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All good points. A small note though I believe the Queen started paying taxes in exchange for the state’s help rebuilding Windsor caste after the 92 fire. So seems more quid pro quo than something she felt was the right thing to do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Windsor_Castle_fire



Still didn’t pay inheritance tax on her personal wealth though

There are also all the laws the monarch / monarch’s lawyers interfered with e.g. police can’t enter Sandringham Estate without an invite, leaseholders on the Duchy of Cornwall are excluded from buying their freehold


Nobody cares until to revolt. You’re centuries behind any other democracy.


Indeed


Funny how some people down vote facts…




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