How The Queen Owns A Primark, McDonald's & M&S - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Here’ s how the Queen owns a Primark McDonald’ s and M& S store By You Magazine - January 2, 2020 The Queen owns and is associated with some pretty impressive properties. There’s Buckingham Palace, for one, along with Windsor Castle, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle, to name but a few. So it may come as a surprise that under the property The Queen in theory owns includes a McDonald’s, a Primark store, and a Marks and Spencer’s. Confused? Allow us to explain… Among the Queen’s impressive and extensive empire is the Banbury Gateway Shopping Park, in Oxfordshire. The shopping park sits on land which belongs to The Crown Estate, and while she doesn’t personally own it, it is an area managed by the Crown Estate on behalf of Her Royal Highness. As well as a Primark and a McDonald’s, the shopping park also features a huge array of other stores, from Next to River Island. It sits on the edge of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, and is a main shopping hub for the nearby areas. Alamy Stock Photos The entirety of the Crown Estate portfolio is estimated to be worth a cool £14 billion, and belongs to the Sovereign. It will be passed down to Prince Charles when he becomes King, and then down to Prince William, and so on. The money made from each of the Crown Estate sites goes to the Treasury, rather than the Queen’s coffers. That means that in theory, profits raised by stores such as Primark and the McDonald’s on this estate go there. Interesting. If you think this is the first time The Queen has dabbled in the vast world of fast food, think again; she has actually previously owned another McDonald’s. The branch was based in Slough’s Bath Road Retail Park. The land was sold off a few years ago however, for the hefty sum of £177 million. We wonder what other unexpected wonders sit on The Queen’s land! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved