi i totally agree with you. Windsors should hold their heads in shame still takeing money off brits that sre struggling . Before some wally starts on about tourism they bring in that isnt money going too the people . We gave them over 102 million last year . Pull the ladder up we are ok . Let the plebs eat cake
We all know that but nobody cares they said it’s in the past can’t do nothing about it..
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
Why don't you just study the whole subject of the British Royal Family?
… and the profits from the Bank of England that go to the Crown?
Billion… that’s a lot of money
Slave and colonial money. Looted wealth.
Charles is the ultimate passive-income haver 😛
Well said.
It is good to be a King.
He never worked in his life
The person don't know england in this moment continue dominate the world....
Wow!! A 260,000thousand dollr holiday
Nothing but the best for these high end ribbon cutters!!
Scissors anyone???😂
Yeah but allot of the queens estates and jewels don’t really belong to him they belong to the people
PM Rishi Sunak is much wealthier than the King Charles III
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He's nickname is Rex Trip now.
The will is sealed for at least ninety years 0:34 that's crazy in (2111) it be unleashed when King George vii child will be on the throne
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Misleading.
How so? Charles could make one phone call and get a private meeting the next day with the US president. No US taxpayer could do that.
They are the leaders of the Commonwealth I've said it a thousands of times
Policy SA9 eh Charlie boy..................
Topic: Parliamentary Monarchy. Is it expensive? VERDICT: FALSE.
Official Speech by King Charles III: “I surrender the “Hereditary revenues” to parliament in exchange of a CIVIL GRANT so that I can do my responsibility as the monarch.”
Historical Background:
Crown estate are the ancestral lands(inheritance) of King George The Mad. These private lands are voluntarily surrender every Succession(coronation/accession) in exchange of civil grant to fund a head of state’s responsibilities as a monarch. In exchange the government technically get the big percentage of the profit. The parliament or government nor the monarch doesn’t own it. BUT once the monarchy is abolish the current monarch(deposed) or his/her heirs can turned it us a private property. This is the reason why King Charles III renewed the contract. The royal family generate a huge amount of money but these profits from the crown estates/Crownlands are divide in to 2. The big part goes to government to fund the social and security welfare of the British people while the smallest percentage(Civil grant) is allocated to the Windsor Dynasty. This is the most good contract ever made by a Georgian King.
Other examples:
Thailand: Crown property
Zulu, South Africa: Ingyoma Trust
Reference: "King Charles III voluntary, surrenders the profit of crown estate"
Long live the king ♥️
For educational purpose only.
The point is Charles could make one phone call and get a meeting with the US president the next day. No US wage slave could do that. The VERDICT is UK monarchy made 10,000 voyages to Africa to collect slaves and wouldn't exist today were it not for profits from its Caribbean sugar plantations where it treated its slaves so badly most died within 3 yrs. So UK had to bring more slaves all the time. Sugar with that tea?
@@susanmullen8648 set ur facts. UK abolish slavery in advance before US did.
at the end it's good to be the king😂❤️
British Royals *has Real estate in United Kingdom*
Indians: *they stole it from India!*
India has not much to steal other than elephants’ dung.
1 billion is enough
Asset rich, cash poor.
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Stolen land smh
The royal family being among the very finest of the nobles, we are comforted that such wealth is safe in their capable hands...
I'm quite certain of how astonishingly quickly it's concentrated goodness would evaporate in mine!
Представьте, что у вас есть такая большая компания, даже после того, как вы ее развалили, ее дочерние компании управляют миром, и мир просто остановился бы, если бы они этого не сделали... это настоящая сила. Спасибо за просмотр в школе и внимание ко мне
Let them eat cake......
Lovely to be rich...just dont miss heaven over it or even over ones own poverty
Далеко ушел от них
Not even close to today's top tier billionaires.
Influence and Power is greater than the top tier billionaires money.
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@@rago8594 and what power does these old stupid monarchs have .?
People even throw eggs at them.
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The empire comes with Hong Kong, so I don't know what is the title even mean
Yes and the rich just keep getting richer whether their royal or not
My King if hearts can you share? U AM homeless in. USA. Love respectfully yours Angel
"that you will never actually own" neither will you by your logic LOL
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This video title is ridiculously misleading... c'mon forbs...
How so? Charles could make one phone call and get a meeting with US president the next day. No US wage slave could do that.
Francis samaga gamank thiyanava anaa aththammaa lasa valasak navi karagana apata durak yanna puluvan anaa thami aththamma thalavila davsthanaya
God save the King👑🇬🇧
Which God are you talking
@@khathutsheloraphala4908Any God that you give your reverence to. Everyone worship their own God. If you worship yourself then your ego is your God.
From what ...I dont get z pt.
Thus, he owns the 500 million and the palaces and jewels are in trust for the family that has the 1900 years in history... how come the royal twins cannot get a flight out of Ottawa Canada. They are entitled for flights paid for...
wow...most of the comments are of the same nature...sounds like a reckoning is coming..
Yes, at some point YT will ask people who post to prove their IQ. It wont help you Ivan
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Officially they say he is worth 772 million dollars then how does he has so much wealth
Poor man
I HOPE HE GIVE IT ALL TO WILLIAM SO CAMILA CAN NOT STE*** AS SHE DID WHAT SHE DID TO DIANA MAY GOD PROTECT WILLIAM AND KATE AND I HOPE AND PRAY HAZ WAKES UP BECAUSE HE NEED TO
lol thailands king is 3 times as rich LMFAO
And yet most people don't even know Thailand has a king?!
@@dylanworthington1350 I do. Fantastic country is Thailand 🇹🇭
@@Fanny_Snuffle Cool but he isn’t known in the west he might be worth more but I doubt he has multiple castles and palaces over a thousand years old and I doubt Bentley would make him a one of kind car that’s reversed for British royalty along with Rolls Royce Aston Martin Jaguar there prestige is untouchable.
@@dylanworthington1350 Thailand’s monarchy predate the British by several thousand years.
@@Fanny_Snuffle I stand corrected, but did Thailand have the largest Empire in human history.
Their empire and fortune is falling go US as we speak
My King
my kingdom's
My love my mind
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Lha nek kke ta onekke babu yahdui sedangke koe naive vara berpikirmi salahku ning ndi ?!!!!!
Old Paka
Less chrles opo yo sing gowo senjatae russia ki akuuu lesss cahrles.
People hate King Charles now right? Because of The Crown
Koe nek ra wani negasi aku posisi oiye wongmu kon angkat kaki seko uripku...wongmu ngei maslah ning uripku sing ratau mbok pahami.bongsomu nyowone mati wes ra urusanku
Good for him. They deserve it.
Cah cilik karo kemegahanmu nyata
Are you sure 25 billion pounds? Those real cash? Sorry but those nothing if you don't use correctly... Frankly i love cash too but they don't make me lose way to deserve Him... just try me if you don't believe, give me some wealthy then what's happening with those wealthy... Belike king David or Solomon. They are great kings so far... someday when he coming, you don't have choice except you must follow him...🌐🇬🇧❤️
they deserved this money, and even more so, Charles has his own business, money is not even taxpayers
Slave and colonial money. Looted wealth.
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He doesnt pay tax
All of that money isn’t his it’s like ye calling himself a billionaire… not really!
It's crazy that even though England ruled over India for 400 years, today 2 Indians are worth more than the monarchy itself. Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani
Forbes knows nothing
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I'm still inquisitive of the motive- the fact that the US despised the crown upon Her Majesty's death alluding more to slavery. So a country without any monarchy should mind on its conflicting human rights. Leave the King and Monarchy matters to the ones who love, pride and believe in them.
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U r a joker 😄😄😄😄😄
Ur words are as meaningless as these monarchs
@@opaul6905 I want do work for you accounts and Tax manager
@@opaul6905 it was the monarchy that led to the existence of modern day UK n the commonwealth
This is so biased, such as calling the official visit to the Caribbean as “Prince William’s Vacation”. It was not a vacation. The point of this video is what? To foster class envy? The King was chosen by God to reign. He’s rich. He should be. Get over it.
Please which God? I need to speak with him too. Because apparently you did.
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You get over with the fact that people throw eggs and spit on him these days. Thats the harsh reality. Come to your senses.
Very soon you will see masses kicking him and the old witch in the public. Wait for that day. 😅😅
@@thetruth286 the pagan ones...pick any of them....he obviously is a pagan