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Prince Andrew’s tenancy agreement for the Royal Lodge at Windsor has been shared by the Crown Estate after calls for transparency over the royal residence.
the focus is looked back Andrew’s 30-bedroom Royal Lodge on a 75-year lease windsor after another scam weekWhich has seen the royal announcement that he will no longer be known as the Duke of York.
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Prince Andrew, who has always vehemently denied the allegations involving Ms Giuffre, lives at Royal Lodge, the one who sits It occupies a 98-acre estate in Windsor Great Park and is leased from the Crown Estate.
there on monday there were demands There were calls among some MPs in Parliament for him to be stripped of his title, while pressure for him to disclose more about tenancy agreements at the estate also grew amid growing calls for him to step down.
Norman BakerA royal author and former Liberal Democrat minister said details of the contracts should be made public to see if there is any possibility they could be carried out.
he told many times: “All leases contain some form of break clause, so the public should know how he has been able to live there, and on what terms he may be forced to leave.”
Speaking to the same outlet, royal author Andrew Looney said: “I think it’s important for the sake of transparency that the full details of that arrangement be made public and why the property – indeed public property – was offered only to her.”
In response to an inquiry on this issue, The Crown Estate sent Independent A copy of the lease granted in 2003, on which Andrew paid £1m, and was required to undertake a £7.5m-worth of renovation.
The Grade II-listed property is put to peppery rental, the estate said.
The contract states that if no rent is paid for 21 days, or there is any breach of the tenant contract, the contract can be forfeited by the property.
The document also states that the tenant must keep and preserve the grounds in good and proper order, and the building must be repainted every five years. The Crown Estate also has the right to inspect “upon reasonable notice”.
Some details about the agreement were already known through the National Audit Office (NAO). report in 2005, which stated that the decision on the lease was “justified in view of the extreme need to maintain close management control over the Royal Lodge”.
The report said Andrew approached the Crown Estate for the property following the death of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth.
Over the weekend, former royal correspondent Jenny Bond told the BBC that Prince Andrew had a “cast iron” deal to stay at the Royal Lodge.
She said: “Should he be evicted from Royal Lodge, where he lives, to this big house in Windsor, he has a beautiful cast-iron tenancy agreement and it is difficult, the King is trying to get him out.
“Andrew we all like to believe that he has a tendency to be too honorable. Well, I think the honorable thing might be that I would not only give up my titles… but I would also give up this big house. But I don’t see that happening.”
The Crown Estate said it decided to share a copy of the lease on Monday, adding that the document included information already available through the Land Registry and NAO reports.
The only exception was the “program of obsolescence”, she said, which was now being tried to confirm whether it could be shared without violating security considerations.
It states that the £7.5 million renovation work stipulated in the contract was completed in 2005.