| Edinburgh’s takeover of Scottish Crown Estate assets may rile the royal household worried for its purse, but a misdirected fight could feed Scots’ republican instincts. The royal household is annoyed and appears to be picking a fight with Scotland’s government over the Queen’s share of the UK’s largest and most valuable property portfolio, the Crown Estate.
The publicly owned property empire, which takes in Ascot racecourse, London’s West End, Highland estates, farms, shopping centres, leisure parks, mining operations and most of the UK’s seabed and coastline, as well as lucrative licences to install wind farms and wave energy machines on the seabed, is worth billions of pounds...............................................Full Article: Source
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