When King Charles was Prince of Wales, he bought real estate and folded those properties into the Duchy of Cornwall, the vast real estate empire controlled by the heir to the throne. One property was Highgrove, the Gloucestershire “country estate” Charles has called home for more than forty years. Charles retains his “lease” on Highgrove and pays the Duchy (meaning, his son) a fee for staying there. In 2007, Charles also purchased a Welsh “cottage,” which is more like a farmhouse on an enormous piece of land. The estate is called Llwynywermod, and as Prince of Wales, Charles made a point of visiting the estate once a year or so. Well, in June, Charles decided that he simply has too many houses, palaces and castles, so he would give up his lease on Llwynywermod. The palace made a big f–king deal about it too, like they were trying to convince people that Charles was downsizing by giving up his 13th property or something. Well, it also looks like William has no interest in taking on Llwynywermod for himself, so he’s going to rent it out. Which means he expects his father to move out of the property right now. Charles is reportedly “miffed” to be evicted by his son. Weird!
Prince William has told his father he will have to pay to stay as a guest at his beloved Welsh holiday home – and must move all of his belongings out of the property, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The King is said to be ‘miffed’ after William, the new Prince of Wales, told his father that he plans to rent out the picturesque cottage which Charles bought for £1.2 million in 2007 and had lovingly restored.
The property, Llwynywermod, on the outskirts of the Brecon Beacons National Park, was bought through the Duchy of Cornwall, which William took over following the late Queen’s death last year. Charles spent a week or two at Llwynywermod each summer, but William has not renewed his father’s lease. After September, it will be available for hire as a holiday home – much to the King’s ‘disappointment’, according to an insider. It means Charles must move his belongings and personal effects out.
Llwynywermod will be marketed to holidaymakers after September. Three nearby properties owned by the Duchy are already let out. The three-bedroom North Range cottage is priced at £2,400 a week. Charles had restored Llwynywermod with the help of architect Craig Hamilton. Such is his affinity for the place, the King agreed to continue to pay for the upkeep of the property, including the cost of hiring the two topiary experts to maintain the manicured trees and shrubs in the grounds.
Last night, a Royal source said: ‘The King was quite miffed but that was the deal. It means he can continue to stay there but he will pay rent to the Duchy and the rest of the time it will be rented out. The King has agreed to pay for the topiary upkeep as he doesn’t want to see all the good work in the grounds go to waste.’
The Mail on Sunday revealed last month that William wants to spend more time in Wales staying in B&Bs and holiday rentals rather than any permanent Royal residence. Palace sources said the Prince and Princess want to support the tourist economy by renting cottages and rooms.
“Palace sources said the Prince and Princess want to support the tourist economy by renting cottages and rooms” – more like William and Kate want to only travel to Wales once in a blue moon and they don’t want to set the expectation of having a Welsh home which they never visit. I always wonder about these royal properties being rented and what kind of people actually rent them. Like, does a normal middle-class family really think “oh, I’d like to rent the king’s old Welsh property for a family vacation?” I guess some people are like that? But it does sound like Llwynywermod is in the middle of Welsh Bumf–k, and it doesn’t even have a pool or anything fun to do? As for Charles being “miffed” – my gut says that this is all kind of performative on Charles’s part, like “oh, look at me, I’m so mad at William telling me to get my sh-t out of the cottage I already said I no longer want!” Sometimes, I kind of think these stories are lowkey spon-con, like they’re using royal reporting to promote royal rentals.
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Oh. You mean that thing he did to his younger son, is now being done to him by his older son?
Yeah, the karma bus eventually makes a return trip.
The difference is that Chuck took the only home his son had in Britain, not one of 20 (os so) houses Chucky has in his disposition. It’s nice to know Willy asked his father to free the house, but it’s definitely not enough. Though I have the feeling TOB is planning to make King Charles vacate the throne, not just the cottege in Wales.
I honestly hope Charles doesn’t go along with that, if it truly comes to that.
I already watched King Charles III and I want something original in my Royal Programming, thank you very much. Let’s see a different way of those dingbats screwing everything up.
Imagine being so rich you can spend millions on a house you visit one or two weeks per year. These stories make them sound even more out of touch than we thought.
This family is like the reverse Oprah, in that instead of giving cars to everyone, it’s “Everybody gets an eviction! One for Harry, one for Charles…” Oy.
Don’t forget Angela Kelly
@issy, yep and let’s hope it’s the first of many stops!
Oh, nos! Chuckles only has four or five or six other summer homes to choose from now. The RBBF (resting big baby face) must be back since there are no special topiaries at the other homes; what! Meanwhile, most of us are cutting back on water usage because of drought conditions in BC. Wildfire smoke is impacting air quality everywhere. The Bank of Canada keeps increasing interest rates putting many on the brink of losing their homes. There’s a food crisis happening in the world. People are dying from the extreme heat, but sure, Chuckles supposedly being evicted from one of his dozens of homes; sure, lead with that…
Only similar at a very, very conceptual idea level.
It’s certainly dog eat dog with Charles, Andrew and William! What a trio….
Renting out another property he owns just doesn’t vibe with his housing the homeless campaign. And Charles is still paying for the topiary and groundwork? Assuming bc he doesn’t trust William to actually do that?
So Charles evicted Harry from Frogmore Cottage and now William has evicted Charles from Llwynywermod Cottage but Charles is miffed? I guess Charles hasn’t heard about karma. What goes around comes around dude. 🤷♀️
I think it’s a joke. I think the RF they are conning the public into thinking they are austere in this time of hardship where everyone, even the King! have to make sacrifices. I think Willie is hoping to achieve approval from the masses for being just like us with this particular stunt. It feels like the two airplanes stunt he pulled a couple of years ago. I just don’t buy anything the RF says on the surface.
I don’t feel for him that he has to pay for something he uses. He has too much property as it is and should be selling or giving it away to help solve so many of the crises England and the UK are facing right now. But, no. It’s always about me first, and how to make sure my me is prioritized over everyone else’s me, family mes be damned.
At some point in life, it must get tiring to shuttle from house to house to house. Two weeks here, three days there, Christmas, Easter, Romania. Sure, there’s a caravan of staff, but after a while, wouldn’t you want to just put your feet up and have a nice cup of tea?
I believe that’s what royalty is usually about, living high at other people’s expense. The fake charity work is a sham for the tax paying subjects to believe they are getting value from the royals for their taxes. The propaganda spin is that the royals bring in income from tourism so they earn the sovereign grant but it’s the biggest lie out there. The royals do not contribute to tourism income. Tourists don’t visit the UK to see the royals nor do the royals make themselves available to visiting tourists or entertain tourists. They dress up and take pictures at charities and spend time at their many homes sipping tea, chatting (gossiping), scheming, enjoying the estates’ sceneries or hunting on their estates. In addition to the money they receive from the sovereign grant, they also make personal income from the businesses they have on their estates, personal income that the public is not privy to (undisclosed). They run the institution like a mafia (exemptions from the government, cover up from the tabloids). In my opinion it’s a protection racket. It’s nice to sometimes see them squabble for with each other for money. Thankfully the Sussexes are out of the toxicity and can be financially independent of the institution.
Oh, definitely. But when you reach 75, living high doesn’t mean the same thing as when you were 45, or even 65. Still using other people’s money, but maybe not as much travel. We saw that with Elizabeth as she got older.
Oh dear daddy’s being evicted. How will Horsilla be dealing with this. What does she have up her sleeve to put Peg in his place. Will we hear about some affairs? Ready with my popcorn and drink.
Camilla doesn’t give a flying f*ck. She stays where she pleases and probably thinks this is funny. I know I do.
I doubt she thinks it’s funny. She is always doing Chuckles dirty work and she will put Peg in his place one way or another.
Serves Charles right
Like people on twitter mentioned thank god HarryMeghan are well away from this nonsense.
Btw, William staying in B&B’s?!
@inge, yep they stay at a b&b, but we call it a castle 😂😂, because NO b@b would have the relevant security clearance or room for their Royal protection details
This story makes no sense. Why would Charles be miffed about having to vacate a property he had declared he was giving up?
He wouldn’t, because the story makes no sense.
Charles may be miffed if he didn’t want to give it up and was requested to vacate so it could be leased to others for more than he would be willing to pay to lease it. When he controlled the Duchy of Cornwall he could have set the lease terms to be favorable to his needs but now William controls the Duchy. Maybe William wants to have it rented publicly on short term leases whereas Charles preferred a private long term lease for himself. Maybe public lease would be more income to the Duchy. At any rate, it sounds like Charles reluctantly gave up the property. However it looks like Charles’ people got a jump on framing the story about giving up the property when BP released the sovereign grant report a few weeks ago. Seems someone at BP of KP is now briefing out this additional detail for some reason. Maybe in exchange for killing another story which might have been unfavorable to one of them. There is always an angle beyond whatever gossip is shared by the institution to the tabloids.
Good to see them back to briefing against each other now that the Sussexes are out of the toxic institution and safe in the US. There are no leaks from California and that’s good.
Maybe the reason we heard he was giving it up a few months ago was because William was evicting him? So it wasn’t voluntary at all. IDK.
It was convenient to disclose during the sovereign report so it could be framed as him reducing costs and distract from the extra £20m+ in excess of the Sovereign that they spent from April 2022 to March 2023. Looks like from this new report, he was actually miffed about having to give it up. Which means it wasn’t really about him looking to lower costs as was previously implied. The propaganda spins continue. There is always high likelihood of something else happening beyond what the tabloids print. The angle of the spin depends on which palace is briefing the tabloids.
Surely as a champion of the homeless. William must be aware of the articles detailing how “Holiday Lets” has priced ordinary folks out of their homes? It might only be one cottage but, surely the better PR move would be to rent it out at an affordable rent?
After what Charles did to H&M I shed no tears for him having to pack up his stuff and get out. It’s just a shame that his greedy heir has done this to help himself and not the people he’s supposed to be championing!
Can you imagine if Harry and Meghan stayed in England? They would have to have that horrid mole rat looking creature welding his power over them. Charles created this mess and now he has to pay for it.
So glad they’re not in England living under the mole rat’s thumb.
Poor Chuckie miffed about having to send a flunkie to pack up the royal toilet seat and royal blankies and the Welsh version of the childhood worn out royal teddy bear. I hope Willy at least allows them to keep all the Duchy Original biscuits, tea and honey that no doubt is stashed in the pantry for the paying guests (if it’s not all expired from pandemic times). It seems that although CRex did not renew the lease, he expected the Duchy to keep the property as is and let it sit empty. Having to move out his stuff and hand over the gardener’s shed keys to someone else is what got him. Good for Charles for digging deep to keep the topiaries going knowing Willy wouldn’t make the effort.
“I always wonder about these royal properties being rented and what kind of people actually rent them. “
The Middletons including Kate, during the waiting years, paid to holiday at Charles Cornish home Restormel. So there’s your answer.
Wow! I looked at some pictures of Kate from that time and she’s wearing sensible wedge heels… looks happy as a lark in a real way and with Bill near her looking just as happy. What a difference having an affair or two makes…
Sounds like a set up to me. “See ,even the king is being evicted!” I think it is funny, that all they have to do, is re-shuffle houses! Glorified slumlords.
Please tell me the duchy pays taxes on these earnings
@gabby, nope, it’s all used as tax write offs for so called maintainance on the estate!pity we don’t have Rico laws (not sure of my spelling Lol) in the UK
Wouldn’t the “cottage” be better served as a museum to attract tourists?? That could generate money for the local economy. I mean, that’s what the BRF says their beneficial for, right?? Increasing tourism??
Yes, a great deal of the British population is royalist and I once read in the DM the testimony of a tenant of Charles in the duchy of Cornwall who was absolutes delighted and proud to live in a royal property.
My personal theory on William evicting his father is that he’s mad Royal Lodge is still not his!
What I see is payback for letting Andrew keep Royal Lodge. Also Charles expecting William would keep it as a home base in Wales. What’s ridiculous is William not planning on staying there a week a year and renting it out the rest of the time. He really can’t be arsed.
As to who rents these fancy houses. A mix of fancy people and regular people who do it as a group, especially for something like a wedding or other family occasion. Friends of my parents do this occasionally. If you fill the place up, it costs about the same as a nice hotel, especially if you do your own cooking.
Each one of these stories just serves to remind people how many houses these grifters have.
What’s interesting, is the Fail had this as a headline, but not for long. Someone must’ve made a call cause it got pushed down quickly.
And the headline made it sound like Charles was thrown out, instead of already planning to leave.
So, I have two questions: first is if they will be taxed accordingly. The Tories have enforced a crackdown on second homes & holiday lets, so I am wondering if that will apply to the Wails too. But who am I kidding? Most definitely, not! Secondly, do they know how that really affects the local economy? Cornwall and Dorset and Devon are all full of holiday lets and people wanting to rent are slowly priced out. I am hoping that this doesn’t apply to Wales much (because of a different gov), but this is still another obstacle that renters have to overcome and I am fed up with it!
If I were being evicted from a property, I wouldn’t contribute one cent towards topiary upkeep. Pegs is such a cheapskate. And Chuck is wasting the taxpayers money on this nonsense. Where is the outrage?
” Sometimes, I kind of think these stories are low key spon-con, like they’re using royal reporting to promote royal rentals.”
There is an idea, should one believe the PR of the wonderful relationship of the Monarch and Heir, this would not be available to the public, it is either propaganda or a sales pitch.
They are going to regret their arrangement with the media..
It is safe to say that most of the critical thinkers in the UK population are taking an extended break from the media as it pertains to the royals.
Local news rules…..
Reportage based on the population mean that said population can decipher if such news have integrity; not to mention relatedness.
These Billionaires, wealth hoarding turds!
It is a sick game of musical palaces these tools are playing while 99.9% of the rest of humanity does without.
F them all!
Maybe they best start keeping a better lid on their bull.
One of these days, they are going to be pushed OUT!
The French had the right idea.
Down With The Monarchy. The sooner the better.
Wills wants to “support the tourist economy” by renting when he comes to Wales. When has the RF ever paid market rate for anything though? Forget about market rate, when have they paid for anything? I hope we don’t get stories about them expecting discounts and freebies when they grace Wales with their presence.
Actually, I hope those stories come out. I also hope that William doesn’t do that but I’m dubious.
Chuck doesn’t need the Wales property. This seems like someone trying to create conflict.
I think this is hilarious. William is using his clout to evict his own father. Wonderful! Dad can’t be the only one to evict a blood relative. William can do this, too!
This whole story is absurd. If they were hoping to say, “look the Sussexes aren’t the only ones who get evicted,” it misses the mark. The Sussexes had one home. That’s it. KFC has numerous homes. This house was only used 1-2 weeks a year and KFC wasn’t paying market rent the year round to the Duchy to keep it for those days. The Sussexes are no longer paying market rent on Frogmore Cottage. It sits there empty with no income to the Crown Estate.
I think this is just to manufacture some controversy between KFC and his heir. Maybe it’s supposed to make them less boring. KFC doesn’t want the house year round so he’s not using it any longer. The Duchy want to start renting it sooner rather than later and asked him to remove his belongings. Where’s the controversy?
Enbiggening William. This is the house that Charles ‘gave up’ because he didn’t think he would have the time to stay there. William might have given him a date to move his things out of the house. I guess since William flopped as a stateman, they are trying to make him sound like a businessman.