#KingCharles inherited 45,667 acres of land (without having to pay inheritance tax)

The Crown owns 226,000 acres across the UK

After the #Queen died, we unveiled our proposal for a new memorial park in London: the #QueenElizabethMemorialGardens

All we need is 2 acres of land👇 ImageImageImageImage
Our vision is to create a place of tranquility in a walled garden carved from a sliver of the 42-acre Buckingham Palace Gardens: a living legacy to #QueenElizabeth

It’ll also be an act of care towards London & its ecosystem #QueenElizabethMemorialGardens
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Originally conceived to to mark the #Queen’s 90th birthday, the idea for #QueenElizabethMemorialGardens has been developed over many years

The gardens would include woodland, wild flowers, a butterfly meadow as well as a statue of #QueenElizabeth.
When it was unveiled the proposal for #QueenElizabethMemorialGardens got widespread positive feedback from people in London & beyond (including from @ZackPolanski)

We’d love to build on that enthusiasm & get you involved in the campaign

What features would you like in the park? Image
As well as building public support for #QueenElizabethMemorialGardens we’d love to get an official response to proposal from #KingCharles

In 2015 @ClarenceHouse told us Charles “was interested to learn of the idea”

We sent the proposal again last October

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Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali was killed in an ‘auto accident’

Swazi lawyer Thulani Maseko was shot

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He was abducted, electrocuted, sodomised, stripped naked & dumped in a quarry!
#journalismisnotacrime #Cameroon @PR_Paul_BIYA
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1/. The body of Cameroonian journalist, Martinez Zogo, who regularly spoke out about corruption, was found on the outskirts of Yaoundé ystdy

His murder can be added to a growing list of journalists killed with impunity in Cameroon. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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@FreefromTorture post the video

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The clip was edited, but there was no misrepresentation
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If you’re shocked by this, you should be

If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying enough attention

It’s is part of an ongoing populist strategy
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Tmw, two humanitarian workers @sean_binder_ & @SarahMardini44 will go on trial in Greece

They face +25 years in jail

Their “crime”?

Saving refugees & asylum seekers at sea

Sara’s story is told in a new @netflix film👇
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