BEFORE we get caught up in the hysteria following the arrival of a new Prince or Princess of Cambridge, I would like to put on record my disgust that the hard-pressed taxpayer is footing the estimated £1m cost of refurbishment to William and Kate Cambridge’s, pictured, 20-room, four-storey luxury apartment at Kensington Palace.
It seems crazy to me that at the same time tens of thousands of British people are having their housing benefit reduced by either 14 per cent or 25 per cent thanks to the ‘bedroom tax’ because they are considered to be over-occupying their properties.
How can this be right? Why the Queen or Prince Charles can’t meet the costs themselves out of their own private income is beyond me.
Prince Charles’s Duchy of Cornwall has recently been criticised because it is exempt from paying corporation tax and capital gains tax. Its value in 2011 was £728m.
I wonder whether Mr Cameron still thinks we’re all in this together?
ANDREW CARTER Burford Road Witney
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