ROYAL CIVIL LIST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20679, 18 March 1937, Page 5

ROYAL CIVIL LIST

NO MENTION OF DUKE OF WINDSOR United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 16. In the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain read a message from the King asking for provision in the Civil List for the Queen and her children, except Princess Elizabeth, who, with the Duke of Gloucester will be provided for from the Duchy of Cornwall revenues. The Duke of Windsor is not mentioned. Select Committee Constituted The Select Committee to consider the Civil List consists of twenty-one members of the House of Commons, representatives of all parties, including Mr Baldwin, Major Attlee, Mr Neville Chamberlain, Mr Winston Churchill, Mr Lloyd George, Sir Robert Home, Sir Archibald Sinclair and Mr L. 11. C. Amery.

This message is the customary one at the commencement of a reign offering to the nation the revenues of the Crown lands; and asking that Parliament shall, in return, provide incomes for him and members of the Royal Family. A select committee of members of Parliament of all parties prepares the details of each new Civil List. The committee receives private communications from the King about a number of financial questions. This time, it is thought, one of the questions to be considered, will be the financial provision for the Duke of Windsor, though it may be settled by special Act. The amount, it is thought, will be not less than £25.000 a year. The Civil List fixed for King Edward VIII in 1936 was for £410,000 a year, against the £470,000 given to King George v and Queen Mary in 1910. An additional £124,000 was allowed for members of King George V’s family. As there is now again a Queen to share the Throne, the £470,000 may be restored, with provision for a reduction so long as there is no Prince of Wales. When a Prince of Wales is born, the revenue from the Duchy of Cornwall goes to him. Until then it goes to the King. Normally the King is exempt from income tax and super-tax. but it is regarded as likely that, while he is drawing the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall, King George will authorise the Treasury to take from his income an amount equal to the taxes chargeable on that amount—a gift of at least £45.000 a year to the nation.