Charles shuts down free rides for the royal family

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00:00Charles shuts down free rides for the royal family.

00:03King Charles III is reportedly done with non-working members of the royal family being bankrolled by the firm.

00:10According to Robert Jobson's book The Windsor Legacy,

00:13King Charles III wants his relatives to stop relying on the firm to fund their lavish lifestyles

00:18and rather stand on their own two feet financially.

00:21The biggest issue for King Charles III is that non-working members of the family

00:25have been using royal residences as subsidized accommodation for themselves.

00:30According to Robert Jobson,

00:32His Majesty thinks the palace is being run like a hotel and not a very good one.

00:36A source alleged to the royal expert,

00:38over time, that is all going to change.

00:41Properties will be let at commercial rates going forward and to people outside the family.

00:46Where it is in a palace environment, they will, of course, be security vetted.

00:51Sniped a second source,

00:52the king isn't running a housing association for distant relatives.

00:55While it's not clear which lower-ranking members of the family will be cut off from the free ride,

01:00Princess Beatrice reportedly has a state-funded apartment in St. James's Palace in London.

01:06However, she spends most of her time with her husband,

01:08Eduardo Mapelli Morsi,

01:10and their children at their farmhouse in the Cotswolds.

01:13Princess Eugenie spends much of her time in Portugal with her husband, Jack Brooksbank.

01:18However, they do reside at Ivy Cottage,

01:21a grace-and-favor house within the grounds of Kensington Palace,

01:23when they are in the UK.

01:26After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was stripped of his royal titles over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein,

01:31the former Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson,

01:34were evicted from Royal Lodge, where they've lived for decades.