PRINCE CHARLES has just had a pay rise – perhaps the only person in Britain who has.

His £298,000 increase seems no problem for today’s moneybags Government, they’ll readjust their balance books and take more off the poor to compensate.

After all, the poor fellow only made £17.8m from his Duchy of Cornwall estate last year and also took a pounding when he had to dip into his wallet for William and Kate’s nuptials.

Thanks to this generous Government, Charles’s income from the taxpayer has risen considerably.

Charles’s lavish spending is spiralling out of control in a year that has seen a 50 per cent rise in those having to seek aid from charity food banks.

Let them eat cake? At this rate, they’ll be lucky to get crumbs.

Stephen Dixon, Redcar.