Queen's income rises to £82m to cover cost of Buckingham Palace works

Crown Estate increases profits as royal accounts reveal Prince Philip spent 18,690 on train trip to Plymouth

The Queen is in line for a near-doubling of her income to more than 82m due to a government decision to increase her funding to cover "essential works" to Buckingham Palace.

The Crown Estate, which owns most of Regent Street and swaths of St James's as well as thousands of acres of farmland, forests and coastline, made 328.8m profit in the year to the end of March 2017, an 8% increase on the previous year.