scandal in United Kingdom. He king charles Third party benefits from unclaimed inheritances, according to publication Guardian. In most of the country, when someone dies without making a will, the State takes charge of the assets.

The ‘bona vacantia’ is the heritage that left behind by those who die without a will or heirs. This money goes to the state, which allocates it to public goods. With two exceptions: the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. There the heritage goes directly to the royal family. This is how they have pocketed sixty million pounds in just a decade.

The duchy maintains that these revenues are intended for charities. Two of them are linked to the real estate assets of the British monarchy. Part of that money has been used to restore the savoy chapel and for the rental of rural housing.

Another 14 million remain from the annual amount they receive. According to investigations by The Guardian, this money would be used to renew the king’s real estate assets He is one of the largest rentiers in the United Kingdom. He has also increased rents due to the “renovations” of their propertiesimprovements that would precisely have been financed with the ‘bona vacantia’.