Being coronated, meant that the responsibility of King Charles raised significantly. Also, it means that he will have more money. As the new government plan is suggesting, the King will receive more from the UK taxpayers.
“The review of the royal funding settlement was heavily spun by the Treasury to give the impression that the king would be taking a pay cut so that crown estate funds could instead be spent on public services,” the Guardian shared about the annual monarchy’s budget.
“In fact, the report reveals the monarchy is due to receive a huge pay increase, although the rise will not kick in for another two years.”
With each passing year, the taxpayer funding the crown is receiving will raise too. The government shared that they had “reduced the proportion of Crown Estate profits used to calculate the Sovereign Grant.”
Graham Smith accused the government and accused them of “appalling dishonesty..” Chief executive of the anti-monarchy group Republic stated, “The palace and government are guilty of appalling dishonesty, trying to spin an expected huge funding increase as a cut.”
“How can we add tens of millions of pounds to Charles’ budget when we’re told there must be a cap on child support when schools are struggling to make ends meet?”
“When nurses are fighting for a decent pay rise, Charles digs his hands deeper into our pockets,” Smith continued. “He should hang his head in shame at this grab for money and the dishonesty of suggesting it’s a cut.”
After their coronation, King Charles and Queen Camilla started to visit all over their country. The head of the royals are also wanted to go to France too, but later it was cancelled.
As his mother did, King Charles also prioritizing visiting Australia, New Zealand and other Carribean realms of the Commonwealth.
“The King and his family are keen to hit the ground running in these crucial first few months and years of his reign,” a source shared.
“He certainly wants to carry on the long-held mantra from his late mother of being seen to be believed and is very keen to get out and meet as many people as possible.”
Charles also thought about visiting Canada, and along with the country, his son Harry, daughter-in-law Meghan Markle, and grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet.
The head of the monarch never travels alone, as they carry their staff with them. As the Mirror suggesting, Charles has 28 person as his personal staff. Four chefs, five house managers, three valets and dressers, and two butlers.
“His pajamas are pressed every morning, his shoelaces are pressed flat with an iron, the bath plug has to be in a certain position, and the water temperature has to be just tepid,” Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell shared.
Burrell also added that Charles even “has his valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning.”
Tina Brown, royal expert and author, claimed that Charles is carrying a large van of his belongings to other countries, a day before he arrives. In these belongings, he also has his Kleenex Velvet lavatory paper – and even a toilet seat.
When they interviewed an Australian radio station in 2018, King talked about these claims.
“My own what? Oh, don’t believe all that c***,” he said.
“So he doesn’t carry his own toilet seat when he travels?” Camilla added.
“Don’t you believe that!” Charles continued.
As royal expert Daniela Elser talked about another problem, she shared that eight words are enough to bring down King Charles. “So long as the eight words ‘The Duke of York’ and ‘The Duke of Sussex’ appear on the royal website as Counsellors of State, His Majesty is putting his reign – and the whole palace shebang – in jeopardy,” royal expert shared.
“[Andrew and Harry] are both a seemingly never ending font of trouble for the monarch yet both remain part of the royal fabric,” Elser added.
King Charles also warned the family members about being too distant from the people in their kingdom, as he wanted family members to engage with people more than the past years.
There were 3,338 royal engagements in 2014, while there were only 2,079 engagements completed in the last year.
“The Royal family as we know it is on the brink of collapse and risks abolishing itself by stealth if the King doesn’t take steps to boost visits that have fallen radically over the last decade,” Frank Young, author, shared.
“Through death, scandal, and resignation, the Royal family is increasingly reliant on a few hard-working members, with Charles, Anne, and Edward doing almost half the work…. We now need new working royals or will have to accept a Royal Family that is more distant from the people than at any time in the past 100 years.”
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