Brytyjski skarb panstwa nic nie dostanie w spadku po krolowej matce
Jdr
w spadku po krolowej matce.
Szczegoly w Guardian'ie dzisiejszym.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,677852,00.html
Dla wielu bedzie nowoscia dzisiejsza wiadomosc, ze krolowa matka
rowniez korzystala z "Listy cywilnej" pobierajac Ł643,000 rocznie,
kiedy majatek jej jest szacowany na okolo Ł70 milinow.
A wiec koszta monarchii brytyjskiej sa stosunkowo wielkie.
Jdr
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The gamble that foiled the taxman
Stephen Bates
Wednesday April 3, 2002
The Guardian
The Queen Mother's longevity has cost the taxpayer millions in lost
inheritance tax revenue, it was becoming clear yesterday. It is likely that
the public purse, which part-subsidised an extravagant lifestyle to the tune
of Ł643,000 a year, will receive little from her estate.
Some estimates place her worth, largely in paintings, china and jewellery,
at nearly Ł70m. Three of her four homes are owned by the Crown Estate and
some of her jewellery will be passed to the Queen because it is part of the
royal collection. But much of her wealth is undoubtedly the result of shrewd
financial advice and canny purchasing over many decades.
In 1994 the Queen Mother placed two-thirds of her money fortune - an
estimated Ł19m - into a trust fund for her great grandchildren, a gamble, at
the age of 94, that she would live for another seven years and so avoid
paying 40%. That hurdle was cleared last year.
Probably the Queen Mother's most valuable single possession, Monet's 1889
painting Study of Rocks: Creuse, Fresseline, now worth anything up to Ł15m
at auction, was bought in 1945 for Ł2,000. Other paintings in her collection
include works by Augustus John, Edward Seago, Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash,
John Piper, LS Lowry, Millais, Sisley, Latour and the Florentine master
Raffaellino del Garbo, a collection that is probably worth at least Ł36m.
Her jewellery may be valued at a further Ł16m. It includes a diamond
necklace that belonged to Marie Antoinette, a diamond tiara and a sapphire
brooch set with diamonds that she gave to Princess Diana on her wedding day.
The Queen Mother's collections of porcelain, silver, Fabergé eggs, clocks
and furniture could come in at Ł15m.
Of the trust fund, William and Harry are likely to share about Ł6m at the
age of 21 - the bulk going to the younger son apparently to compensate for
not becoming sovereign - and a further Ł8m when they reach 40. Princess
Anne's children Zara and Peter Phillips and Prince Andrew's daughters
Beatrice and Eugenie, together with Princess Margaret's children, Viscount
Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, will also receive bequests running into
several millions each.
The trust fund, tying up liquidity, probably partly accounted for the Queen
Mother's overdraft with the royal bankers Coutts, which was reported in 1999
to run to Ł4m. She is said to have told a fellow dinner party guest: "Golly,
I could do with Ł100,000, couldn't you? Had such an awful afternoon today
with my bank manager scolding me about my overdraft."
But even Ł100,000 would not have covered the centenarian's running costs. It
is said that the Queen chipped in Ł2m a year to keep her in the style to
which she had become accustomed and the Prince of Wales paid Ł80,000 a year
to bump up the appallingly low wages paid to some of her aged retainers. She
had a staff of more than 40.
Her stewardship of the Castle of Mey, the one home she owned, in Caithness
near John O'Groats, is an example of royal acumen. The pile was derelict in
1952 when she bought it with money bequeathed by her husband George VI.
The 1,800 acre estate costs at least Ł500,000 a year to maintain, but in
1996 it was placed in the possession of a charitable trust and the Queen
Mother subsequently paid rent only for her annual stay each August.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,677852,00.html
Jdr
"Jdr" <r...@world.com> wrote in message
news:5yzq8.14305$lq6.1...@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Podatnik brytyjski najprawdopodobniej dostanie "nic"
> w spadku po krolowej matce.
>
> Szczegoly w Guardian'ie dzisiejszym.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,677852,00.html
>
> Dla wielu bedzie nowoscia dzisiejsza wiadomosc, ze krolowa matka
> rowniez korzystala z "Listy cywilnej" pobierajac Ł643,000 rocznie,
> kiedy majatek jej jest szacowany na okolo Ł70 milinow.
> A wiec koszta monarchii brytyjskiej sa stosunkowo wielkie.
>
> Jdr
>
>
>
Krawaty i spadek
- To skandal! BBC informujac o smierci Królowej Matki okazala jej
calkowity brak szacunku! - uznal ksiaze Karol. Oburzenie ksiecia
Karola bylo tak wielkie, ze swoje wystapienie do narodu po smierci
swojej babci wyglosil w konkurencyjnej telewizji ITN.
http://www.se.com.pl/iso/Dzisiaj/Wiadomosci/Zagranica/zagranica.shtml
Jdr
Castel of Mey w Szkocji. Królowa Matka juz wczesniej przekazala go
organizacji
charytatywnej. W rodzinie królewskiej nikt bowiem nie byl zainteresowany
zamkiem
na koncu swiata, w którym hula wiatr. "
"Nie wiadomo natomiast, co zrobic z kontem bankowym Królowej Matki.
Jest bowiem na nim deficyt w wysokosci co najmniej 4 mln funtów..."
Proste rozwiazanie;
Konto bankowe przekzac w spdku corce Elzbiecie, ktora warta jest ponoc ponad
ŁŁ 6 miliardow.
Co to jest na nia... splacic Ł4 miliony dlugu po matce. I tak napewno sie
stanie.
Ze spadku najpierw splacone zostana dlugi a potem spdkobiercy beda mogli
wziac swoje.
A co do zamku... po pirwsze wca nie ejst to na koncu swiata...;-)
A po drugie wielu chcetnych przejeloby go w spadku....;-))