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Royals should not get exemption from leasehold laws, say campaigners

MINISTERS are facing growing pressure to include royal estates in reform of leasehold laws which give homeowners a better deal. The Crown is set to keep feudal rights, dating back almost 1,000 years.

Crown property the Isles of Scilly Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again.Labour's Lord Berkeley said he intended to ask for meetings with ministers to pressure them to give the same rights to people on the Isles of Scilly as elsewhere.He said: "There's no written evidence the Duchy owns the Isles of Scilly at all.Their call came after the Daily Express revealed that the Government wants to exempt the Queen's and Prince Charles's estates from reforms.

In a letter to Alan and Glen Davis, whose plight was highlighted in the Daily Express last week, he said that he would raise the issue when it comes up in Parliament.A Tory MP and a Labour peer are backing campaigners who want property owners in the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster and on the Crown Estate to benefit too.

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