Daniela Relf
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174 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Daniela Relf’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It needed attention.
And the work that has been done, regardless of who's living in it, will make the building more usable for decades to come.
Well, these are the publication of the royal accounts.
They're an important part of the royal year.
They happen around this time every year.
The difference this year is there has just been this real scrutiny on the family finances, the fallout after the whole situation with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his accommodation and who's paying for what.
has just put royal money under more scrutiny than it's ever been really, with lots of calls politically for greater accountability and for transparency.
That has been heard to a degree by the teams within both Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace.
And one of the little chinks of light they've given us in the publication of royal accounts this year is to give us those figures for tax.
So we know that since the King became King and since Prince William became the Prince of Wales,
Jointly, they have paid over £50 million to HMRC.
In the year 2024 to 2025, the King paid just over £12 million in tax, and Prince William in the same period paid just over £7 million.
It's the first time we've had any kind of ballpark figure for a monarch paying tax, so that in itself is interesting.
It is new information, it is something we didn't know before, but it is openness with limitations, because
What we don't know is quite how that figure was got to.
What was the breakdown?
What were the sources of income that were liable for tax?
What were the numbers there that were put together?
How were things audited?
We don't know any of that information.
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