Will Prince Andrew Keep His Royal Mansion?

安德鲁王子将保留他的皇家宅邸吗?

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2025-10-22

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Today, details have emerged about how Prince Andrew can afford his Windsor mansion as pressure builds over whether he should be allowed to keep it. The new document reveals that instead of paying annual rent, Prince Andrew made large lump sum payments up-front, including for renovations. Adam is joined by politics and investigations correspondent Joe Pike to discuss whether political pressure is building for him to give up the property. And, Boris Johnson has been giving evidence at the Covid Inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on children and young people. He told the inquiry that he ‘probably did go too far' with lockdown rules for children, and that the rules were at times overly complicated. Adam speaks to BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffries and BBC Verify’s Ben Chu. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Get in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Shiler Mahmoudi. The social producer was Grace Braddock. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • Hello.

  • The second half of today's episode is going to feel a bit like a throwback to coronavirus newscast where our daily podcasting experiment first began,

  • because I've just spent quite a few hours watching the live stream of the COVID inquiry where the witness was Boris Johnson,

  • Prime Minister at that time.

  • And the focus was on how they handled the pandemic.

  • with schools and young people.

  • So lots of questions were asked.

  • And the first half of this episode will be the latest on the political criticisms of Prince Andrew following the publication posthumously of Virginia Geffrey's autobiography.

  • So that is a little summary of what you'll hear on this episode of Newscast.

  • Hello,

  • it's Adam in the Newscast studio and shortly I'll be joined by my colleagues who've spent hours watching Boris Johnson,

  • the former Prime Minister,

  • at the Covid Inquiry where he was asked questions about his decision making about children and young people and schools during the pandemic.

  • But first of all,

  • the questions have continued for Prince Andrew today

  • as we're recording this episode of Newscast on Tuesday evening and a lot of them are around his living arrangements and where he lives.

  • The Royal Lodge, the 30 bedroom mansion in Windsor.

  • Great Park because some details have emerged of the lease that he has for that property.

  • Also continuing the political criticism,

  • which is taking lots of different forms and coming from new places all the time.