Her Majesty is price a fairly penny with Forbes estimating her web price to be £427million. A big quantity of her wealth stems from her unbelievable property empire which holds roughly 116,000 hectares of land within the UK. Past her quite a few palaces and a stately houses, the Queen additionally owns half of the UK’s shorelines and a number of the nation’s most well-known land marks together with Trafalgar Sq. and the Tower of London.
A few of these, together with the Sandringham and Balmoral estates, she owns privately. Nonetheless, others she holds by means of the Crown Property. The Crown Property belongs to the reigning monarch throughout their reign. Nonetheless, it isn’t their personal property – it can’t be bought by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.
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Whereas the lion’s share of the Crown Property’s earnings are given to the British Authorities, 25 per cent of its earnings are given again to the Queen and the Royal Household as a part of the Sovereign Grant.
This meant Her Majesty and her household took house £67.3 million in 2020/21. In line with the Land Registry in 2019, the Crown owns a complete of seven,936 plots in England and Wales – we have taken a have a look at a number of the extra uncommon properties within the Queen’s portfolio.
McDonald’s
Imagine it or not, the Queen is definitely the owner of a McDonald’s. Situated on the sting of Oxfordshire, the restaurant is a mere one and a half hour drive from Central London. With leather-based sofas and desk service, it’s match for a Queen.
The McDonald’s department is a part of Banbury Gateway Procuring Park which additionally has Starbucks, Marks & Spencer, Subsequent, and Primark. The actual department of McDonald’s sits on land that types a part of the Crown Property, which belongs to the reigning monarch – presently Queen Elizabeth II.
It’s not the primary time a McDonald’s has ended up on land owned by the Queen. She used to personal a department on the Bathtub Highway Retail Park in Slough, however bought the land for £177million in 2016.
Public bathrooms
A lot of the land the Queen owns by means of the Crown Property is used for retail, and one in all her most useful plots is Regent Avenue within the West Finish. Her Majesty owns the complete road in addition to a lot of the encompassing space.
Which means in addition to being landlord to the entire outlets on Regent Avenue, the Queen additionally owns the general public bathrooms. Whereas they’re most likely not fairly as glamorous because the bathrooms in Buckingham Palace, for those who go to those loos your technically utilizing the Queen’s bathrooms…
A part of the M6
The Queen’s property types a part of the M6 motorway close to Lancaster. As a part of this, she has possession of a part of the carriageway in addition to the motorway providers space at Forton providers.
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