Xbox-one. V1.8.1. Must purchase Xbox gold subscription to access Minecraft realm.

I recently had to subscribe to Xbox gold in order to play on my Minecraft realm. When I started playing Minecraft a year ago all I needed was the Minecraft realm subscription.

 

 If I cancel my Xbox gold subscription I get an error ‘your Xbox privacy settings do not allow realm access’ and my realm is not shown

As soon as I enable the Xbox gold subscription my realm appears