Prince Andrew newest: MPs strain Crown Estate over ‘value for money’ of Andrew’s rent-free Royal Lodge life | EUROtoday

An Act of Parliament can be required, and there are two imperfect precedents:

“I look forward to disseminating some of the Crown’s money to do some good,” Virginia Giuffre wrote in her memoir.

Reminder: Four days after his infamous 2019 BBC Newsnight interview aired, Prince Andrew stepped down from public duties. The interview was seen as a catastrophe for him:

The Crown Estate is impartial of the federal government and the King, the Treasury has insisted, after the Public Accounts Committee referred to as on each the property and the Treasury to say whether or not Andrew’s preparations had been worth for cash.

A Treasury spokesperson stated: “The Crown Estate is an organisation independent of both the government and the Monarch.

“We will reply to Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown sooner or later.”

The Duke of Sussex has railed against social media companies, claiming they “farm our youngsters’s mindset and promote it for themselves”.

Harry stated there have been some “evil depraved folks on the coronary heart of this” in a podcast interview with US comic Hasan Minhaj, and when asked if he would become a US citizen, replied he had no plans at this point.

The duke, who has long campaigned to raise awareness about the harms of social media, told the Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know podcast: “People look to governments to guard them and but we’ve this lawlessness inside this specific trade.

“Where, as far as they’re concerned, accountability slows down innovation, the power and the decision-making rests with the few rather than the many.

“The incentives are all improper, the incentives are to maintain youngsters on-line for so long as potential, to farm and course of your considering, your ideas and actually hold you there for so long as potential to allow them to make as a lot cash as potential.”