{"id":2446003,"date":"2026-06-05T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2446003"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:09:32","slug":"disgraced-royal-andrew-sublet-houses-while-paying-peppercorn-rent-uk-auditors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/disgraced-royal-andrew-sublet-houses-while-paying-peppercorn-rent-uk-auditors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced royal Andrew sublet houses while paying \u2018peppercorn rent\u2019: UK auditors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Former prince Andrew paid symbolic \u201cpeppercorn rent\u201d for a 30-room Windsor mansion.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul id=\"U25312745523xoM\">\n<li>Former prince Andrew paid symbolic \u201cpeppercorn rent\u201d for a 30-room Windsor mansion while earning undisclosed private income from subletting three cottages on the estate grounds.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew\u2019s daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, occupy apartments at royal palaces with rent paid from King Charles\u2019 private income, despite neither serving as working royals.<\/li>\n<li>The revelations come as parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee prepares to launch an inquiry into royal property arrangements and King Charles overhauls royal finances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"xsm-section-break\"\/>\n<p>The disgraced former prince Andrew earned a private income from subletting cottages while paying a symbolic \u201cpeppercorn rent\u201d for a mansion for over two decades, the UK government auditor revealed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III\u2019s disgraced brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, until recently lived in the Royal Lodge on the royal family\u2019s Windsor estate near London.<\/p>\n<p>While living virtually rent-free in a 30-room house, Andrew pocketed proceeds from subletting three cottages on its large grounds, a report on royal property income by the National Audit Office revealed, amid debate over the family\u2019s opaque property arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The National Audit Office said \u201cthree cottages on the Royal Lodge estate were&#8230; sublet\u201d, with \u201cincome generated from subletting payable to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know what rent was charged,\u201d the National Audit Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The cottages have been vacant since April, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u2019s daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, have apartments at royal palaces with rent paid from the privy purse \u2013 King Charles\u2019 private income \u2013 despite not being working royals, the report also revealed.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee is set to launch an inquiry this year into royal properties.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, the second son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was briefly arrested in February amid new revelations stemming from his ties to the late billionaire US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>READ |<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/world\/uk-finds-no-evidence-for-epstein-linked-ex-prince-andrews-trade-role-due-diligence-20260521-0665\" target=\"_blank\"> No due diligence: UK govt releases documents on ex-prince Andrew\u2019s 2001 appointment as envoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police searched the Royal Lodge in February as part of the probe into his suspected misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew has since moved to the king\u2019s private Sandringham estate in eastern England.<\/p>\n<p>He paid a \u00a31 million \u201cpremium\u201d to lease the Royal Lodge, agreeing to spend \u00a37.5 million on improvements to secure a 75-year lease on a peppercorn rent.<\/p>\n<p>The lease allowed Andrew to claim compensation for ending it early.<\/p>\n<p>By moving out this year, he could claim over \u00a3300 000, but is expected to receive nothing because of the needed repairs, according to the Crown Estate.<\/p>\n<p>This self-funding public corporation that manages royal properties is supposed to follow the finance ministry\u2019s guidelines on the effective use of public funds.<\/p>\n<p>Charles has been undertaking an overhaul of the royal family\u2019s finances since his mother\u2019s death in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His heir, Prince William, the Prince of Wales, pays over \u00a3300 000 annual rent for a house in Windsor, Forest Lodge, the Audit Office said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.news24.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Former prince Andrew paid symbolic \u201cpeppercorn rent\u201d for a 30-room Windsor mansion.&#13; Former prince Andrew paid symbolic \u201cpeppercorn rent\u201d for a 30-room Windsor mansion while earning undisclosed private income from subletting three cottages on the estate grounds. 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