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8 Mar, 6 tweets, 4 min read
👑🧵/ Last night's #Megxit interview, in which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share details of life after being financially cut off from the monarchy, renews attention on the royal family's enormous wealth, private estates, and how those assets are shielded from public view.
2/ Last month, @guardian revealed that Queen Elizabeth successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in the 1970s in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public as part of the 'Queen's consent' investigation. bit.ly/3cZkmXv
3/ In 2017, ICIJ's #ParadisePapers investigation revealed that Queen Elizabeth's private estate, the Duchy of Lancaster, indirectly invested in a rent-to-own loan company accused of predatory tactics via the Cayman Islands. bit.ly/2ODFIPG
4/ #ParadisePapers also showed that Prince Charles’ private estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, held an undisclosed stake in an offshore company directed by a friend of the royal — that could have benefited from a climate-related rule change he campaigned for. bit.ly/38mVUfp
5/ The British monarch's controversial offshore connections uncovered in #ParadisePapers made @MSN's list of the biggest royal family scandals of the last century. bit.ly/3v5SUO5
6/ 💸 Want more royal scoops?

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🚨Today we added 18 new members to our ICIJ family! 😀

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