Talk:Duchy of Lancaster

message: The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are not the only Royal Dukedoms in the UK, there are others: York, Edinburgh, Kent, and Gloucester.  They are unusual entities it is difficult to summarise briefly, I have done my best. PatGallacher 15:17, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
:A Duchy is not the same thing as a Dukedom. Proteus (Talk) 16:13, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, one is passed on the left hand side.--feline1 (talk) 08:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

text: Yes it's exactly that. I believe it goes back to Victoria of the United Kingdom who believed the title of 'Duke' to be the appropriate title for the holder of a Duchy, as 'Duchess' is a courtesy title for the wife of a duke. Craigy  (talk) 09:05, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Er, why us this tagged as a biography? It's about a piece of land, not a person. --Dr Greg 17:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography? 

message: If, as the article states, the Duchy is a personal possesion of the monarch rather than of the Crown as an abstract concept, why didn't Edward VIII maintain ownership of it after he abdicated?  Did he need to also abdicate as Duke of Lancaster? --Jfruh (talk) 21:40, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the 'personal possession' of the reigning monarch. Once the reigning monarch abdicates, he is no longer the reigning monarch, and thus his successor gets to be Duke of Lancaster. As you can see, it's basically a centuries-old tax dodge.--feline1 (talk) 14:07, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Edward VIII

message: So, where does the duchy's income come from? Is it mostly rent with the Duke as landlord, or what? 99.155.95.247 (talk) 22:39, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, quite a lot of it. And investment income. --feline1 (talk) 08:45, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

text: This page needs to be updated to include the Paradise Paper's revelations that the duchy has invested "millions of pounds offshore" in well-known tax havens including Ireland, the Cayman Islands, and Guernsey, and its investments include the unsavory BrightHouse. <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-queen-private-estate-invested-offshore-paradise-papers>  108.84.130.26 (talk) 14:32, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Source of profit?

message: '==Role==
The duchy is not the property of the Crown, but is instead the personal (inherited) property of the monarch and has been since 1399, when the Dukedom of Lancaster, held by Henry of Bolingbroke (Henry IV), merged with the crown on his appropriation of the throne (after the dispossession from Richard II). The Loyal Toast, "The Queen, the Duke of Lancaster" is still in frequent use within the County Palatine.''
''
This is self-contradicting nonsense. I assume the article on the Duchy of Cornwall suffers from the same. These are Crown entities, or in other words, public property managed on behalf of the Crown, with proceeds assumed by the State? Some can surely do better than I in deploying some plain English.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.186.30.44 (talk) 11:01, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not nonsense. It is not public property, the money does not go to the state, it is private untaxed income for the monarch. --feline1 (talk) 08:48, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
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