"Pegging royal funding to Crown Estate revenue makes no sense at all, " it has argued.

BBC: Royal funding changes become law

It said the interests of the crown dependencies needed to be considered routinely in all areas of UK policy-making and legislation likely to affect them and that departments needed to be made aware of the constitutional position of the islands, their essential independence from the UK and their independence from each other.

BBC: Status of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man defended