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PRINCE ANDREW used £16,000 of taxpayers’ money for a flight to a golf tournament, figures have shown.
The disgraced prince flew in a private jet from Farnborough, Hampshire, to Portrush, in Northern Ireland last July to attend the Open Championship.
The was detailed in the annual sovereign grant report in which royals reveal how they’ve spent money from the Treasury.
It showed that despite the royals’ enormous wealth, the grant had risen from £82.2 million in 2018-19 to £82.4m in 2019-20.
Anti-monarchy group Republic described the ever-increasing grant to the royals as “madness” and called for the system to be scrapped.
Campaigner Graham Smith said: “Why is the government paying for Prince Andrew to go to golfing tournaments, or Princess Anne to attend a rugby match in Italy?”
“This is an abuse of public money far worse than the MPs’ expenses scandal and it has to stop.”
The report also showed that Princess Anne’s trip to Rome for a Six Nations match in February cost the taxpayer £16,440 while Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s high-profile family tour around southern Africa totalled nearly £246,000.
