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The Royal Family raised £1.3m in farming subsidies over two years, with the King raising more than £765,000.

The Royal Family raised £1.3m from generous government farming subsidies in two years, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

King Charles was one of several high-profile landowners to benefit from the payments, along with businessman Sir James Dyson and presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

Designed to help farmers and landowners, the subsidies were a combination of EU and UK government funding, paid between October 2021 and October 2023.

Newly released figures show that Sandringham Farms, which comprises almost 15,000 acres of farmland in Norfolk and is personally owned by the monarch, racked up more than £765,000 in subsidies over two years.

Princess Anne earned £97,376 for her 700-acre Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire.

And the Duchy of Cornwall, which provides income to Prince William, received £72,713 in “rural development” grants.

The Royal Family has raised £1.3m from generous government farming subsidies in two years, with King Charles raising more than £765,000.

British inventor Sir James Dyson received £1.7m for his farms in Lincolnshire and Gloucestershire, and Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton claimed £82,720.

The payments were phased out after Brexit and farmers no longer receive subsidies for producing food. Instead, they can receive money for converting their fields into wildflower meadows or pastures.

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