We know the monarch paid £24.6m in tax over the last two years, but we still don’t know how wealthy he actually is Crown estate makes more than £1bn profit for third year running King and Queen will not live at Buckingham Palace after £369m refit King Charles has become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal how much tax he pays on his private income: £24.6m over the last two years. It’s a move celebrated by some as heralding an era of greater transparency from the monarchy. But just how open has it been?