Windsor family one of the wealthiest in Britain

With palaces, country residences, land and real estate galore, the Windsor family of Britain are one of the wealthiest in the country, and their royal rule comes as part and parcel of the British establishment.

However, yet another dark side of the royal family has emerged, this time surrounding their personal wealth and investments.

Exposed: Queen's wealth secrets

A report has revealed that Queen Elizabeth lobbied the government to change the law in order to hide her private wealth.

A report by an investigative journalist published in The Guardian newspaper has revealed that Queen Elizabeth lobbied the then Tory government of Edward Heath to change the law, in order to hide her private wealth.

The deal, which was agreed between the governments of Edward Heath and Harold Wilson, allowed the British state to create a state backed shell company, designed to place a veil of secrecy over the Queen's wealth.

Had the amount been leaked, it would have been very embarrassing for the Windsors, with the majority of British people in 1970s living in hardship, as the effects of the oil crisis and unemployment hit hard.

Guardian report: Queen blocked govt. legislation in 1970s

It’s a revelation that’s thrown the British royal family into the spotlight once again for all the wrong reasons: huge riches kept hidden from prying eyes by the Queen herself.

Why then did the British Queen want to hide her enormous wealth from her loyal subjects?

Of course we have to remember that although the story is new, it actually dates, really dates back to the 1970s, just now that the relevant government documents have been released, that's how the Guardian was able to cover the story. At that time, the Queen was very anxious that her private wealth be secret, that people shouldn't know how much she was worth; she was estimated to be the richest woman in the world at the time, although that is no longer the case. But certainly they would have felt at that time, in the 1970s, that the wish for secrecy was justified. But in today's world, it is very different. We expect much greater transparency.

Johnathan Fryer, Lecturer and Author

With the law proposed to Heath passed by his successor Harold Wilson, The Queen's assets were quickly passed into the shell company, hence removing immediate layers of traceable wealth to The Queen and remained in place until at least 2011.

The ability for the Queen to pass such laws comes from an ancient law called the Queen's consent and evidence suggests that this law was used as far back as 1728.

Yet, by applying this law in the 1970s, and even now in modern times, unknown to the public, the law breaks the norm of the monarchy respecting government independence, suggesting the royal family are not as transparent and clear as they are portrayed to be.

Britain, and in particular the royal family, are in fact the polar opposite of what a democracy should be, with an unelected royal family who rule by air and not consent, and a government that has on many occasions won an election, with a minority vote, one has to question just how free Britain really is.

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With the ultra-elites being so readily able to hide their wealth. Does this mean that such acts can be applied to the wider political spectrum? After all, if it's good enough for the goose is good enough for the gander.

There has been quite a lot of, I should put it dismay, in (and) among the British public recently about the way the government has been handing billions of pounds of public money used for PPP in the COVID crisis, and also from the awards of contracts for people for search and trace, for example, Track and Trace. The problem today is that we don't know who exactly is getting the money. We know the amounts of money involved, but there's a great deal of secrecy about how many of these people, or companies linked to individuals, are in the government who all are donors to the ruling conservative party.

Johnathan Fryer, Lecturer and Author

Yet there are some in Britain who have defended the queen, in particular from the biased and pro-British establishment Daily Express newspaper, whose columnist Richard Cate stated that the evidence supplied by The Guardian newspaper is quote hardly compelling and he fails to believe that the Queen conspired with the government to hide her wealth.

Whereas the story is unlikely to rock the popularity of the royal family amongst the hardcore British faithful, the fact that the story has emerged shows that there are people in Britain who are willing to dig up the truth, and seek to expose the royal family for who they really are.

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With Britain at one of its lowest ever points since World War Two, and with COVID-19 tearing the economy and lives apart, as well as the impact of Brexit now being felt in a way Britain would not care to admit, as cries of nationalism and independence echo across the United Kingdom, and the north of Ireland, one can only wonder, just what else the Queen has tried to hide from law as she tries in vain to hold together, not only her estranged family, but her entire country and legacy in the process?

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