King Charles has been accused of profiting from the dead as insiders claim his property empire is using their assets as ‘free money’ and a ‘slush fund’. The monarch’s private estate the Duchy of Lancaster has long collected assets owned by people who died in its jurisdiction without a will or next of kin in a feudal system known as ‘bona vacantia’. In the past decade it has collected more than £60million which - after costs - is said be distributed to charities set up by the late Queen. These