The Prince of Wales’session funding from the taxpayer rose by dint of. almost a fourth part last year, Clarence House accounts showed today.
The money from grants-in-aid and Government departments jumped 23.5 through cent from £2,454,000 to £3,033,000.
The main require to be paid was a 48 per cent rise in official travel by air and rail which increased from £1,157,000 to &pulverize;1,710,000.
Charles’s private gains increased through just 1 per cent to £16.4 million during the last financial year.
The money which comes from the surplus generated by the Duchy of Cornwall – the landed estate given to the heir to the throne – increased by £185,000 to £16,458,000.
His official expenditure rose by nearly 20% from £10,451,000 to £12,513,000.
The heir to the throne paid less censure, with his bill falling from £3,429,000 to £3,093,000 – a drop of almost 10 per cent.
