00:00Why is the Public Spending Watchdog's report now attracting so much attention?
00:06Well, this particular report was commissioned after all the revelations
00:12between Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:17And so this report was commissioned into Royal Lodge in Great Windsor Park,
00:22where Andrew lived for many years before he has been effectively exiled to the Sandringham Estate.
00:28And what this report found out, rather, is that while Andrew was living at Royal Lodge,
00:34he was paying a peppercorn rent, essentially paying practically nothing to live there.
00:39But also he was collecting rent from other people who were renting some of the smaller properties on that estate.
00:47So I think there was three of them that were being rented out to staff or former staff.
00:52And Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was making money from that.
00:56What also was in this report is that there are several members of the royal family,
01:01most of them working royals, but some non-working royals as well,
01:04Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie mentioned,
01:07that have properties that are paid for from the privy purse.
01:12Now, the privy purse is basically King Charles's own money.
01:16So he pays for accommodation for working royals, the Prince and Princesses of Wales are some of them,
01:23and for non-working royals, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie,
01:27to have various properties that are royal homes.
01:31Some of them, Kensington Palace and other parts of the UK,
01:35where there are royal properties, they are paid for by the king.
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