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...purse," about $750,000 a year in revenues from the Duchy of Lancaster, lands that Henry III seized from two rebellious barons in 1265. This revenue pays for the Queen's personal expenditures as head of state, including clothing (about $75,000 worth a year) and upkeep of Sandringham and Balmoral castles, which she owns outright...
...collection of commercial properties that has belonged to sovereigns since 1399. The Duchy, on which the Queen pays property taxes but not income tax, produced a net income in 1969 of more than $500,000. In addition, the Queen receives revenues from investments, inheritances and farming at Balmoral and Sandringham castles (the only two residences whose expenses the Queen meets from her private funds), and a string of race horses...
...operation), "it was Lady Jackie who visited him even more often than Margaret." Last week, as the rumors flew, sometime Fashion Model Jacqueline left England for Switzerland, sometime Fashion Photographer Tony worked in a wheelchair at Kensington Palace, and Princess Margaret and the two children visited Queen Elizabeth at Sandringham. Jacqueline's mother, Lady Reading, denying all, called the reports "absolutely ridiculous," but from Princess Margaret's official spokesman, Major John Griffin, it was: "As far as I know, there is no romance. Denials were issued several days ago, when there were rumors of a divorce...
...cost $3,120-out of the Prince's own pocket-and boasts such embellishments as an electrically controlled aerial and a leather-covered steering wheel. It has a bull horn that has already caused mumbles in the Noise Abatement Society. Charles will keep the car at Sandringham House for use on weekends and vacations from Cambridge, 50 miles away. The university, less impressed than insurance men by royal prerogative, will not let him keep a car on campus until...
...Dear old Sandringham," murmured King George V, "the place I love better than anywhere else in the world." Three generations of British royalty felt the same way about the vast, 350-room pile in the flat fields of Norfolk-never mind its drafty inefficiency. Then along came modern-minded Prince Philip, with inventories for the kitchen, time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56?-per-hour...