In October, there were weeks of royal scandal due to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) and his multiple fiascoes involving Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Giuffre, Royal Lodge and, as always, money. The situation around Andrew’s lease on Royal Lodge got so heated that the British papers began to investigate other royal leases. In late October, the Times of London looked into the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh’s longterm lease on Bagshot Park, the 30-room mansion with extensive grounds. Edward was “given” Bagshot by QEII, but it remained part of the Crown Estates, and that means Edward and Sophie have some kind of makeshift lease agreement with the Crown Estates (as opposed to owning Bagshot outright). While Edward first leased Bagshot in the 1990s, Edward re

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