Revisited: Cost of the crown part 6 – how King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, it's Norshine here. Hello, it's Norshein here. |
| 0:12.0 | Very happy New Year to you all. We wanted to revisit the stories from |
| 0:16.3 | 2023, so you're about to hear how King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens, which came out in November. |
| 0:24.4 | I spoke to the Guardian's investigations correspondent, Maave McClenigan, |
| 0:28.2 | about an archaic custom which allows the King's estate to absorb the assets of people in the north of England |
| 0:34.4 | who die without a will or a known next of kin. AI might be the most important new computer technology ever. The problem is that AI needs |
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| 1:25.0 | So it was over summer this year I set off to Burnley, drove up from my home in the northwest to try and find anyone who remembered |
| 1:36.9 | a woman called Val Taylor. |
| 1:38.4 | She's actually one of the first names I found who was on one of these lists of people who died interstate. |
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