Prince Andrew 'allowed to keep bodyguards costing taxpayer £300,000 per year'
dailystar.co.ukPrince Andrew may be allowed to keep his tax-payer funded bodyguards that cost hundreds of thousands of pounds per year after previously being warned he would lose the service.Protection for the disgraced 60-year-old Duke of York costs the tax-payer £300,000 per year to keep him safe.The Prince – who has been living under a cloud of controversy since he gave a car-crash interview to the BBC last year regarding his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – had been set to lose his close protection team following a Home Office cost-cutting review.These cutbacks were also due to impact Princess Anne, and Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex and their families.However, The Sun has reported that The Queen requested her children retain.
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