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0:03 Calorougus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue Gay. I'm your host, Mark Francis. Andrew mount Patten Windsor is reportedly facing another family setback with claims he will not be invited to the upcoming wedding of his nephew Peter Phillips. Peter Phillips has set to marry his fiance Harriet Spurling on June sixth at All Saints Church in Gloucestershire. The ceremony is expected to be a private family occasion, although a number of senior royals are reportedly expected to attend, including King Charles, Queen Ca Miller, and the Prince and Princess of Wales. Andrew, however, is said to be absent from the guest list. Some fear Andrew will evade justice.

0:46 Royal author Andrew Lowney was on Tom Sykes Royalist podcast Sikes asked do you think that Andrew will actually evade justice after all of this? Lowney replied, yes, I think he will. I mean we're already being prepared for no charges to be laid. The last thing the royal family wants is all their dirty linen aired in public, So I think it can go different ways. One is to say that he was never a public servant, he was just a royal secondment, so that malefeasance doesn't work. I think we may have difficulties getting women to give evidence for the sex trafficking. I think the lion will be he's not going to get a fair trial because of the publicity. The danger is that he wants to call his brother to give evidence in the court, which he's entitled to do, and of course the king couldn't appear in his own court. The worry of blackmail behind the scenes, saying, look, why am I being fingered when you guys all knew about it and did nothing. So I agree it's been kicked into the long grass, and the hope that there will be a new rain and everyone will have forgotten and they can kind of bury the whole story. I share your cynicism that you know, whatever the king says about the law, following its course, the law will know that this is not somewhere it wants to go. Even Andrew's eventual death stir things up for the royals and inside are told Radar Online. For years there has been enormous curiosity about how Andrew continues to maintain his lifestyle after effectively being removed from public royal life. The assumption inside royal circles is that his will could finally expose

2:16 the true state of his finances, his investments, his property arrangements, and exactly how wealthy he really is. What makes this especially explosive is that Andrew no longer occupies the protected status he once had as a senior working royal. Traditionally, royal wills are still to preserve privacy and protect the dignity of the institution, but there is growing belief that Andrew's estate may not receive the same protection because of his changed status and the damaged caused by the Epstein scandal. A palace aid said, the Epstein scandal fundamentally changed how Andrew is viewed, both publicly and institutionally, and it may now effectively lead to his finances finally being unraveled in public.

2:57 Any future disclosure of his finances would attract extraordinary attention because people believe there are still unanswered questions about privileged money and how he has been protected for so long. Royal finances are facing a rare public funding cut, with the BBC reporting that the Sovereign grant is expected to be reduced for the first time since it was introduced in twenty twelve. The issue comes amid renewed scrutiny of royal money following the scandal surrounding Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in questions over value for money at royal properties. BBC Royal Correspondent Sewan Coughlin wrote that if Queen Elizabeth once described nineteen ninety two as her Annis horror BILLUS, King Charles Rain has now had, what that might be called is Andrew Horror BILLUS. The Sovereign grant currently stands at a record level, boosted temporarily to help pay for repairs at Buckingham Palace, but Treasury ministers have already indicated that the grant is expected to fall once those works are completed.

3:53 Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Livermore, told the House of Lords in March the Government is committed to bringing forward legislation to reset the grant to a lower level from twenty twenty seven to twenty eight once Buckingham Palace reservicing works are completed. The funding review comes as MPs on the Public Accounts Committee prepared to examine the Crown at state and leasing arrangements for properties occupied by members of the Royal family. That inquiry follows public anger over Andrew mount Patten Windsor's former residence at Royal Lodge in Windsor and broader questions about whether the royal property arrangements represent good value for taxpayers. Royal biographer Andrew Lowney said Andrew's downfall had raised wider questions about royal finanswers. Lowney said it's open to can of worms for the rest of the Royal family about their own financewers, and I hope there's more scrutiny as they need to be more open.

4:43 The BBC also quoted a former senior civil servant criticizing Andrew's travel expenses during his time as a trade envoy. The former official said, I couldn't believe it. It was like it wasn't real money. They weren't spending any of their own money. Constitutional expert Craig Prescott said royal fineans answers have long been a weak point for the monarchy. Prescott said it's always a weak spot for the monarchy. He added the Royal family looked like they had fantastic wealth, and so the perception is of tax payers money going to people who are very, very wealthy in the first place, and it's never a good look. However, Prescott also said if you want to have a monarchy that carries out public functions, then the state should pay for that fundamentally.

5:24 The BBC noted that the current grant is calculated as a percentage of Crown of State profits, even though the Crown of State itself pays its profits to the Treasury and the grant is paid for public funds. A controversial feature known as the golden ratchet has historically allowed the grant to rise but prevent it from falling. The Treasury says forthcoming legislation would allow a one off cut for twenty twenty seven to twenty eight, while keeping the mechanism in place long term. The Treasury spokesman said the golden ratchet would still stay long term. Critics are calling for greater openness. Former Minister Norman Baker wrote, it is instructive that whatever changes to royal fight answers have been announced by governments over the last fifty years, we are always told they are prudent and represent good value for money.

6:06 He added, yet they nearly always end up increasing significantly the income for the royals. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davies said in Parliament we must build a culture of transparency and accountability. Labour MP Rachel Maskell said unaccountable. Power must not hide, privilege must not be protected, money must be accounted for. Historian Anna Whitelock said there was once a public reverence for the royal family, but that modern questions now focus on accountability, transparency, power, influence and money, which might well be thought to shed much needed light and heat on the monarchy. She added that the royals receive public funding if the financing of the monarchy is really a matter for public discussion, and we are left quite deliberately in the dark, more palacing just a moment.

6:57 A landmark court ruling involving the faire family of the Marquess of Bath could eventually have implications for the wider aristocracy and even the royal family. A High Court judge has ruled that the youngest son of seal and Twynn, the eighth Marquess of Bath, and his wife Emma, Marchioness of Bath, could potentially inherit part of his father's fortune despite being born via surrogate. The decision is being viewed as a significant moment for Britain's hereditary system, which has traditionally relied on centuries old definitions of legitimacy that predate modern fertility treatments and surrogacy. Lord and Lady Bath shared two sons, John and Henry. After Lady Bath developed a serious medical condition during her first pregnancy, the couple used an American surrogate to have their second child, Henry, who was their biological son. Because Henry is believed to be the first known member of the British aristocracy born via surrogate, questions emerged about whether he qualified under long standing inheritance rules to aristocratic titles and trusts. In his ruling, Justice Matthews said it would be unfair not to recognize Henry as his father's son. The judge said Henry is the son of Lord and Lady Bath. Not only is he treated by them and will be treated by the world in general, as a child of Lord and Lady Bath's marriage, but he is also their genetic child. Justice Matthews also explained why the family sought the ruling now rather than waiting until later in Harry's life. He said a decision

8:29 can then be taken at a later stage, in the light of appropriate advice, whether to exercise the power to add him. Legal observers say the ruling could eventually influence how aristocratic succession and potentially royal succession rules are interpreted in cases involving assisted reproduction. The article notes that the last major change to royal succession came in twenty thirteen, when Parliament passed the Succession to the Crown Act, ending the system of male preference primogeniture for young royals. That change meant birth order now determines succession regardless of gender, allowing Princess Charlotte to remain the head of Prince Louis in the line of succession after his birth. The Barr family has already made modern aristocratic history before. In twenty twenty, Emathyn became Britain's first black Marchioness when her husband inherited the title following the death of his father. Emma, the daughter of a Nigerian oil businessman and a British mother, has also become known through television appearances and fashion events, including a recent appearance at the met Gala alongside Serena Williams, and there you have it played. Email us addresses the Palace Intrigu at gmail dot com. Please followus on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice. Mark Francis My thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good turns.