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The arms of the Duchy of Cornwall: Sable, fifteen bezants

康沃爾公國 是英格蘭現在僅有的兩個公國中的一個, 另一個是蘭開斯特公國（英語：Duchy of Lancaster）。英國君主的長子在出生時或者他的父母願意放該項權利時會獲得該公國並且獲得康沃爾公爵稱號。如果君主並沒有兒子，那麼該公國將由國王擁有,並且將不存在康沃爾公爵。現任公爵是 威爾斯親王查爾斯王子.

The principal activity of the duchy is the management of its land and properties. The duchy has a financial investment portfolio and owns land totalling 540.9 km² (or 208.9 sq. mi.). 一半在 德文郡，另外一部分在 康沃爾郡,赫里福德郡, 薩默塞特郡 和威爾斯.[1][2] 在2013年3月31日結束的財年裡，康沃爾公國估值7.63億英鎊，年利潤為1900萬英鎊，收益較上一年度增長了4.1%。[3] The government considers the duchy to be a crown body and therefore exempt from paying corporation tax. The tax position of the duchy has been challenged by British republicans.[4]

Foundation

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The duchy was established in 1337 out of the former earldom of Cornwall by Edward III for his son, Edward, Prince of Wales, the "Black Prince", who became the first Duke of Cornwall. The duchy consisted of two parts: the title and honour, and the landed estate that supported it financially.[5] The core of the estate at its foundation was the 17 duchy manors found within the county. The duchy does not share the same boundaries as the county, and much of the estate has always been outside those boundaries. However, the duchy maintains a special relationship with Cornwall, and maintains various rights, such as that of appointing the county's High Sheriff. The extent of the estate has varied as various holdings have been sold and acquired over the years, both within Cornwall and also in other counties.[6]

The subsequent charter of Henry IV to Prince Henry stated:

"We have made and created Henry our most dear first-begotten Son, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, and have given and granted, and by our Charter have confirmed to him the said Principality, Duchy, and Earldom, that he may preside there, and by presiding, may direct and defend the said parts. We have invested him with the said Principality, Duchy, and Earldom, per sertum in capite et annulum in digito aureum ac virgam auream juxta morem."

By this charter, all the manors of the earldom passed to the duchy and are known as the Antiqua maneria.

The duchy in the Interregnum, 1649–1660

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On the death of King Charles I, the Crown lands came under the control of Parliament; this lasted until the restoration of King Charles II in 1660.[7]

Property

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The largest rural portfolio office at Newton St Loe, near Bath. This is the office of the Eastern District, centralised finance and property services, and the Estate Surveyor.

The duchy owns 133,658 acres of land (around 54,090 hectares) over 23 counties, including farming, residential, and commercial properties, as well as an investment portfolio.[8][9] In modern times, the considerable income from the duchy has been the primary source of income for the Prince of Wales, both as to personal funds and public and charitable work.[8]

The duchy was created with the express purpose of providing income to the heir apparent to the throne; thus, it traditionally goes to the eldest son of the reigning monarch. Although the duke owns the income from the estate, he does not own the estate outright and does not have the right to sell capital assets for his own benefit.[10]

In 2010, the duchy generated £17.1 million in income. In 1913 the Government Law Officers gave an opinion that the Duke of Cornwall is not liable to taxation on income from the Duchy.[11][12] However, since 1993 Prince Charles has voluntarily agreed to pay income tax at the normal rates (see: Finances of the British Royal Family). Approximately half of this income was spent on public and charitable works.[10]

Since the passing into law of the Sovereign Grant Act 2011, revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall will pass to the heir to the throne, regardless of whether that heir is the Duke of Cornwall. In the event that the heir is a minor, 10% of the revenues will pass to the heir, with the balance passing to the Crown.[13]

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Both the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster — since 1399 held by the monarch in a personal capacity—have special legal rights not available to other landed estates: for example, the rules on bona vacantia, the right to ownerless property, operate in favour of the holders of the duchies rather than the Crown, such that the property of anyone who dies in the county of Cornwall without a will or identifiable heirs, and assets belonging to dissolved companies whose registered office was in Cornwall, pass to the duchy.[14][15] In 2007, £130,000 was realised from the right of bona vacantia, and given to a charitable fund. The duke owns freehold about three-fifths of the Cornish foreshore and the 'fundus', or bed, of navigable rivers and has right of wreck on all ships wrecked on Cornish shores, including those afloat offshore, and also to "Royal fish", i.e. whales, porpoises, and sturgeon.[16] The Duchy of Cornwall is the Harbour Authority for St Mary's Harbour.[17] There are separate attorneys-general for the duchies. The High Sheriff of Cornwall is appointed by the Duke of Cornwall, not the monarch, in contrast to the other counties of England and Wales.[18] The duke had a ceremonial role in summoning the Cornish Stannary Parliament.

In Bruton v. ICO the first tier tribunal found that the duchy was a public authority for the purposes of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.[19] The Guardian reported in 2011 that, since 2005, the Prince of Wales has been asked to give his consent to a number of draft bills on matters ranging from town planning to gambling, because it could affect the interests of the Duchy of Cornwall. Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives, commented that "The duchy asserts that it is merely a private estate. Most people will be astonished to learn that it appears to have effective powers of veto over the government."[20] Writing in the Guardian, lawyer David Gollancz commented that: "The duchy exercises a unique range of legal powers, which elsewhere are reserved for the crown.... It seems anomalous, and worrying, that such a huge estate, created and conferred by law and exercising significant legal powers, should be able to escape public scrutiny by calling itself a private estate."[21] The requirement for the Prince of Wales to give consent to draft bills that could affect the interests of the Duchy of Cornwall is not a new power granted to Prince Charles, but a centuries-old parliamentary practice that involved the same requirement for consent being conferred on previous Dukes of Cornwall (see Prince's Consent).

Following the ruling that the duchy was separate from Prince Charles for the purposes of regulation, Republic, the campaign for an elected head of state, has asked HM Revenue and Customs to investigate if the duchy should still be exempt from tax. The tax exemption is based on the assumption that the duchy estate is inseparable from the tax exempt person of Prince Charles, which is now open to question.[22]

For some Cornish activists, Cornwall itself is described, de jure, as a duchy as opposed to an ordinary county, and the duchy estates are distinguished from the duchy itself, having themselves been annexed and united to "the aforesaid duchy".[23] The Royal Commission on the Constitution in 1973 recommended that Cornwall be officially referred to as "the duchy" on what it described as "appropriate occasions" given the nature of the county's "special relationship" with the Crown.[24][25] The designation is sometimes found used informally in respect of the county as whole.

Historically all justices of the Assizes who visited Cornwall were also permanent members of the Prince's Council which oversees the Duchy of Cornwall and advises the Duke. There are on record at least three instances in which the prince over-ruled the king by instructing his officials to ignore or disobey orders issued to them by the King's Chancery.[26]

Taxation

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The government considers the duchy to be a crown body and therefore exempt from paying corporation tax. The tax position of the duchy has been challenged by British republicans.[27] Since 1993, the Prince of Wales has voluntarily paid income tax on the duchy income less amounts which he considers to be official expenditure.[28] The Prince paid a voluntary contribution to the treasury of 50% of his Duchy income from the time he became eligible for its full income at the age of 21 in 1969, and paid 25% from his marriage in 1981 until the current arrangement commenced in 1993. Tax is calculated after deducting official expenditure, the biggest source of which is the Prince's staff of about 110 who assist with his performance of official duties, including private secretaries and a valet working in his office at Clarence House and at Highgrove House. The official expenditure of the Prince of Wales is not audited by the National Audit Office.

Coat of arms

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The armorial bearings of the Duchy of Cornwall are:[29]

Arms: Sable, fifteen bezants Or.

Supporters: On either side a Cornish chough proper [beaked and legged gules],[30] supporting an ostrich feather Argent, penned Or.

Motto: Houmont[29] (or Houmout).[31][32][33]

The shield is ensigned by the Heir Apparent's coronet. The supporters were granted by Royal Warrant of 21 June 1968.[29]

Loyal Toast

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Traditionally Cornish people refer to the Duke of Cornwall in the Loyal Toast, much like the Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands.[34]

Offices

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Prince of Wales visits Llwynywermod near Myddfai
  2. ^ Barnett, Antony (30 January 2005). "The prince of property and his £460m business empire", The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2008
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Written Evidence to the House of Commons
  5. ^ About the Duchy: Duchy of Cornwall official site
  6. ^ "History of the Duchy". Duchy of Cornwall official site
  7. ^ Madge, Sidney J. (1938) The Domesday of Crown Lands. London: Routledge
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 The Prince of Wales website, http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/finances/index.html
  9. ^ A Royal Duchy, A Portrait of the Duchy of Cornwall, David Burnett, page 9
  10. ^ 10.0 10.1 Id.
  11. ^ 1913 Opinion on the Duchy of Cornwall by the Law Officers of the Crown and Mr W Finley. Confirm or Deny (22 February 1999). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  12. ^ http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/PLR/vol3/Kirkhope.pdf
  13. ^ [2] UK Treasury page on the Sovereign Grant Act
  14. ^ About Bona Vacantia. Treasury Solicitor. [1 August 2012]. 
  15. ^ Management and Finances – Bona Vacantia. Duchy of Cornwall official site. [1 August 2012]. 
  16. ^ Kirkhope, above.
  17. ^ Duchy of Cornwall, Isles of Scilly links archived page
  18. ^ John Kirkhope, "The Duchy of Cornwall – A very Peculiar 'private estate'", Cornish World(Feb/Mar 2009).
  19. ^ [3][失效連結]
  20. ^ Booth, Robert (30 October 2011), "Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12 government bills since 2005", The Guardian. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  21. ^ Gollancz, David (30 October 2011). "Prince Charles's legislation veto shows the duchy is no ordinary private estate", The Guardian. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  22. ^ Robert Booth. Prince Charles's 700m estate accused of tax avoidance. The Guardian. 14 December 2012 [15 December 2012]. 
  23. ^ The reports of Sir Edward Coke, knt: in thirteen parts, Volume 1; By Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas, John Farquhar Fraser, Stephen (INT) Sheppard
  24. ^ Kilbrandon Report, The Times, 1 November 1973
  25. ^ Kilbrandon Report paragraph 329 – 1969–73 the Royal Commission on the Constitution (Kilbrandon Report) had this to say about Cornwall—under "National feeling"
  26. ^ Pearse, Richard. Aspects of Cornwall's PastDyllansow Truran, Redruth, 1983, p52.
  27. ^ Written Evidence to the House of Commons
  28. ^ Memorandum of Understanding on Royal Taxation, attached to the Report of the Royal Trustees, 11 February 1993 (HC464)
  29. ^ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Briggs, Geoffrey, Civic and Corporate Heraldry (1971), p122
  30. ^ Fox-Davies, AC, The Complete Guide to Heraldry (1909), p248
  31. ^ "The Black Prince". Luminarium Internet Project.
  32. ^ Brooke-Little, JP, Boutell's Heraldry (1978), p281
  33. ^ Seeing Symbols: The origins of the Duchy Originals' logo
  34. ^ Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons Official Report, Standing Committees Session 1972–73, Volume VI, H.M. Stationery Office.
  35. ^ J. C. D. Clark, The Memoirs and Speeches of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave 1742–1763, Cambridge University Press, 2002
  36. ^ Robert Folkestone Williams, Domestic Memoirs of the Royal Family and of the Court of England: Chiefly at Shene and Richmond, Hurst and Blackett, 1860
  37. ^ Lives of Learned and Eminent Men: Taken from Authentic Sources, 1823
  38. ^ Edmund Lodge, The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications Pf the Nobility, by Edmund Lodge, to which is Added a View of the Baronetage of the Three Kingdoms, Saunders and Otley, 1834
  39. ^ Francis Jones, The Princes and principality of Wales, University of Wales Press, 1969
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