Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxLONDON - A British parliamentary committee questioned on Wednesday whether Prince Andrew should still be living in a mansion on the Windsor Estate, west of London, in a rare political intervention sparked by the royal's ties to U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Public Accounts Committee of legislators raised concerns with the Crown Estate - which manages the monarch's public property - and the government's finance ministry in a letter published on Wednesday. The cross-party parliamentary committee, which scrutinises financial accounts as well as the value for money of public spending, said it expects a response "at the earliest possible date" and set a November 28 deadline. "There is considerable and understandable public interest in the spending of public money in relation to Prince Andrew." Andrew, who remains a prince and whose position in the line of succession is unaltered, has a lease to live at Royal Lodge until 2078.

Source: The Times October 30, 2025 04:33 UTC