This is one of the worst cases in the country, where a whole family who have received state benefits all their lives will be forced to move and struggle to survive.

The family have a number of residences in the UK, all funded by benefits. The bedroom tax will hit them hard. They will have to give up many of their abodes and find alternative accommodation in cheaper areas.

Not only will they be moving but they are having to reduce their living standard substantially. Some of their children have never worked, what the government would call, 'shirkers'. They have been given huge handouts from the state, all of these will dry up today.

A spokesman for the Windsor family said, "Mrs Windsor is an elderly lady who has been given vast state resources to live as she desires. Her family have received state benefits to live in luxury, never having to think about work. It is an outrage that the government have termed them ' shirkers" and deprived them of their lifestyle".

Mrs Windsor was unavailbale for comment.