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Harold Evans, former editor of the Sunday Times, has revealed that when he took the job he was told by the proprietor that there was only one limit to his journalistic freedom: he would not be allowed to criticise Elizabeth Windsor, Britain’s feudal head of state.

The revelation was made in an interview on CNN’s Amanpour programme.

Mr. Evans is highly regarded for the investigative journalism that the Sunday Times practiced under his editorship. However, his confession is further evidence that the private as well as state news media have denied a voice to republicans. The dominant BBC state broadcasting network has a long record of promoting the feudal institution of monarchy.

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Taxpayers are funding a staff of six for two grandsons of the hereditary head of state, it has been revealed. This is to allow William and Henry Windsor to carry out more duties on behalf of their mother, Elizabeth Windsor.

The money for the office is being taken from the Duchy of Windsor. The Duchy is public property but the eldest son of the head of state, currently Charles Windsor, is given the income. In 2008 that was £16m. The government has agreed to a request that Mr. Windsor should be exempt from tax on income used to finance the office for this sons.

The source of the revelation is a Treasury briefing note released following a Freedom of Information request. The note as published by the Treasury disclosed the tax break for Charles Windsor. But parts were blacked-out. One sentence the government believed should be withheld from the citizens it serves read "The princes will increasingly incur expenditure when undertaking engagements on behalf of" their grandmother. Another blacked-out section shows that the tax break was instigated by the Windsors, through Michael Peat, the private secretary of Charles Windsor.

The Sunday Mail says that this revelation gives weight to the belief that Elizabeth Windsor had decided that her grandson William should be Britain’s next head of state. Normally, Charles Windsor would inherit this public office However, the Windsors fear that this would put at risk the continuation of their feudal privileges as there is widespread contempt for Charles. The people of Britain have no say in who their country’s figurehead should be.

Evidence in support of the Mail’s claim is given by the planned visit of William Windsor to New Zealand for three days in January next year to officially open that country’s new Supreme Court building.

The New Zealand Monarchist League claims that the conduct of the ceremony by a representative of a foreign feudal family will be "a powerful symbol of the independence of the Courts." This has been disputed by the New Zealand Republican Movement. It believes that it would be better for the head of the country’s judiciary or the governor-general to open the new building.

Mr. Windsor has recently been described as like "a redneck from the south" by American rock singer Pink after he dismissed her complaint about his support for fox hunting. Pink said she had expected him to be just a "stuffy, privileged asshole".

Both of Elizabeth Windsor’s grandsons hold the status of "prince" under Britain’s feudal system.

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The Church of England, a church firmly rooted in feudalism and with a prominent place in Britain’s feudal constitution, is not ashamed to take advantage of its feudal privileges. One unfortunate couple found this out when the Anglicans decided to use a feudal law to extract £230,00 from them to repair one of its churches.

Gail and Andrew Wallbank also lost £250,000 in legal expenses as the Anglicans fought for the money all the way to the supreme court.

Gail Wallbank inherited Glebe Farm in the 1980s. In 1990 the Parochial Church Council wrote to them demanding that they pay for the repair of a part of the local church building known as a chancel.

The Church could make this demand because of a medieval law that required local people to contribute to the upkeep of the church. The Wallbanks’ farm included 7 acres of land that still had that requirement attached to it. It has been estimated that there are 3.5m more acres that are covered by similar requirements that the state church could enforce to boost its finances

The couple believed that if they paid the Church of England it would come back year after year for more. So instead of playing the part of serfs, as the feudal Church demanded, they fought all the way in the courts.

After 18 years of litigation the feudal Church beat the Wallbanks in another feudal institution, the House of Lords. Until 2009 the supreme court was a part of that legislative chamber.

The "Law Lords" overruled an Appeal Court decision that the Church had breached the Wallbanks’ human rights with its unreasonable demands for money. Because Parochial Church Councils, although part of a state church, are not considered to be public bodies they are exempt from human rights guarantees said the highest court of appeal.

When they lost the Wallbanks had to sell their home to meet pay the Church and their legal fees

Gail Wallbank told the Daily Express that what the Anglicans had done was "completely against Christian principles".

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