Man who claims he is King Charles’ son fights claims he failed to keep his home clean
A Brisbane man who believes he is the love child of King Charles and Camilla has taken his former rental agent to court after they claimed he failed to keep his carpets and walls clean.
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A Brisbane man who believes he is the love child of King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla has taken his former property agent to court after they claimed he failed to keep his rental’s carpets and walls clean.
Simon Charles Dorante-Day and his wife Elvianna filed a residential tenancy dispute application in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal in June.
The couple are seeking orders from the tribunal after a dispute erupted with the real estate agency representing the landlord of their $475 a week Narangba rental home, tribunal documents state.
They are taking action against the Deception Bay arm of Southport-based Grow and Co Property Agents Pty Ltd (Grow and Co) alleging they breached the rules of entry to their home to inspect the property, and breached the terms of their lease.
Tribunal documents show that Grow and Co slapped the couple with a notice to remedy breach on May 25 stating “the tenant must keep the premises clean”, following an inspection on April 20 and an email from the assistant property manager two days later stating the home would need to be “reinspected” due to bedroom carpet needing vacuuming, dirty walls, dirty mirrored wardrobe doors and paint on the window blinds.
The couple told the agent via email on the same day that the carpets had been steam cleaned only a fortnight earlier and the walls were not dirty.
“We are very offended and annoyed, especially because I asked (the agent) if everything was OK before she left (the inspection) and nothing was identified nor said,” the couple wrote in an email on April 23.
The couple quoted the Retail Tenancies Authority stating “a routine inspection is not a housework inspection, the person inspecting the property should appreciate that people are living there”.
Three days later Mr Dorante-Day asked agent Kate Jensen via email: “We already wiped all the walls, we are NOT wiping them all again, so where specifically?”
Mr and Dr Dorante-Day have asked the tribunal to strike the “alleged breach” from their rental record, and to force the landlord to “renew” their lease until July 2023.
They claim Grow and Co “has harassed and bullied” them using tenancy laws and has falsely accused them of “malicious damage to the property”.
Dr Dorante-Day also copied Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman into an email to Grow and Co on May 28.
“I have included you Hon. Shannon Fentiman in this email because in 2018 some of the members of your office were present in a case my husband Simon Dorante-Day lodged in the Family Court … a paternity case against Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla as he/we believe they are his parents,” Dr Dorante-Day wrote on May 28.
“We view what the real estate is doing as interference with our human rights on many levels … we are also lodging a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission”
“As an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman, I find these statements from the real estate defamatory, racist and malicious” Dr Dorante-Day wrote, referring to the claim that they did not keep their home clean.
Grow and Co manager Ben Jorgensen told Dr Dorante-Day that none of his staff “have forcibly entered your home. I can assure you that your new property manager … would never act with any malicious or unlawful intent regardless of ethnicity, racial background or alike”.
Mr Dorante-Day told New Idea his grandmother worked for Queen Elizabeth and she told him on her deathbed that he was the child of Charles and Camilla and had been adopted at the age of 18 months.
On October 6, a QCAT registrar ordered the case to be listed for hearing after November 10.
A letter from the tribunal posted to the couple at the Narangba address was returned to sender, the court file states, indicating they are no longer tenants.