Everything in the public sphere was owned, and formally still is owned, by the king of the queen. And in 1516-1635, the service even only served the king, originally Henry VIII, too www.reuters.com/world/uk/roy... You are a commie who dreams about kingdoms' being a commie dystopias
The service became a standard communist dinosaur that was losing money to the king, effectively to the taxpayer, so the people in charge of the budget needed to get rid of the black hole. It was privatized in 2013 and was still losing money, many small shareholders were poor, myopic owners