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There are 36 billion acres of land on the planet, there is no way the Queen owns 1/6th of it.

More details here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/15996/does-quee...

Thanks for clarifying. I hadn’t thought to check that figure. Looks to be 2.5 billion ‘in name only’.

People should also look into the crown estate which is worth billions and the Royals directly receive 25% of the income. I think the spirit of the original point still stands.

https://www.dw.com/en/the-crown-estate-the-mysterious-proper...

That’s interesting, but it only applies to the Crown Estate organisation particular to the UK, so only 0.06 billion acres. The other organisations linked to the Crown are separate legal bodies with other rules (and often just equivalent to the national government).

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