MPs urged to push for ‘radical reform’ after NAO finds former prince made income from Royal Lodge properties Campaigners have called for radical reform and a public inquiry into all royal finances after revelations that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received an undisclosed private income from subletting three cottages on his Royal Lodge estate while paying a “peppercorn rent”. A report from the public spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), found the rental income went to the former Duke of York, but said: “We do not know what rent was charged.” It was published on Friday as part of a public accounts committee inquiry set up after a public outcry over revelations that the former prince was paying a peppercorn rent (a small token payment) on the Royal Lodge estate in Windsor before he was evicted to Marsh Farm in Norfolk by the king. The anti-monarchy campaign group Republic and the former Liberal Democrat minister Norman Baker said they would be pressing the public accounts committee for a full investigation. Republic called the subletting a “flagrant abuse of public property” and said that while serious concerns remained about the former duke’s use of publicly owned prope
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MPs urged to push for ‘radical reform’ after NAO finds former prince made income from Royal Lodge properties Campaigners have called for radical reform and a public inquiry into all royal finances after revelations that Andrew…
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