If the Crown Estates owns Royal Lodge and requires tenants to make repairs to the extent of bringing a building up to code regarding electric, plumbing, as well as replacing roofs, why did Andrew have to pay to have that work done when he signed a lease?
The Crown Estate didn't require Harry (or the Queen, if she was the one holding the lease and allowing Harry the use of the property) to pay for the work that needed to be done on Frogmore Cottage - he only paid for decorating costs and upgrades above what the Crown Estate deemed necessary (until he made the grand gesture of offering to repay the money spent by the Sovereign Grant on Frogmore Cottage, which was quickly accepted).
Either they CE doesn't have such a requirement on long-term leases (and the media is just doing their usual dump on Andrew routine), or there are a lot of CE properties standing vacant, or people renting from them have no brains. Because over the length of a 75-year lease, it's a dead cert that the roof would need to be replaced and there's no way in hell that I would pay for a new roof on a building I didn't own.
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