But it seems that he carried on renting East Lodge. The Crown Estate has suggested that the request to end his tenancy came this year following a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BBC in January about the property.<\/p>\n
“Since then\u2026 we have received a request for us to consider an early termination of the lease,” the Crown Estate said.<\/p>\n
The latest term of the lease was believed to have been due to end in July 2027.<\/p>\n
Mountbatten-Windsor’s lease will now be terminated early, but the timetable will depend on arrangements for those living in the house when the former prince ceases to be involved.<\/p>\n
With pressure increasing from the release of the Epstein files, Andrew moved from Royal Lodge to Sandringham in Norfolk in February, where he will live in a property owned by King Charles III and without any cost to the public purse.<\/p>\n
The Crown Estate is an independent commercial body, whose profits go to the Treasury and which has an obligation to get best value for the public.<\/p>\n
The Crown Estate says the day to day occupancy of the property is a private matter, separate to the tenancy – and previous documents have suggested that the lodge has been used by employees of the former Duke of York.<\/p>\n
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But it seems that he carried on renting East Lodge. The Crown Estate has suggested that the request…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}