Last week, a parliamentary committee announced that they would examine the Crown Estate, and the self-dealing leases the Windsors give themselves. While Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was dramatically “unroyaled” to stop the government from looking too closely at royal finances, it didn’t work when it came to royal real estate. Andrew’s Royal Lodge peppercorn rent has now opened up Pandora’s Box, as everyone is now learning how little the royals pay for ALL of their leases. This Telegraph story broke down some of the other royal lease issues which will become a much bigger deal next year:

Ingrid Seward on the lack of reporting around royal real estate: “The Crown Estate contains a huge number of properties but most of us haven’t been aware of what exactly is out there, and until now, few o

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