We then dug down into the land plots we had identified and developed a list of 321 residential properties that name the king as the freehold title owner. We found estimated valuation figures for 284 of those properties on Zoopla. We then reduced the sum of those rental properties to reflect the fact they were tenanted, reducing them to a conservative 75% of the likely sale price. To establish exactly what properties existed on the Sandringham estate, we went through titles in the Land Registry to create a database of the plots of land that make up the estate.

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We presented our findings to two land valuation experts, who provided detailed estimates on the value of these landholdings and properties. Searching for these land title plots on Who Owns Norfolk and the Land App allowed us to identify which were farmland, and the acreage of each plot. Satellite images from Google Earth helped to establish that these were probably arable farms. We ain’t got any loft insulation, we’ve still got metal windows, we ain’t got a firewall [in the loft]. Lots of the things we haven’t got, we should have. Any other landlord would be had up for doing what they’re doing. But … you can’t take the queen to court,” he said.Behind her blue door in Dersingham, Gwen Leary is content. She has lived in the same house for 23 years. Like many in the area, she is a royalist, and she enjoys the fact that the monarch is her private landlord. Tom Sheils, who runs the Who Owns Norfolk blog and produced a public map of the Sandringham estate, said in response to the Guardian’s findings: “It’s public knowledge that the royal family is one of Norfolk’s major landowners, but … there is no easy way to find out exactly how many properties the king might own … [nor] how the land is held or anything else associated with its ownership.” Residents’ perks and restrictions