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Where the private money that comes out of the private pockets of the royal family comes and came from is a bit of a mystery. Good investments, we have heard rumours of bad investments too, but there had to be money to invest in the first place. The civil list until fairly recently extended to more than just the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, before that it was very generous to quite a few family members.
I remember a story about Queen Victoria getting a very large legacy from a someone and she accepted it, usually the royal family don´t accept gifts, but it seems on occasion they do.
I am still trying to figure out how the Queen mother was supposed to be in so much debt and the Queen had to bail her out, but Queen Elizabeth managed to leave all her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren millions, there must be a logical explanation for that.
Actually when Edward VIII abdicated there was an inventory to see what could be called private property so that Edward could be compensated and have enough to live in luxury for the rest of his life. I think Sandringham was one house that was considered private and Balmoral but of that I am not quite certain but whichever properties they were, King George bought them off his brother to give him an income but I believe it was this crisis that really got the family thinking about what they actually owned and what belonged to the crown.
I remember a story about Queen Victoria getting a very large legacy from a someone and she accepted it, usually the royal family don´t accept gifts, but it seems on occasion they do.
I am still trying to figure out how the Queen mother was supposed to be in so much debt and the Queen had to bail her out, but Queen Elizabeth managed to leave all her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren millions, there must be a logical explanation for that.
Actually when Edward VIII abdicated there was an inventory to see what could be called private property so that Edward could be compensated and have enough to live in luxury for the rest of his life. I think Sandringham was one house that was considered private and Balmoral but of that I am not quite certain but whichever properties they were, King George bought them off his brother to give him an income but I believe it was this crisis that really got the family thinking about what they actually owned and what belonged to the crown.