They didn't hide it, but they didn't, like, you know, broadcast it from the mountaintops. And they did it because royal people tend to live a long time.īELLONI: They are very well taken care of.īELLONI: The queen that just passed away lived to almost 100.īELLONI: So basically, this happened in an open hearing. That seemed like a long time (laughter).īELLONI: It is a long time. RASCOE: So they said that basically King Charles III of the United Kingdom, that this would be in place until, like, 21 years after his last living descendant. So in a lot of, like, 18th- and 19th-century century property documents, you would see this language referring to, this property is in the hands and will be governed based on the descendants of the king and their descendants and no longer. So this is an interesting wrinkle here because what Disney did is they included language in the agreement - there's a rule in the law called the rule against perpetuities, where you're not allowed to keep something in the same hands forever.

RASCOE: And I was like, what is going on?īELLONI: OK. Or they were talking about perpetuity on Twitter.

RASCOE: All of this hinges on something I had never heard before, but it's something called the royal lives clause. And it's something that I know Disney is very confident legally that it has done the right thing here. And that was a very deliberate move by Disney in advance of this turnover. They basically can't do anything except maintain the roads and the foliage around the roads. They changed a bunch of the bylaws and essentially handcuffed this new board where it is not going to be able to do most of the things that they thought they were going to be able to do. RASCOE: So this new board Governor DeSantis had put in place has gotten some big surprise in the past few days, right? Like what happened with this?īELLONI: So at the last meeting before this new board took over, the Disney-backed board did something interesting. He covers Hollywood for Puck News, and he's also a lawyer, which is going to come in handy with this 'cause it's a little complicated. To give us the scoop, Matt Belloni joins us. At least that's what the governor thought he'd done. DeSantis then signed a bill that basically allowed him to put allies on a board that controls a special tax zone that includes Walt Disney World. The dispute started back when Disney objected to what critics call Florida's Don't Say Gay law. OK, so it looks like Mickey Mouse just pulled one over on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, at least for the moment.

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