It remains the private property of the monarch, and is not part of the Crown Estate.

Balmoral is a private property and, unlike the monarch's official residences, is not part of the state-owned Crown Estate.

This law conferred the Chequers Estate owned by Sir Arthur and Lady Lee, as a gift to the Crown for use as a country home for future Prime Ministers.

Until 1760 the monarch met all official expenses from hereditary revenues, which included the profits of the Crown Estate ( the royal property portfolio ).

The Crown Estate is one of the largest property owners in the United Kingdom, with holdings of £ 7. 3 billion in 2011.

In modern times, the profits surrendered from the Crown Estate have exceeded the Civil List and Grants-in-Aid.

For example, the Crown Estate produced £ 200 million for the Treasury in the financial year 2007 – 8, whereas reported parliamentary funding for the monarch was £ 40 million during the same period, and republicans estimate that the real cost of the monarchy including security is between £ 134 and 184 million a year.

From 2013 until 2020, the Civil List and Grants-in-Aid are to be replaced with a single Sovereign Grant, which will be set at 15 % of the revenues generated by the Crown Estate.

Like the Crown Estate, the land and assets of the Duchy of Lancaster, a property portfolio valued at £ 383 million in 2011, are held in trust.

The Duchy of Lancaster continues to exist as a separate entity from the Crown Estate and currently provides income for the monarch, Elizabeth II.

The freehold of a large section of Mayfair also belongs to the Crown Estate.

The remaining properties are either owned by English Heritage, other government departments or the Crown Estate.

Extensive forests cover more than 20 % of the total area, consisting principally of parts of Windsor Forest ; predominantly conifer plantation owned and managed by the Crown Estate and Forestry Commission.

The National Nature Reserve was created in 1967 from 1, 700 ha ( 4, 200 acres ) of the Holkham Estate and 2, 200 ha ( 5, 400 acres ) of foreshore belonging to the Crown.

In October 2010 MeyGen, a consortium of Morgan Stanley, Atlantis Resources Corporation and International Power, received operational lease from the Crown Estate to a 400MW project for 25 years.

Although such escheated property is owned by the Crown, it is not part of the Crown Estate, unless the Crown ( through the Crown Estate Commissioners ) ' completes ' the escheat, by taking steps to exert rights as owner.

In 1914 it was transferred from the Merioneth Crown Estate to the control of the Office of Works, who commenced a major restoration project after the end of World War I.

London District is responsible for the maintenance of capability for the defence of the capital and the provision of ceremonial units and garrisons for the Crown Estate in London, such as the Tower of London.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

The phrase " Ηρακλείς του στέμματος " (" Defenders of the Crown ") has pejorative connotations (" chief henchmen ") in Greek.

In the Divisio Regnorum of 806, Charlemagne had slated Charles the Younger as his successor as emperor and chief king, ruling over the Frankish heartland of Neustria and Austrasia, while giving Pepin the Iron Crown of Lombardy, which Charlemagne possessed by conquest.

In Australia the Attorney-General is the chief law officer of the Crown and a member of the Cabinet.

The Attorney General is the chief law officer of the Crown.

The Attorney General for England and Wales is similarly the chief law officer of the Crown in England and Wales, and advises and represents the Crown and government departments in court.

The Attorney General of the Duchy of Cornwall is the chief legal adviser to the Prince of Wales, and there is a separate Attorney General for the Duchy of Lancaster, an appointment that is held by the Crown.

In practice, the Crown follows the convention of exercising its prerogative on the advice of its chief advisor, the prime minister.

Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.

The Act divided Ireland into two territories, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, each intended to be self-governing, except in areas specifically reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom: chief amongst these were matters relating to the Crown, to defence, foreign affairs, international trade, and currency.

We live at the period when for the first time since the Revolution, the power and influence of the Crown is held out, as the main and chief and only support of Government.

The chief minister of Henry VIII, the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer suggested removal of the Roman Catholic papacy's imperium in imperio ( Latin equivalent of state in the state ) by requesting that Parliament pass the Act in Restraint of Appeals ( 1533 ) specifying that England was an empire and that The Crown was imperial, and a year later the Act of Supremacy proclaiming the Imperial Crown Protector and Supreme Head of the Church of England.

The Secretary of State is a Minister of the Crown who is accountable to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is the chief minister in the Northern Ireland Office.

He was attended by his council, headed by the temporary Chancellor ... the new chief justice ... the royal chancery ... Their formidable task in Chelmsford was to draft, engross, date, seal and despatch by messengers riding to the farthest corners of the realm, the daily batches of commissions, mandates, letters, orders and proclamations issued by the government not only to speed the process of pacification of the kingdom, but to conduct much ordinary day to day business of the Crown and Government.

Blazon: " Azure, two Dalecarlian Arrows Or in saltire point upwards pointed Argent and in chief a Crown of the first ".

Thus during the second half of the 15th century the chief taxes, the taille, aids and gabelle became definitely permanent for the benefit of the Crown, sometimes by the formal consent of the Estates-General, as in 1437 in the case of the aids.

But now, when everything depended on a concentration of forces, Charles ' imprudent assumption of the title of " King of the Lapps of Nordland " which people properly belonged to the Danish Crown, involved him in another war with Denmark, a war known in Scandinavian history as the Kalmar War because the Swedish fortress of Kalmar was the chief theatre of hostilities.

The Privy Council, not the parliament, was the chief loser by the change ; and, inasmuch as henceforth the Councillors were appointed by the king, and were to be responsible to him alone ; a Council in opposition to the Crown was barely conceivable.

Originally, the Chancellor was the chief officer in the daily management of the Duchy of Lancaster and the County Palatine of Lancaster ( a county palatine merged into the Crown in 1399 ), but that estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the Chancellor to serve in effect as an additional Minister without Portfolio.

The commander in chief of the German III army ( Crown Prince Frederick ) now appeared on the field and ordered Kirchbach to stand fast until the pressure of the XI corps and of the Württemberg division could take effect against the French right wing.

Learney considered clans to be a " noble incorporation " because the arms borne by a clan chief are granted or otherwise recognised by the Lord Lyon as an officer of the Crown, thus conferring royal recognition of the entire clan.

The Army of Thessaly ( Στρατιά Θεσσαλίας ) was placed under Crown Prince Constantine, with Lt Gen Panagiotis Danglis as his chief of staff.