{"id":346260,"date":"2026-06-05T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=346260"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:25:56","slug":"former-prince-andrew-made-money-on-cottage-sublets-at-his-rent-free-estate-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/former-prince-andrew-made-money-on-cottage-sublets-at-his-rent-free-estate-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Former prince Andrew made money on cottage sublets at his rent-free estate &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly often called Prince Andrew, made money subletting cottages at his royal residence, where he lived rent-free for twenty years, in line with a report on the Royal Family\u2019s properties released by the U.K. public spending watchdog on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Audit Office report said the previous prince had received income from renting out three cottages on the Royal Lodge estate, \u201cwith income generated payable to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,\u201d his home near Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese properties have been vacant since April 2026,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>It also said his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, reside in rent-controlled homes, owned by the Crown, and paid for by their uncle, King Charles III.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"tp_video_miniplayer\">\n<section id=\"miniplayer_6a22f6a0c75cd-carousel\" class=\"l-videoCarousel l-videoCarousel--embed c-carousel\" data-video-carousel-play-inline=\"true\" data-video-carousel-init=\"false\" aria-label=\"Video carousel contains 6 videos.\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-videoCarousel__featured\">\n<div class=\"c-video c-videoPlay \" data-iframe-receiver=\"\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-displayinline-featured=\"true\" data-displayinline-type=\"video\" 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In each instances, rents are paid out of the Privy Purse, the King\u2019s private funds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox because it happens so you will not miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The princesses will not be considered \u201cworking\u201d royals with public duties, and each work other jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenie is a director on the London branch of the international art gallery Hauser &#038; Wirth. Beatrice is the vice-president of partnerships and strategy<!--TgQPHd|[]--> on the U.S. software and data analytics firm Afiniti<!--TgQPHd|[]-->.<\/p>\n<p>A lease for Royal Lodge, signed in 2003, shows Mountbatten-Windsor paid only a nominal fee, often called a \u201cpeppercorn rent,\u201d for the property, which included a 30-room mansion and eight cottages, three of which he was allowed to sublet.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that 11 royals are granted free housing on palace properties in exchange for his or her public duties, including King Charles and Queen Camilla, Prince William and his wife Catherine, in addition to the king\u2019s youngest brother, Prince Edward, and his wife Sophie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>William and Catherine even have a family home near Windsor, for which they pay 307,200 kilos (about CAD $571,000) a yr, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tA police officer walks past the gate of the Royal Lodge in Windsor on Feb. 19, 2026, after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor by British police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAP Photo\/Alberto Pezzali\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The quantity the previous prince produced from the rental properties was not disclosed within the report, an omission noted by Margaret Hodge, a Labour member of the House of Lords, as a cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shocking that the National Audit Office was unable to ascertain how much money Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor secured from the properties he let,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The audit was conducted on the request of lawmakers after Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles and compelled to vacate his home amid revelations about his alleged ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Mountbatten-Windsor moved earlier this yr to the Sandringham estate, a royal residence in eastern England.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested and questioned by police in February over allegations of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>While Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection along with his ties with Epstein and has not been charged, concerns about his links to the disgraced financier have dogged the Royal Family for greater than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace said the audit office report \u201cis in step with the royal household\u2019s commitment to transparency. We hope that the findings will help correct, make clear or contextualize a lot of points regarding royal properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 with files from The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly often called Prince Andrew, made money subletting cottages at his royal residence, where he lived rent-free for twenty years, in line with a report on the Royal Family\u2019s properties released by the U.K. public spending watchdog on Friday. 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