{"id":2105444,"date":"2025-10-21T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2105444"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:08:29","slug":"fury-as-taxpayers-foot-bill-for-andrews-life-of-luxury-prince-is-an-embarrassment-to-his-family-and-should-be-kicked-out-of-royal-lodge-after-not-paying-rent-for-22-years-robert-jenrick-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/fury-as-taxpayers-foot-bill-for-andrews-life-of-luxury-prince-is-an-embarrassment-to-his-family-and-should-be-kicked-out-of-royal-lodge-after-not-paying-rent-for-22-years-robert-jenrick-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury as taxpayers foot bill for Andrew&#8217;s life of luxury: Prince is an &#8217;embarrassment&#8217; to his family and should be kicked out of Royal Lodge after not paying rent for 22 YEARS, Robert Jenrick says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prince Andrew should be <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7719953\/New-poll-reveals-half-British-public-want-Prince-Andrew-BANNED-royal-events.html\" class=\"\">kicked out of his Windsor Royal Lodge and disappear because the British public are \u2018sick\u2019 of him and he is an embarrassment to his family and the UK<\/a>,\u00a0according to <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/robert-jenrick\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0cbd4dd0-ae68-11f0-8525-dd76626d52ba\">Robert Jenrick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The shadow justice secretary\u00a0has said it is disgusting that taxpayers are subsiding him to live in a 30-room mansion with his ex-wife <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/sarah-ferguson-duchess-of-york\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b17ff300-ae4e-11f0-b237-43131d88221b\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a>\u00a0when he should be paying \u00a3200,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I don\u2019t see why the taxpayer frankly should continue to foot the bill. The public are sick of Prince Andrew&#8217;, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It came after yet another shocking twist in the royal-Epstein scandal when it emerged last night he\u00a0hasn&#8217;t paid rent on his palatial property for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And Andrew could become the first royal to be caught up in a criminal probe in more than 20 years. Scotland Yard has confirmed it is &#8216;actively&#8217; probing claims he asked an officer to dig up dirt on <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/virginia-roberts-giuffre\/index.html\" id=\"mol-71003de0-adc1-11f0-92de-01b1ba812e2a\" class=\"\">Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, whose posthumous autobiography is out today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Jenrick said:\u00a0\u2018I don\u2019t think the taxpayer should in any way be footing the bill for him to live in luxury homes ever again. He shouldn\u2019t have any taxpayer subsidies going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It\u2019s about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private and make his own way in life. He has disgraced himself, he has embarrassed the <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b18ee720-ae4e-11f0-b237-43131d88221b\" class=\"\">Royal Family<\/a> time and again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The King deserves great respect and admiration for the way he has handled this. He is trying to do his absolute best to ensure Prince Andrew goes off, <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9491565\/Prince-Andrew-hopes-rehabilitation-makes-public-appearance.html\">leads a quiet life and doesn\u2019t embarrass himself, the royal family or our country ever again<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (pictured in 2019) are holed up in their grace-and-favour Royal Lodge amid increased scrutiny over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. A leaked lease suggests they may not have paid rent on their home for 22 years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d943403a7a13e546\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/20\/23\/103158435-15210951-image-m-7_1761000461904.jpg\" height=\"447\" width=\"634\" alt=\"\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Calls are growing for Prince Andrew to be kicked out of the Royal Lodge (pictured), the lavish Windsor mansion he shares with his ex-wife<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An unredacted copy of his lease emerged last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It shows that while he paid \u00a31million to lease the property in 2003 and spent \u00a37.5million on refurbishments, he has paid only &#8216;one peppercorn (if demanded)&#8217; of rent a year since taking on the mansion 22 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is because Andrew is deemed to have paid the rent \u2013 which was in the region of \u00a3260,000 a year \u2013 up front through the work he has funded to bring the palatial property up to scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It also means the Crown Estate will have to pay him around half a million pounds if he were to quit his mansion before the lease on it runs out in 2078.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A copy of the agreement was obtained by The Times newspaper following pressure from MPs and campaigners. And it will no doubt add to public outrage over Andrew&#8217;s perceived &#8216;perks&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sources have stressed to the Daily Mail, however, that questions still remain over how the King&#8217;s brother can afford the vast 30-bedroom property, which comes with multi-million running costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Andrew is not believed to have <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-7591869\/Former-MP-NORMAN-BAKER-asks-Duke-York-buy-13million-ski-chalet.html\">received any significant inheritance from the Queen or Queen Mother<\/a>, raising fresh questions about how he can afford to stay in the property \u2013 particularly when he now receives no personal allowance from the King, or public funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Charles, 76, has desperately tried to persuade his younger brother to downsize and move out of the grade II-listed mansion in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He believes many of Andrew&#8217;s problems \u2013 particularly those that saw him drawn to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and other shady characters \u2013 stem from chasing a lifestyle he simply cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Andrew, 65, has stubbornly insisted that he has a cast-iron lease on the house. And as long as he pays the rent, the King has no legal right to throw him out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The revelation comes as:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">A devastating memoir by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is published today, in which she doubles down on allegations she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions \u2013 a claim the prince strongly denies;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">A growing chorus of MPs demanded legislation to legally strip Andrew of his royal titles, including that of the Duke of York, through an Act of Parliament after he only voluntarily gave them up last Friday;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Scotland Yard admitted an internal probe into allegations that the prince obtained Ms Giuffre&#8217;s social security number and demanded that a police protection officer try to &#8216;dig up dirt&#8217; on her could take weeks \u2013 if the records even still exist;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Buckingham Palace removed Andrew&#8217;s former title, Duke of York, from its website, although his official biography remains;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Andrew&#8217;s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson changed her social media profiles from &#8216;Sarah the Duchess&#8217; to &#8216;sarahMFergie15&#8217;;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><span class=\"mol-style-bold\">Princess Beatrice visited her father at Royal Lodge in a public show of support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Beatrice and her sister Eugenie are <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15208535\/Princesses-Beatrice-Eugenie-pull-high-society-ball-dubbed-Londons-Met-Gala.html\" class=\"\">said to have pulled out of a charity ball in London on Saturday amid the torrent of unedifying claims around their father.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While details of the Queen&#8217;s will have never been made public, it is thought that Andrew was not left sufficient funds to sustain his apparently lavish lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Royal Lodge, in the heart of Windsor Great Park, was the home of the Queen Mother, and was <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/article-13501229\/Prince-Andrew-Royal-Lodge-Queen-Mother.html\">leased to Andrew after her death<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Crown Estate approved the arrangement, saying its location and &#8216;security concerns&#8217; made it difficult to rent out on the open market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8cc3b36be139f0f5\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/21\/07\/103142231-15210951-Princess_Beatrice_drives_from_Royal_Lodge_home_of_her_father_Pri-a-34_1761026684221.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Princess Beatrice drives from Royal Lodge, home of her father Prince Andrew and mother Sarah Ferguson, at Windsor in Berkshire on Monday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Princess Beatrice drives from Royal Lodge, home of her father Prince Andrew and mother Sarah Ferguson, at Windsor in Berkshire on Monday\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Andrew had to carry out \u00a37.5million of refurbishment work when he took the property on in 2003. He was given a 75-year lease in return for a one-off payment of \u00a31million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">His rent was believed to be upwards of \u00a3260,000 a year, with a legal requirement to keep the property in a good state of repair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, sources at Windsor say the house is a virtual &#8216;money pit&#8217; and there have long been claims Andrew has been struggling with its upkeep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Until now it had been widely assumed that without any public funding or private allowance from his brother, the prince had been dipping into personal investments and family bequests to bankroll the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The revelation over his inheritance will inevitably raise questions about how he can afford to live there. Andrew also has to <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10400343\/Prince-Andrew-fund-security-stripped-title.html\">fund his own security after losing his official police bodyguard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The King had previously said that if his brother downsized and moved to a smaller property on the estate \u2013 potentially Frogmore Cottage, recently vacated by Harry \u2013 he would reinstate his personal allowance and help fund his security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But after Andrew point-blank refused, it is not known whether the offer is still even on the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The headlines have been an unfortunate distraction for the King, who yesterday made a moving visit to Manchester to visit the Heaton Park synagogue that was targeted in a terror attack earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Andrew should be kicked out of his Windsor Royal Lodge and disappear because the British public are \u2018sick\u2019 of him and he is an embarrassment to his family and the UK,\u00a0according to Robert Jenrick. 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