The tenants of Charles’s estate are forbidden to buy free property according to the laws “verified by the heir to the throne”

The tenants of Prince Charles’ private property were forbidden to buy the free ownership of their houses by laws “verified by the heir to the throne.”

Parts of the Duchy of Cornwall – a £ 1 billion investment and real estate portfolio – are exempt from two property laws, which give families the right to buy their homes directly.

Archive documents show that the exemptions were adopted after Charles was given the go-ahead for legislation in an obscure parliamentary process, The Guardian reported.

Exemptions mean that residents live in homes that are difficult to sell as the lease expires and they struggle to borrow.

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, meets with residents of the 250th affordable Guinness Partnership in Poundbury on May 8, 2015 in Dorchester, Dorset

Retired oil executive Alan Davis (pictured), a tenant of the Cornish Duchy of the Isle of Scilly, told the newspaper he could not buy the free property of the bungalow he bought in 1984.

But a Cornwall Duchy spokesman said: “Any claim that the Prince of Wales has unjustifiably blocked or influenced the law is incorrect.”

Retired oil executive Alan Davis, a tenant on the Duchy of Scilly, Cornwall, told the newspaper he could not buy the free property of the bungalow he bought in 1984.

It has been affected by an exemption from the Housing, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1993, which excludes Dartmoor, much of which is owned by the Duchy and the Isles of Scilly.

With less than 65 years left to conclude his lease, he is worried about the future value of his house, telling the Guardian: “The problem comes when you want to sell it. If the lease is reduced to something like 30 years, people will avoid it. ”

He added that it was “absolute nonsense”, he and other residents could not buy their houses directly from the duchy.

Another tenant, Jane Giddins, has lived in one of the prince’s houses in the 1996 village of Somerset in Newton St Loe.

She said that she and her husband “poured a lot of money and love into their renovation”, but that when they die our children will be left with a property that is very difficult to sell.

Ms Giddins told the newspaper: “The question is: why should the crown be allowed to continue a feudal system just because they want to?”

The oval cricket ground and Dartmoor Prison are just some of the properties owned by the Cornwall Duchy estate.

Created in 1337 by Edward III for his son Edward, the black prince, the main purpose of the duchy was to provide an income, independent of the monarch, for the apparent heir.

The Guardian also said the documents showed that Charles, who holds the title of Duke of Cornwall, also checked the Community and Housing Reform Act of 2002, which provided for exemptions that favored the duchy.

The Isles of Scilly, which is part of the Duchy of Cornwall

A spokesman for the Duchy of Cornwall said: “It is a long-standing convention for the Prince, as Duke of Cornwall, to be asked by Parliament to give approval to those bills which Parliament has decided would affect the interests of the Duchy. Cornwall.

“Where consent is required, the draft legislation shall, by convention, be made available to the Prince of Wales only on the advice of ministers and as a public matter.”

The spokesman added: “The Duke of Cornwall and the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall have any involvement in drafting legislation relating to (any) part of housing reform, including residential franchising.

“However, the Duchy is very careful to ensure that anyone who acquires a property in which the property belongs to the Duchy is aware of the restrictions that may be applied to their property as a result of the legislation.”