Later this year, the Royal Family – and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – will face uncomfortable scrutiny on the rental agreements in place on some of the Crown Estate’s most lavish properties.
Parliament’s Public Accounts committee, a public body, will probe contracts negotiated apparently under the radar on a host of enviable apartments and houses, including at St James’s Palace, Kensington Palace and within Great Windsor Park.
The review is likely to shine a light on some of the rental arrangements of high-profile non-working royals, including Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice and Princess Michael of Kent – and, in some cases, expose ‘zero’ and ‘peppercorn’
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