Prince Andrew could be in line for a £7 million taxpayer-funded compensation payout if he is forced to leave his grace-and-favour home in Windsor.
The 2005 National Audit Office report says the Queen’s second son is entitled to be reimbursed for a £7.5 million refurbishment he funded after moving in two years earlier, in 2003.
The NAO report states that Andrew cannot ‘gain financially from any increase in the value’ of the Royal Lodge and the cash would go back into the Crown Estate.It says: ‘The maximum compensation of just under £7 million is subject to annual reductions over the first 25 years of the lease, so that at the end of that period, there is nil compensation payable.
The royal family publicly severed its ties with the duke when the Queen stripped him of his remaining patronages and military affiliations in January. Mr Stephens, an international reputation lawyer from the law firm Howard Kennedy, said: ‘The settlement has drawn a line under further humiliation of him but there’s no way back for him now.‘I think a bellweather of that is it’s very unlikely he will attend his father’s memorial.
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