{"id":2123374,"date":"2025-10-29T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123374"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:30:19","slug":"mps-raise-concerns-over-prince-andrews-royal-lodge-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mps-raise-concerns-over-prince-andrews-royal-lodge-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs raise concerns over Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge lease"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, more details emerged about how he could afford his sprawling mansion, after the lease agreement had been revealed.<\/a><\/p>\n

The arrangement means he has only ever paid a token – or peppercorn – annual rent on Royal Lodge, and even that might not be required under his deal with the Crown Estate, a lease document seen by BBC News confirms.<\/p>\n

In effect, those payments – which totalled more than \u00a38m and were detailed in a National Audit Office report – meant he was buying himself out of future rent obligations for the duration of the lease, based on paying in advance a notional rent of \u00a3260,000 per year.<\/p>\n

Last week, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey called on the PAC to launch an inquiry and ask Prince Andrew to give evidence about his lease of Royal Lodge.<\/a><\/p>\n

While there is nothing preventing a House of Commons committee from inviting Prince Andrew to do this, an appearance in such a setting by a member of the Royal Family would be unprecedented. It is unclear whether the committee would be able to compel him to do so.<\/p>\n

The government has so far refused to give MPs time to debate Prince Andrew’s titles or taxpayer-funded home.<\/p>\n

There have been reports that Prince Andrew is willing to leave Royal Lodge but wants other royal properties for himself and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n

Buckingham Palace has not commented on whether Prince Andrew might move out of his home – or where he might go.<\/p>\n

In a separate development, it emerged this week that Prince Andrew hosted Jeffrey Epstein at Royal Lodge<\/a> as part of his daughter Beatrice’s birthday celebrations in 2006 – two months after a US arrest warrant had been issued for Epstein for the sexual assault of a minor. Andrew did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.bbc.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, more details emerged about how he could afford his sprawling mansion, after the lease agreement had been revealed. The arrangement means he has only ever paid a token – or peppercorn – annual rent on Royal Lodge, and even that might not be required under his deal with the Crown Estate, a lease […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MPs-raise-concerns-over-Prince-Andrews-Royal-Lodge-lease.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123376,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123374\/revisions\/2123376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}