King Charles’s tax bill: what did we learn, and what is still in the dark?

We know the monarch paid £24.6m in tax over the last two years, but we still don’t know how wealthy he actually is

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King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years.

It’s a move celebrated by some as heralding an era of greater transparency from the monarchy. But just how open has it been?

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