I love the way that "profitability" of stolen royal estates is used as a argument in favour of the monarchy. Anyone like to make a case for Rachmann-style landlordism (or, indeed, the landlordism of today in London that routinely puts up rents to take the whole of the tenant's housing benefit)? Very profitable! What about the vast profits made by banks that won't lend money to small businesses? I'm certain that the monarchy makes healthy profits from its historical ill-gotten gains, but what sort of justification is that? I once read, in an idle moment in Morrisons, the label of a pack of premium Duchy Originals bangers (the dearest sausages on the shelf). Not a single bloody ingredient came from anywhere near the Duchy!