Royal Family raked in £1.3million in farm subsidies over two years – with the King raking in more than £765,000

The Royal Family raked in £1.3 million from generous government farm subsidies in two years, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

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

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

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

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

And the Duchy of Cornwall, which provides an income to Prince William, received £72,713 in ‘rural development’ subsidies.

British inventor Sir James Dyson received £1.7 million 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 get subsidies for producing food. Instead, they can receive money for turning their fields into wildflower meadows or grassland.