How comes over 50% of the land in England is owned by less than 1% of the population?

Question

And what’s the history behind it?

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Answer 1

The Robber Barons

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(feudalism)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(feudalism))

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there is a bit about England in there

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Basically – I have power in military. You have less power in military but you have many gold. I take your many gold and your lands now. I give some land to friend who helped

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Now I have more wealth and land. I take more power

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Power wins

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It took a culmination of all of this land grab stuff to create a country, a kingdom and then an empire. The TLDR is it was all stolen. And now we love the monarchy…. fail