The Crown Estate has been charging the RNLI more than £60,000 a year to launch its own lifeboats, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The news comes despite a U-turn last year by the Duchy of Cornwall, the historic estate set up in 1337 and now owned by Prince William, which waived the rents on six RNLI stations, along with school playing fields and village halls, amid public outcry over royal finances. More than £10,000 in rental charges were scrapped.
Now the MoS has learnt that the Crown Estate, which owns more than half of the foreshore and much of the seabed
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