{"id":492320,"date":"2026-06-14T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/492320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:44:08","slug":"royal-family-rent-payments-prince-william-kate-middleton-prince-andrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/492320\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family Rent Payments: Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Andrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

The report showed that 11 working royals were able to live the palace life rent-free and some, like the 66-year-old\u2014who’s now bunking at the King’s Sandringham Estate<\/a>\u2014were able to turn a profit, the former prince allowed to rent out three properties on the 98-acre Berkshire, England estate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just how much he pocketed, however, is a royal mystery with Margaret Hodge, a Labour member of the House of Lords and former head of Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee, lamenting<\/a> that “It’s shocking that the National Audit Office was not able to establish how much money Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor secured from the properties he let.”<\/p>\n

And she’s not the only person refusing to keep calm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It shows an absolute contempt for the taxpayer, not only that Andrew was able to have a peppercorn rent for a gigantic property,” detailed former Liberal Democrat lawmaker Norman Baker, “but then to make potentially millions on the side from subletting properties.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Buckingham Palace hasn’t publicly commented on the report, a spokesperson for the Crown Estate said in a statement<\/a> that it “welcomes” the review “which confirms its leases with members of the royal family were agreed in line with independent, professional advice and open market valuations.”<\/p>\n

We’re unlocking the truth about just who’s shelling out for the royal family’s palatial properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report showed that 11 working royals were able to live the palace life rent-free and some, like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-492320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}