El Cid Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 The Queen is said to be the worlds largest land owner, she is the legal owner of approximately 6,600 MILLION ACRES of land; according to various web sites. That is a lot of land, has she ever sold any of it? Does she really own it? Perhaps that is why we are not building enough houses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC33 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Sure it's not 6,660 million hectares of land---- makes more sense. But the masses worship her--- for what? In 1984 private ownership will be strictly outlawed. The ruling elite will own everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzijlstra Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Considering that the earth is 510 million square kilometres including uninhabitable land, and there are 247 acres in a square kilometre, I think we can safely put this down to cloud cuckoo land. If we assume it is 6,6 billion acres (6600000000) than keep in mind that most of this is likely to be completely useless land in the wilderness of Canada and the outback of Australia. Even Balmoral is only 50,000 acres. So whatever way you look at it, it is a load of cobbledicock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Sounds like a right old load of crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 (edited) The world's total land mass consists of 36.8 billion acres of inhabitable land. An incredible 21 percent of this land is owned by a short list of landowners, according to The New Statesman. Of course that includes the Queen of England, who nominally owns places like Canada and Australia. Nominally owns can be translated as, doesn't really own. Land: 6.6 billion acres of land worldwide including Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia and a few other spots here and there. Also, the all-important Falkland Islands. I don't think this is at all correct, she doesn't have legal title to all the land in GB or NI... Edited May 28, 2015 by Cyclone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 She in no ways owns them, they have her as the head of state, but thats about it. Might as well claim she owns the moon as well for all the truth in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413406 Details in this thread. Land can revert back to the crown if there are no legal heirs to it. Which is not quite the same as the crown owning it in the 1st place... (IMO). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Nominally owns can be translated as, doesn't really own. I don't think this is at all correct, she doesn't have legal title to all the land in GB or NI... She personally has legal title to relativly very little land - she does own Sandringham for example in a personal capacity - not sure about Balmoral and Windsor. As the personification of the Crown however she owns vast amounts of Canada - about 90% of all land is provincial which means it is directly owned by the Crown of Canada. The same situation is true for Australia although each area of land is held in right of the Crown for each of the Commonwealths of Australia. Since Canada is the second largest country, and Oz is effectivly a continent I can well accept 6 and a half billion acres... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timeh Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 She personally has legal title to relativly very little land - she does own Sandringham for example in a personal capacity - not sure about Balmoral and Windsor. . No, we own Windsor, us the public. I know we do because she said we do that time it burnt down. Yeah, its the nations palace she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 No, we own Windsor, us the public. I know we do because she said we do that time it burnt down. Yeah, its the nations palace she said. Looks like the Crown owns Windsor and the Queen personally owns Balmoral after a bit of digging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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