A British parliamentary committee yesterday questioned whether Prince Andrew should still be living in a mansion on the Windsor Estate, west of London, in a rare political intervention sparked by the royal’s ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew, 65, the younger brother of King Charles and second son of the late Queen Elizabeth, has come under mounting pressure over his behaviour and ties to Epstein and earlier this month he was forced to stop using his title of Duke of York.
In recent weeks British newspapers have questioned his finances after the Times reported that the prince had not paid rent on his 30-room mansion, called Royal Lodge, for two decades, but had funded at least $10 million of renovations completed in 2005.
The Public Accounts Committee of legislators raised concerns with the Crown Estate – which manages the monarch’s public property – and the government’s finance ministry in a letter published yesterday. The intervention marks a significant turn as convention dictates that lawmakers do not criticise the royal family in parliament.
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