Crown Estate paying Prince Andrew’s rent while charging Welsh farmers to access their own land

This assertion about Prince Andrew is not strictly true. It seems he paid 1 million up front plus a total of about 7 million£ for a lease. Leasehold property may or may not have a ground rent attached. In this case because he paid a lot to renovate it it seems he was granted a peppercorn rent. Apparently the location of the property and its poor condition made these terms acceptable to the Crown Estate. Whatever the other issues are about this tiresome man falsely claiming he owes rent is not appropriate. The Crown Estate is basically a property holding organisation which pays its profits into the Treasury as part of the consolidated fund. The money is not taxpayers money rather it is state income from property ownership. A portion is returned to the King as the Sovereign Grant to fund the monarchy.

If labour want any chance of preventing a whitewash at the next senedd election, they need to devolve crown estates to Wales. Headlines like this will not help them.

This is why we need the devolution of the Crown Estate. Our farmers are paying through the nose for the millionaire lifestyle of an alledged abuser of the late Victoria Giuffre. Andrew has lived in his lad pad for 20+ years for virtually nothing. The purported cost per annum is about £804,000. And I put the blame fully on both anti-Welsh Conservatives and Labour, who over the months and years have flatly denied Wales & Welsh Government powers requested so that we could benefit from our own natural and coastal resource. What voters don't realise is that Labour & Conservatives we're happy to see Scotland have the Crown Estate power devolved in 2017 but are hostile to Wales. Ask yourselves this. Why not Wales? Scotland now enjoys hundreds of millions that flow into the Scottish Government coffers where Wales has nothing and has to go cap in hand to Westminster for scraps. Enough is enough! Importantly. What voters must realise is that Scotland had the devolution of its Crown Estate in 2017 because it came from a position of strength. It was the largest party in Scotland, and it also returned 56 SNP MPs in 2015 to fight its cause at Westminster. We must emulate the success of the SNP. Caerphilly must be the catalyst, the spark, to greater things. Nothing is ever freely given without a fight. We must fight for our rights. It's only Plaid Cymru who will fight for Wales interests in Cardiff and at Westminster. Labour, Conservatives and Reform UK care not for Wales. They've made this perfectly clear with their Anglocentric arrogance. The Welsh Not is alive and well at Westminster. So we can either remain a voiceless backwater vassal state on the Western fringe of Britain forever used and abused , or a proud independent country that rejoins the world as equal. Only a fool would choose the former.

This is not that big of an issue to me. This is a private arrangement between landlord and tenant. It is up to the Landlord to set the terms and the costs to be paid. If the landlord is happy to lease the property at peppercorn value then that is within their prerogative. In the mean time, until the lease is up, a tenant has every right to maintain that contract. Else we're condoning scummy landlord behavior up and down the country. Fwiw, this man has not been (to my knowledge) convicted of a crime, nor found by any civil court "on the balance of probabilities" to have committed a crime. This man might be a complete slimeball, but as far as I can tell, the only thing at play here is unproven allegations. Just like the rest of the royal family, I don't understand why we keep giving them airtime. Even if he was convicted, as far as I am aware, even convicts can enjoy the right of contracts provided both sides fulfill their promises.

The evident moral of this apparently interminable sage is surely that in the 21st century we'd be better off disentangling the nation from this antique, decrepit and occasionally - as in the case of Andrew - rather disgusting institution. No reason why - as in several former monarchies across Europe - the ex-royals shouldn't be able to hang on the their titles if they want to do that. Just render them as private eccentricities, distinct from the nation and the state.

What a stubborn proportion of society, who refuse to admit how dreadful the royals are. What shame on so-called socialist movements in Wales who remain loyal to hypocritical manipulative organisations, of which there are many.

Quote: "The Crown Estate is a huge collection of lands and holdings in the UK belonging to the British monarch worth around £16 billion." Get it right Emily. Change the words 'belonging to' to 'stolen by'.