The Charity Commission has opened a case into Princess Eugenie’s anti-slavery charity.
The watchdog said on Wednesday that it had opened a formal compliance case into the Anti-Slavery Collective, which Princess Eugenie, 36, founded with one of her closest friends in 2017.
The charity has come under growing scrutiny after the Princess’s father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was stripped of his titles following revelations of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Earlier this year, the commission said it was “assessing concerns”.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Charity Commission said: “We have opened a regulatory compliance case into Anti-Slavery Collective to continue assessing concerns raised with us about charitable spending. As part of this, we will be engaging further with the charity’s trustees.”
Last year, the BBC reported that the charity had raised £1.5m in donations but had only spent around £200,000.
Much of the money raised came from a gala fundraiser held in London in 2023.
A source told the BBC it was “difficult optically to do anything high profile like that again”.
The Telegraph understands that the watchdog has not opened a statutory inquiry. The body has not yet produced any findings or drawn any conclusions.
In 2019, the charity was forced to scale back its activities after Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, then the Duke of York, became embroiled in the Epstein scandal.
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