After being called Britain’s billionaire, with a $2billion fortune, the monarch has just turned incredibly squirmy and anguished behind the scenes, but the answer isn’t what most people think.
In King Charles’ eyes, he “hates talking about money and always has,” a source has just come forward to explain.
That is precisely the reason why “to have himself publicly labeled a billionaire feels to him like an invasion of privacy and a misunderstanding of how royal finances actually work. He finds it deeply embarrassing.”
Furthermore, he is also having trouble accepting the fact that his inheritance has been “displayed, dissected or reduced to a headline figure” when to him he is not at all “some kind of super-rich tycoon hoarding wealth.”
Instead “from his perspective, what he has inherited are centuries-old estates and obligations tied to the crown, not a private bankroll to be displayed, dissected or reduced to a headline figure.”
Plus in terms of legalities, and what the King actually ‘owns’ or can dispense at will, its said that the Crown Estates are not one of them. That is why, because he fully understands how “jarring” those figures appear to the public, especially at a time of widespread financial strain, he is ‘irritated’ by the way the numbers are “casually bandied about, stripped of context and nuance.”
Plus, according to one of his pals, as revealed b RadarOnline, “he grew up with the firm belief that talking openly about money was in poor taste. Seeing his finances scrutinized and analyzed in the same way as those of a Silicon Valley billionaire leaves him profoundly uncomfortable.”
All in all, that same source concluded by noting that, to the monarch “the fixation on his alleged billionaire status pulls focus away from the duties he is meant to uphold. In his view, it diminishes the dignity of the monarchy and encourages comparisons that distort the nature of the role he occupies.”
Furthermore, according to an aide, “He never aspired to be seen as the wealthiest monarch of the modern era – he wanted his legacy to be defined by responsibility and service. Being branded a billionaire makes him feel as though his private financial affairs have been exposed without his consent.”