King Charles profiting from the assets of dead citizens

[squareyedannie]

Some of their surviving friends were aghast to learn their assets were being used to renovate the king’s properties, calling the practice “disgusting”, “shocking” and “not ethical”.

So the underlying message here is for people to take responsibility for making sure their financial concerns are taken care of?
It's not exactly a secret that wills are necessary legal paperwork, is it? Especially if you know you've not got family.

He says that, after deducting costs, the money goes to charity when in reality it's going towards the upkeep of his properties which are rented out for profit.
It's a little bit disingenuous to make people believe that it's going to good causes.

Was just going to post this story. Medieval is right!

The person should have done a will stating which charities to leave the money to

I remember reading about this a while back. Draconian nonsense from the royal family as usual.

1, Should have made a will, then.

2, At least the Crown isn't the direct cause of them being dead these days.

This isn't news, and there is straightforward and well known way to avoid it.

Just make a will.

I imagine they thought their money was going to charity.

Ah yes. Stupid peasant. Their failure to write a will means that the King should of course take their estates rather than it being for the benefit of all.

Well that’s the first time I ever heard that.
I thought people dying with no relatives, the money would go back to the State, not the King!!

I suppose if they don’t like it, people can move to a different county where Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will decide what to spend their life savings on instead of Charles III, or they can write a will.

60 million in ten years is no small amount.

@squareyedannie youre not the only one that finds it upsetting.
Too many things like this where you are made to believe that money is used one way and actually it isn’t but is used for the benefit if someone else.

I dislike this idea that the RF has all those privileges that come right from the Medieval Ages and it STILL hasn’t been updated.

It usually does. It’s only people dying in the Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall where their assets do not go to the State.

It's not the fact that they didn't make a will it's that they thought the money would be put towards good causes not lining an already rich-person's purse.

How do you know what they thought?

Well it seems many people who are discovering that are quite upset!!

The dead person was perhaps happy with their decision not to make a will, maybe the friends are moaning because they thought they should get a cut

@BabaBarrio They obviously knew where their money was going, and it's long been claimed that this money was going to support charities.

How can they be quite upset if they are dead

You have no idea what those people thought would happen.

@wutheringkites They must have known that the property they owned was in The Duchy of Lancaster.

So weird that so many people do not get the point. The money was said to go to charity. Which part of this statement do people not understand?

You would be surprised what people don't know. I find it's safest not to make assumptions, especially if they're dead.

I agree it's wrong for the King to profit from this though.

Make a will it's common knowledge it goes to the Crown