The official residence of the royal family since 1837, the 775-room palace with a private swimming pool is also King Charles’s birthplace.
Pawel libera/getty images BUCKINGHAM PALACE Est. Here’s a breakdown of King Charles III’s real estate empire. Everything else, including medieval masterpieces such as the Tower of London and Caernarfon Castle, is a tourist attraction managed by various charities and trusts.įorbes valued these properties with the help of estimates provided by Lenka Dušková Munter, a sales specialist for historical properties at Czech real estate agency Luxent, and Colby Short, co-founder and CEO of estate agent website .uk.
Another of Charles’ new digs, the royal palace in Northern Ireland at Hillsborough Castle, is owned directly by the British government, which purchased it in 1925 for £24,000 (or $1.5 million today.)Īverage citizens can also get in on a piece of the royal lifestyle: the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster operate 56 holiday homes and cottages across England, Wales and the Isles of Scilly that can be rented out, while the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund operates two bed-and-breakfasts in Romania. Two more royal residences are personally owned by other family members-Charles’s sister, Princess Anne, owns Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire (estimated value: $29 million), while the Duke of Gloucester, his first cousin once removed, has put his Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire up for sale for $5.6 million. And there used to be more: between 19, the Crown Estate ceded ownership of six castles, two palaces and one fort in Scotland-including the millennium-old Edinburgh Castle-to the Scottish government.īut only a small number of homes-fourteen-serve as official residences of the King and the royal family.
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Whether he’s traveling to Canada (Rideau Hall in Ottawa,) the Caribbean (King’s House in Jamaica) or the Pacific (Admiralty House in Sydney,) the new monarch always has a place to rest the head that wears the crown.Ĭloser to home, the lavish estates, extravagant mansions and crumbling ruins maintained by the British monarchy, royal foundations or by the King personally are spread throughout three of the four nations of the United Kingdom, plus two cottages in Transylvania. The Crown also holds one of England’s most famous monuments, Stonehenge, which was given “to the nation” in 1918 by Cecil Chubb, a local resident who purchased it for £6,600 in 1915 (about $690,000 today).Īs the head of state in 15 Commonwealth realms-in addition to 13 British territories and three crown dependencies-Charles also has access to at least 49 residences for state visits across the globe, at the homes of his representatives in each nation. And it’s not just palaces and countryside homes: through the Crown Estate and the Duchies, Charles now also oversees $19.6 billion in commercial, residential and agricultural properties throughout the U.K., ranging from Ascot Racecourse and the Oval cricket ground to at least three golf courses, a private airfield and the Savoy Chapel in Westminster, the private church of the reigning monarch.
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