jordanlund,
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UKs richest family? But not the King? 🤔

CheeseNoodle,

The british royal family are a bit like a church, Not that rich on paper but buffalo buffalo buffalo owning so many assets all over the world that if you did the legwork to put it all together they might turn out to be richer than the richest oligarchs.

corus_kt,

I need a better linguist to ELI5 buffaloes

Or is this just bully bully bully

jordanlund,
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corus_kt,

As mentioned the sentence looks unrelated to bison and/or the city, leaving the interpretation to be ‘bully intimidate bully’ which sounds jank

Am I just overanalyzing a phrase meant to be a joke

Treczoks,

Nope, not the King. He might have a lot of stuff, but quite a lot of that is basically unsellable. So his crown might be worth a gazillion, but parliament would probably interfere if he tried to sell it off. And it would be an issue what is actually his to sell and what is really owned by the state.

Blackmist,

Much of it is owned by the Crown Estate. Which is technically owned by the current monarch, but it’s not their personal property.

All sounds like a scam to me to prevent inheritance taxes scooping off a chunk every time one of them carks it.

JohnEdwa,

All the revenue that the Crown Estate generates is given directly to the UK government to use, so they get plenty of tax from it already. ~$400 million in 2022 for example.

wildcardology,

The king is worth at around $700 million.

Blackmist,

Watch in awe as absolutely none of these fuckers go to prison.

michel,

@Blackmist
Several family members got 4,5 years each in Prison.
They will take the judgment to the next court.
@return2ozma

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Behind every great fortune is a great crime

ratofkryll,

Just one?

sensiblepuffin,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

There are also some okay crimes

ynthrepic, (edited )
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Is the royal family not the richest in the UK? Edit: Not just me wondering this I see!

wildcardology,

The UK royal family’s net worth is estimated at $28 billion. While king Charles’ personal net worth is at $700 million.

massacre,

Imagine having $700 million, having almost no responsibility, and still being that much of a putz.

dependencyinjection,

Yet they still take money every year. Scroungers and pedophiles.

bookcrawler,

Happy to see something done at least. Annoyed knowing they were likely accused, and investigated due to their skin colour. As per some family there, you absolutely do not go certain places without a white friend or friends. If you’re going out by yourself you do it on crowded days and make sure you’re seen on security cameras and make note of where and when. That way when you get accused, because you will be, you’re covered.

For context they were born and raised in Switzerland, one of their parents was as well. The other parent moved there from North America and has since become a Swiss citizen about 40 years ago. The parent that moved is a visible minority and continues to have an adventure of a time.

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