The disgraced ex-Prince Andrew, while living practically for free, made money by renting out cottages on his Windsor estate, according to findings by Great Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO).
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles in October due to his relationship with the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
He was also booted from his 30-room Windsor mansion as that scandal unraveled. A report published Friday claims that’s where he rented three cottages, which have been vacant since April. It’s not clear if he drew revenue from his trio of sublets after being stripped of his titles.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s property agreement allowed him to charge occupants for use of the cottages adjacent to his Royal Lodge home, according to documents viewed by Newsweek.
The former royal committed to sinking roughly $10 million into repairing and maintaining the Windsor property when he assumed residency there in 2003, according to the BBC. He also put down $1.3 million to move in. In exchange, he paid nearly no rent.
How he financed the initial upgrades isn’t noted in the NAO report.
The 66-year-old aristocrat now lives in a five-bedroom farmhouse on the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England.
He was menaced in the English countryside last month by a man shouting at him from 50 yards away, according to British outlet The Telegraph. Mountbatten-Windsor and a bodyguard safely stayed clear of the interloper.
The fallen former prince was one of the men Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre said sexually exploited her beginning when she was a teenager. Mountbatten-Windsor, who denies engaging in illegal activity, settled a civil suit with her in 2022. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.
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