Re: Prince Phillip
 

Maybe you should Google 'The Duke of Edinburgh's Award' and then come back and tell us what a waste of space he is. How all those millions of kids spread over 10+ countries were better off staying at home instead of volunteering or gaining new skills.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

Not the world's wealthiest woman.

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I cant imagine how she wouldn't be the world's wealthiest woman. She has ownership of assets that are beyond the reach of the wealthiest.

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Most of it is state-owned, property of the Crown, not Elizabeth Windsor.

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Isnt the Crown Estate owned by the Queen ? Two years ago Guardian reported the value of those holdings alone at 11.5 billion, though Queen as I understand it keeps only 15% of revenue. Then they are assets held outright like Balmoral Castle- how would one value such assets ? Plus if I remember whales within three miles of the shore.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

Fairly easy to value real estate. Forbes does an annual list of the wealthiest women (as does the Times) and in recent years it usually lament's Liz's fall from the top position. And in any case, as Brit pointed out, they are state not personal assets. Constitutional monarchy and all that.

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I should correct myself slightly when I said 'state-owned', the Crown Estate is neither property of the monarch nor their government, but held in trust for the nation. This means neither the Queen nor the government can sell off the assets but income from the estate does go into the government coffers from which the monarchy receives 15% of the net revenue which is the Sovereign grant and helps pay for the upkeep of Royal residences, etc..

Those properties that the Queen does own outright were bought by her predecessors for private family use; this is why she holidays in Balmoral during the summer and Sandringham during the winter, as those are the family's private homes and therefore allows them to be 'off-duty', or at least a reduced workload for the Queen.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

:goodpost:

A very good point.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

The Duke of Edinburgh award was founded by Kurt Hahn.

Good effort though.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

It was modelled on Kurt Hahn's philosophy (Hahn was Philip's headmaster at Gordonstoun) but it is incorrect to state that Hahn was the founder.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

As well as Gordonstoun, where Philip was one fo the first pupils, Hahn founded many other schools based on his "Salem School" model, including the first Outward Bound school in Wales in the 1940s. It was this, and the educational philosophy expressed in his "Six Declines of Modern Youth" (and his recipe to reverse those declines) that the Duke of Edinburgh adopted to base his awards on. By the time the DofE awards were established in 1956, Hahn had retired due to ill health.

Re: Prince Phillip
 

So does the queen thanks to the great diet they eat and access to beyond imagination expert healthcare professionals.

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You mean a bit like Oskar Gröning?