Royal Legacy: How the royal family have made, spent and passed on their wealth
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Report of the Select Committee on the Civil List, 1971
Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Duchy of Cornwall, 2013
Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, 2006
Sovereign Grant Bill, House of Commons Research Paper, July 2011
Memorandum of Understanding on Royal Taxation 1993
Memorandum of Understanding on Royal Taxation 2013
Report by Sir Michael Peat and Edmund Lawson QC to HRH The Prince of Wales [on the collapse of the Paul Burrell trial] 2003
NOTES
PROLOGUE
1 The Mail on Sunday 19 January 2014
2 The Times 20 January 2014
3 The Sunday Times 19 January 2014
4 Campbell, Alastair The Alastair Campbell Diaries Vol III Hutchison, 2011, entry for 22 October 1999
5 The Guardian 17 February 2014
6 Hardman, Robert Our Queen Hutchinson, 2011 p.110
7 Press Trust of India 19 January 2014
8 The Daily Mail 1 February 2014
9 The Daily Mail 20 January 2014
CHAPTER ONE
THE QUEEN’S TRUE WORTH - 2014
1 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996 p.33
2 Crawford, Marion The Little Princesses Saint Martin’s Press, 2002 p.26
3 Bradford, p.39
4 Pimlott, Ben The Queen HarperCollins, 1996, p.423
5 Lacey, Robert Majesty Hutchison, 1978, p.328
6 The Daily Telegraph 10 June 1971
7 Nicolson, Harold George V Constable, 1952, p.367
8 Mail on Sunday, Royal Rich Report Associated Newspapers, 2001, p. 14
9 Courtney, Nicholas The Queen’s Stamps Methuen, 2004, p.308
10 Royal Rich Report pp. 11-17
11 The Guardian 30 May 2002
12 The Sunday Times 4 December 2011
13 The Sunday Times Rich List 2011
14 Blair, Tony A Journey Hutchinson, 2010, p. 149
15 Royal Rich Report p. 17
16 Hall, Phillip Royal Fortune Bloomsbury, 1992, p. 179
17 ibid, p. 151
18 Lacey, Robert Royal Little Brown, 2002, p.392
19 The Daily Telegraph 25 July 2004
20 Temple, Jon Living off the State Progressbooks, 2008, p.30
21 Balmoral Castle official website
22 Blair, pp.148-9
23 Hall, p.164
CHAPTER TWO
EDWARD THE CARESSER – 1901-1910
1 The Daily Telegraph 10 June, 1971
2 Campbell, Alastair The Alastair Campbell Diaries Vol III entry for 16 March 2001 Hutchison, 2011
3 Magnus, Philip Edward VII Penguin, 1964, p.246
4 Allfrey, Anthony Edward VII and his Jewish Court Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991, p.24
5 Ridley, Jane Bertie – The Life of Edward VII Vintage, 2013, p.317
6 Bahlman, Dudley (ed) The Diary of Sir Edward Hamilton 1972 entry for 12 April 1896, p.324 [by permission of Oxford University Press]
7 ibid, entry for 21 December 1902, p.428
8 The National Archives NA- T168/7 Hamilton letter dated 11 June 1904, p.451
9 ibid, Hamilton 29 April 1904
10 NA T168/71
11 Ridley, p. 335
12 Cannadine, David The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy Penguin, 2005 p.349
13 Bahlman, diary entry of Hamilton 7 November 1902 p.427 [by permission of OUP]
14 Magnus, Philip Edward VII Penguin, 1964, p.357
15 Heffer, Simon Power and Place Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, p.67
16 Bahlman, Hamilton diaries 7 May 1901, p.406 [by permission of OUP]
17 ibid. entry for 1 June 1904, p.452
18 Ridley, p.335
19 Allfrey, Anthony Edward VII and his Jewish Court Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991, p.247
20 Lacey, Robert Royal Little Brown, 2002, p.236
21 Hall, Phillip Royal Fortune Bloomsbury, 1992 p. 12
22 NA T160/631
23 Hamilton Diaries entry for 1 July 1889 [by permission of OUP]
24 NA T168/52
25 Dimbleby, Jonathan The Prince of Wales Warner Books, 1994, p.293
26 NA T171/338
27 In his recent biography Victoria: A Life, Atlantic Books, 2014, p.341 A.N. Wilson argues that the bulk of her private wealth derived from the reorganised revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster
28 NA T326 1327
29 Magnus p.68
30 Hobhouse, Sir Charles Inside Asquith’s Cabinet John Murray, 1977, p.59
31 Hamilton diary entry for 2 March 1894 [by permission of OUP]
32 Daunton, Martin (ed) Charity, Welfare and Self-Interest in Britain, UCL Press, p. 138
33 Hobhouse diary entry for 30 June 1910, p.59
34 Rappoport, Helen Queen Victoria ABC-Clio, 2003, pp.142-3
35 Van der Kiste, John Queen Victoria’s Children History Press, 2009, p. 173
36 Pope-Hennessy, James Queen Mary George Allen & Unwin, 1959, p.540
CHAPTER THREE
MARY’S BAD BROTHER – 1910-1922
1 Heffer, Simon Power and Place Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, p.67
2 Menkes, Suzy The Royal Jewels Granada, 1985, p.69 (the story of the Cambridge jewels is drawn largely from this account)
3 Vickers, Hugo Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Random House, 2006, p.70
4 Eade, Philip Young Prince Philip HarperCollins, 2011, p.22
5 Rhodes James, Robert Chips – The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967, p.241 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
6 Evening News 23 October 1978
7 ibid.
8 Hoey, Brian Mountbatten Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994, p.36
CHAPTER FOUR
THE PRINCES AT WAR – 1936-1945
1 Ziegler, Philip King Edward VIII HarperCollins, 1990, p.240
2 Shawcross, William Queen Elizabeth Macmillan, 2009, p.308
3 Ziegler op cit p.247
4 Hall, Phillip Royal Fortune Bloomsbury, 1992, p.44-5
5 Ziegler p.247
6 Shawcross p.358
7 Ziegler p.259
8 NA T171/338
9 NA T171/338
10 Shawcross p.368
11 Victor Cazelet in Rhode James, Robert Victor Cazelet Hamish Hamilton, 1976, p.181
12 Sebba, Anne That Woman Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011, p.169
13 Ziegler p.326
14 ibid p.328
15 Bloch, Michael, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor Bantam Press, 1988, p.67
16 Bryan, J & Murphy, Charles The Windsor Story William Morrow, 1979, p.298
17 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.70
18 Bloch p.47
19 Ziegler p.327
20 Bryan and Murphy, pp.333-4
21 Shawcross p.380
22 Marr, Andrew The Diamond Queen Macmillan, 2011, pp.49-50
23 Shawcross p.551
24 Ziegler p.484
25 Freda Dudley Ward in Vickers, Hugo, Behind Closed Doors Hutchison, 2011, p.283
26 Rhodes James, Robert Chips – The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967, pp.43-4 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
27 Watson, Sophia Marina Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p. 120
28 Vickers, Hugo Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Random House, 2006, p.230
29 Rhodes James p. 159 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
30 ibid p.37
31 ibid p.329
32 Warwick, Christopher George and Marina Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988, p.72
33 Mail on Sunday Royal Rich Report Associated Newspapers, 2001, p.85
34 ibid p.85
35 Rhodes James, op cit, p.396 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
CHAPTER FIVE
THE PRINCESSES OF NOTHING – 1948-1952
1 Pope-Hennessy, James Queen Mary George Allen & Unwin, 1959, p.252
2 ibid, p.266 + p
.216
3 Watson, Sophia Marina Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p.68
4 Princess Marie Louise My Memories of Six Reigns Evans Brothers, 1979, p.36
5 Hicks, Pamela Daughters of Empire Phoenix, 2013, p. 161
6 Rappoport, Helen Queen Victoria ABC-Clio, 2003, p. 187
7 Princess Marie Louise p.37
8 Rhodes James, Robert Chips – The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon Weidenfeld & Nicolson p.422
9 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.96
10 Princess Marie Louise p.269
11 Field, Leslie The Queen’s Jewels Guild, 1987 p.137
CHAPTER SIX
GEORGE AND MARY’S LEGACY – 1952-1953
1 Bradford, Sarah George VI Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, p.183
2 Heald, Tim Princess Margaret Orion, 2008, p.88
3 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.162
4 Daily Telegraph 12 May 2002
5 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.482
6 Hardman, Robert Our Queen Hutchinson, 2011, p.86
7 Bradford, Sarah George VI Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, p.399
8 Field, Leslie The Queen’s Jewels Guild, 1987, p.104
9 Pope-Hennessy, James Queen Mary George Allen & Unwin, 1959, p.619
10 ibid, p. 620
11 Ziegler, Philip King Edward VIII HarperCollins, 1990, p.537
12 Pope Hennessy, p.621
13 Rhodes James, Robert Chips – The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967 p.472-3 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
14 Princess Marie Louise My Memories of Six Reigns Evans Brothers, 1979, p.306
15 Field p.16
16 ibid, pp.72-4
17 Menkes, Suzy The Royal Jewels Granada, 1985, p.52
18 ibid, p53
19 Pope Hennessy, p.525
20 NA T171/331
21 NA T171 329
22 Courtney, Nicholas The Queen’s Stamps Methuen, 2004, p. 161
23 ibid, p.151
24 Menkes p.76
25 Dimbleby, Jonathan The Prince of Wales Warner Books, 1994, p.17
26 Pope Hennessy, p.525
27 Field, p.16
28 Roberts, Hugh The Queen’s Diamonds Royal Collection Publications, 2012 see Bibliography, Unpublished Sources
29 ibid, p.93
30 Bradford, Sarah Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.183. Roberts, op cit p.113, confirms that Queen Mary left the majority of her jewellery to the Queen, with a few items also bequeathed to the Queen Mother
31 Mail on Sunday Royal Rich Report Associated Newspapers, 2001, pp. 11-17
32 Field, p. 143
33 Christie’s auction of Prince Henry’s property 26/27 January 2006
34 Burrell, Paul A Royal Duty Thorndike, 2004, p.582
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE DUCHESS AND THE COUNTESS – 1960-1968
1 Hoey, Brian Mountbatten Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994, p.104
2 Peter Russell Butler Royal Hutchison, 1982, p.70
3 ibid, p.80
4 Watson, Sophia Marina Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p.201
5 Russell p.32
6 Watson p.213
7 Payn, Graham and Morley, Sheridan (ed) The Noel Coward Diaries Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, p.667
8 King, Stella Princess Marina Cassel, 1969, p.218
9 Watson p.237
10 Russell p.50
11 Menkes, Suzy The Royal Jewels Granada, 1985 p.126
12 Field, Leslie The Queen’s Jewels Guild, 1987 p.37 + p.139
13 Mail on Sunday Royal Rich Report Associated Newspapers, 2001, p.85
14 Quotation from The Sunday Times quoted in The Mail on Sunday 5 January 2014
15 Mail on Sunday 5 January 2014
16 Vickers, Hugo Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Random House, 2006, p.394/396
17 Ziegler, Philip Mountbatten HarperCollins, 1988 p.571
18 ibid, p.67
19 Hoey, Brian Mountbatten Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994, p.85
20 ibid, p.2. Information from this section based on Hoey, op cit
21 Marr, Andrew The Diamond Queen Macmillan, 2011, p.76
22 Hoey, p.102
23 Knatchbull, Timothy From a Deep Blue Sky Random House, 2009, p. 167
24 ibid, p.246
25 ibid, p.200
CHAPTER EIGHT
THE BURIAL OF BAD NEWS – 1969-1971
1 The National Archives NA T326/1325
2 Ziegler, Philip Edward Heath HarperCollins, 2010, p.25
3 ibid, p.319
4 ibid, p.319
5 Pimlott, Ben The Queen HarperCollins, 1996, p.399
6 Ziegler, p.320
7 NA T326/1325
8 Pimlott, p.402
9 NA T326/1312 [author's italics]
10 Lacey, Robert Royal Little Brown, 2002, p.234
11 Crossman, Richard The Crossman Diaries Vol III Hamish Hamilton, 1977, p.723
12 ibid, p.724
13 NA T326/1321
14 Daily Telegraph 31 May 2002
15 NA T326/1321
16 NA T326/1321
17 Peter Hennessy The Secret World of Whitehall BBC-4 Television 30 March 2011
18 NA T326/1321 [author’s italics]
19 NA T326/1328
20 NA T326/1328
21 NA T326/1330
22 NA T326/1329
23 NA T326/1329
24 Treasury note dated 6 May 1971 NA T326/1312
25 Letter to LJ Taylor 1 September 1970 NA T326/1310
26 Letter from Barber to Whitelaw 20 September 1971 NA T326/1329
27 Public Accounts Committee HC475
28 Paper headed Duchy of Cornwall and the Prince of Wales T326/1312
29 NA T326/1325
30 Oral evidence of E.R. Wheeler to the Select Committee on the Civil List 1971 on 21 July, minute 531, 1971 Parliamentary Papers 1970-71 Vol 24
31 NA T326/1327
32 NA T326/1328
33 NA T326/1329
34 NA T326/1316
35 NA T326/1325 Treasury note of 11 June 1971 meeting with Cobbold et al
36 NA T326/1326 memo 25 June 1971 from Michael Adeane to Russell Wills
37 Oral evidence of Adeane to Select Committee on the Civil List 1971 on 29 June 1971, minute 227 Parliamentary Papers 1971-72 Vol 24
38 NA T326/13 memo dated 22 October 1971
39 Hansard, debate House of Commons 14 December 1971
40 NA T326/1329 dated 20 September 1971 Barber-PM marked “confidential”
41 NA T326/1330 dated 12 October 1971
42 NA T326/1330
43 Hamilton, William My Queen and I Quartet Books, 1975, p.44
44 Evidence of Lord Cobbold on 27 July 1971, minute 560 of Parliamentary Papers 1970-71 vol 24
45 Select Committee Report on the Civil List 1971 p.xi
46 NA T326/1328
47 NA T326/1322
48 Hamilton, p.65
49 Financial Times 3 December 1971
50 Hamilton, p.43
51 NA T326/1628
CHAPTER NINE
THE WINDSORS AND THEIR WEALTH – 1972-1986
1 Blackwood, Caroline The Last of the Duchess Picador, 1996, p.7
2 Ziegler, Philip, Mountbatten HarperCollins, 1988, p.680 [originally spoken in the 1972 television broadcast]
3 ibid, p.680
4 Vickers, Hugo Behind Closed Doors, Hutchinson, 2011, p.32 [Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd]
5 Vickers, Hugo Behind Closed Doors, Hutchinson, 2011 p.63
6 ibid, p.98
7 Cannadine, David The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy Penguin, 2005 p.354
8 Bryan, J & Murphy, Charles The Windsor Story William Morrow, 1979, p.402
9 Ziegler, Philip, King Edward VIII HarperCollins, 1990, p.506
10 Cannadine, p.644
11 Ziegler, Philip, King Edward VIII HarperCollins, 1990, p.516
12 Cannadine, p.640
13 ibid, pp.64
2-644
14 Bryan, J & Murphy, Charles The Windsor Story William Morrow, 1979, p.572
15 Vickers, Hugo, Behind Closed Doors Hutchison, 2011, p.356
16 Bloch, Michael, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor Bantam Press, 1988, p.301
17 Vickers Hugo, Behind Closed Doors Hutchison, 2011, p.46
18 ibid, p.58
19 Blackwood, p.6
20 Bryan & Murphy, p.595
21 Sebba, Anne That Woman Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001, p101
22 Rhodes James, Robert Chips – the Diaries of Sir Henry Channon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967, p.43 [granted by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd]
23 Sebba p.103
24 ibid, p.104
25 Vickers p.159
26 Bloch, Michael The Duchess of Windsor Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996, p.281
27 Roberts, Andrew Eminent Churchillians Phoenix, 1994, p.282
28 Sebba, p.242
29 Vickers, p.346
30 Vickers, Hugo (ed) The Unexpurgated Beaton Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, p. 105
31 Vickers Hugo, Behind Closed Doors Hutchison, 2011, p.25
32 Blackwood, p.23
33 Vickers Hugo, Behind Closed Doors Hutchison, 2011, p.58
34 Bloch, p.222
35 Vickers, p.116
36 Vickers, p.124
37 Bloch, p.222
38 Blackwood, p.226
39 Vickers, p.39
40 Bradford, Sarah, Elizabeth William Heinemann, 1996, p.416
41 Ziegler, p. xi
42 Bloch, Michael (ed) Wallis and Edward – Letters 1931-1937 Summit Book, 1986, p.8
43 Blackwood, p.138
CHAPTER TEN
DIANA’S ESTATE OF WAR – 1996-1998
1 The Lawyer 12 August 1998
2 The Lawyer 12 August 1998
3 Brown, Tina Diana Chronicles Century, 2007, p.423
4 The Sunday Times 7 October 1997
5 The Times 27 February 1998
6 The Times 24 November 1997
7 Burrell, Paul A Royal Duty Thorndike, 2004, p.308
8 Naden, Gavan & Riddington, Max Frances: the remarkable story of Princess Diana's mother Michael O’Mara, 2003, pp.222-3
9 The Daily Telegraph 24 October 2002
10 Brown, p.372
11 The Daily Telegraph 7 November 2002
12 The Daily Telegraph 25 October 2002
13 The Daily Telegraph 24 October 2002
14 The Daily Telegraph 3 November 2002
15 The Tatler February 2003
16 The Times 8 February 2003
17 Naden & Riddington p.230
18 The Guardian 25 October 2002
19 Burrell p.383
20 The Daily Telegraph 24 October 2002
21 The Daily Telegraph 3 November 2002
22 Report by Sir Michael Peat and Edmund Lawson QC to HRH The Prince of Wales, 2003, Summary - conclusion 2.125