I thought I knew royal greed – but King Charles profiting from the assets of the dead is a disgusting new low | Norman Baker

For decades, parliament has been far too lenient about the royal family's finances. This avaricious practice needs to end

As a royal author, I have come across plentiful examples of royal greed. It is standard practice for the royals to seek to minimise their personal expenditure while maximising their income from other sources, normally the public purse.

But the revelation that King Charles III's personal slush fund, the Duchy of Lancaster, is having its already bulging coffers augmented by the estates of people who die in parts of England with historical links to the royal estate plumbs new depths of disgusting avarice.

Norman Baker was the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015

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