King Charles and Prince William’s estates set to rake in £50million from NHS hospitals and schools

ESTATES owned by King Charles and Prince William are acceptable to rake successful astatine slightest £50million from nationalist services including hospitals and schools, it was reported past night.

The King’s Duchy of Lancaster and his son’s Duchy of Cornwall apical up net by renting retired buildings oregon land, a five-month probe by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Sunday Times shows.

Examples see a declaration worthy £11million implicit 15 years for a infirmary spot to usage a cardinal London warehouse for its ambulance fleet.

In January past year, the Duchy of Lancaster said it was “pleased to beryllium of assistance” erstwhile Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust needed to find store space.

A property merchandise said the duchy had granted the infirmary spot a redbrick 1960s warehouse adjacent to Tower Bridge.

In fact, the declaration shows the NHS is paying rent of £829,348 a year.

However, royal adept and writer Phil Dampier was speedy to support Charles and Wills, insisting: “The Royal Family costs taxpayers precise small — little than £2 a idiosyncratic per year. Money it generates from its activities to prolong its buildings and onshore adds to the monarchy’s entreaty and semipermanent sustainability.”

The probe recovered that the Dorset Fire Authority was charged an upfront £612,000 to lease onshore implicit 125 years for a caller occurrence station.

Devon region council, it was revealed, pays £300 a twelvemonth — amounting to £15,000 implicit its 50-year lease — to usage a occurrence ­station successful Princetown, connected Dartmoor.

The Ministry of Justice pays the Duchy of Cornwall £1.5million a twelvemonth to usage Dartmoor prison, aft signing a 25-year woody successful 2022 worthy astatine slightest £37.5million.

The Duchy of Cornwall struck a woody successful 2017 to complaint Devon region assembly astatine slightest £319,000 successful rent implicit 21 years for the close to usage Princetown Community Primary School, connected Dartmoor.

Six different authorities schools were besides recovered to marque payments to the Prince of Wales’ backstage property worthy astir £600,000 implicit the beingness of the leases.

The Duchy, which owns 67,500 acres of Dartmoor, is charging the subject to bid determination portion the Navy is paying much than £1million to physique and usage jetties and to moor warships.

It was besides reported that charities, including ones with Royal patronage, were paying fees, too.

In 2011, Charles struck a woody to complaint St John Ambulance, of which the King is present patron, a one-off outgo of £60,000 to lease a store successful Poundbury, the exemplary municipality his Duchy built successful Dorset.

And since 2005 the Royals person received a stock of the rent from ­Camelford House, an bureau artifact owned by the Duchy of Cornwall.

Sources said it was nicknamed “charity towers” due to the fact that truthful many, including Macmillan Cancer Support, the hospice foundation Marie Curie, Comic Relief, person rented offices there.

The King is patron of Macmillan and Marie Curie, portion William has promoted Comic Relief.

The Duchy has received astatine slightest £22million from a stock of the rents, the immense bulk of which were paid earlier the King passed its power to William.

A spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster pointed out: “The Duchy of Lancaster operates arsenic a commercialized company, managing a wide scope of onshore and spot assets crossed England and Wales.

“It complies with each applicable UK authorities and regulatory standards applicable to its scope of concern activities.”