{"id":2416092,"date":"2026-05-14T06:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2416092"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:21:51","slug":"watchdog-opens-case-into-princess-eugenies-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watchdog-opens-case-into-princess-eugenies-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog opens case into Princess Eugenie\u2019s charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"article-body-text\">\n<p>The Charity Commission has opened a case into <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2026\/05\/04\/princess-eugenie-expecting-third-child-jack-brooksbank\/\">Princess Eugenie<\/a>\u2019s anti-slavery charity.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The charity has come under growing scrutiny after the Princess\u2019s father, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor\/\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, was stripped of his titles following revelations of his relationship with <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/jeffrey-epstein\/\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the commission said it was \u201cassessing concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a spokesman for the Charity Commission said: \u201cWe 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\u2019s trustees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the BBC reported that the charity had raised \u00a31.5m in donations but had only spent around \u00a3200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the money raised came from a gala fundraiser held in London in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A source told the BBC it was \u201cdifficult optically to do anything high profile like that again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph understands that the watchdog has not opened a statutory inquiry. The body has not yet produced any findings or drawn any conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the charity <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2019\/11\/23\/prince-andrews-deepening-crisis-spills-princess-eugenies-anti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was forced to scale back its activities<\/a> after Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, then the Duke of York, became embroiled in the Epstein scandal.<\/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.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charity Commission has opened a case into Princess Eugenie\u2019s 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\u2019s father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2416093,"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":[403835,22942,21738,22770,22769,22946,344742,425843,24515,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2416092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-news","tag-princess-eugenie","tag-royal-family","tag-sarah-ferguson","tag-standard","tag-the-epstein-files","tag-the-royal-family","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Watchdog-opens-case-into-Princess-Eugenies-charity.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416092","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=2416092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416094,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416092\/revisions\/2416094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}