The Crown and its estate

At Comment Is Free, Sally Bercow : Her Majesty lives in Buckingham Palace. She also has homes at Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral and Holyrood. This is all well and good, and I don't begrudge her it (much)... My beef is that it's a bit rich for the crown estate to be planning the sell-off of other people's homes: the 1,300 crown estate properties lived in, for an affordable rent, by nurses, firefighters, hospital workers and police officers; by ordinary families who have made an enormous contribution to London's community life over many decades. I appreciate that Her Majesty does not run the crown estate herself. But I hope she is aware of the plan to sell the freehold to four of its London housing estates – in Camden, Lewisham, Pimlico and Hackney - and of how unpopular it is. Read the rest , then check out local coverage here , here and here .