{"id":2437209,"date":"2026-05-29T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2437209"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:22:53","slug":"prince-and-princess-of-wales-paid-40k-stamp-duty-on-forever-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-and-princess-of-wales-paid-40k-stamp-duty-on-forever-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince and Princess of Wales paid \u00a340k stamp duty on \u2018forever home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The agreed rent for Forest Lodge was 50pc higher than the rent paid by the last tenants, Alexander Fitzgibbons, the chairman of the party-planning business Fait Accompli, who signed a joint rental agreement with Cristina Stenbeck, a Swedish businesswoman.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales is understood to pay the rent out of private income he receives after tax from the Duchy of Cornwall estate.<\/p>\n

The Prince and Princess also live at Kensington Palace, their official London residence, and Anmer Hall, a mansion on the Sandringham Estate that they received as a wedding gift from Elizabeth II. Because Amner Hall was a gift \u2013 and therefore the couple did not pay for it \u2013 they are unlikely to have paid stamp duty on the unmortgaged home.<\/p>\n

It comes ahead of hearings of the public accounts committee on its inquiry into the Crown Estate<\/a>, which was launched in December. The Crown Estate, which administers a \u00a315bn portfolio, is an independent commercial body, the profits of which are fed back into the Treasury.<\/p>\n

It is expected that evidence of the finances of the Royal Household will be shared for the first time.<\/p>\n

The inquiry was launched after it was revealed that the former Prince Andrew, who was stripped of his titles by the King last year, had paid a minimal \u201cpeppercorn\u201d rent on his previous Windsor home for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Mr Mountbatten-Windsor had spent \u00a38m on renovations on the Royal Lodge. He moved to Marsh Farm<\/a> on the Sandringham Estate earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Representatives of the Prince and Princess were contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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

The agreed rent for Forest Lodge was 50pc higher than the rent paid by the last tenants, Alexander Fitzgibbons, the chairman of the party-planning business Fait Accompli, who signed a joint rental agreement with Cristina Stenbeck, a Swedish businesswoman. The Prince of Wales is understood to pay the rent out of private income he receives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437210,"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":[403835,21738,23068,23395,22769,344742,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2437209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-news","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Prince-and-Princess-of-Wales-paid-40k-stamp-duty-on.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437209","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=2437209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437211,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437209\/revisions\/2437211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}