[thechat] Harry Potter

[Martin Burns]

On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 01:37  am, John Handelaar wrote:

>>> The woman's close to being richer than the Queen of England.
>>
>> Richer already.
>
> Bullshit story of the week.
>
> Brenda's net worth is in the range of $4.5 billion.

Depends on how you calculate it (and historically, they've calculated 
it on the low side), as there are a lot of assets which are somewhat 
confused. Do they belong to the monarch personally, or to the monarchy 
as part of the national asset?

If the monarchy is indeed the family firm it sometimes views itself as, 
do the assets belong to the firm, or to the directors?

There's another whole question about which of the personal assets could 
be disposed of...

Cheers
Martin