LONDON – The latest chapter in the saga haunting the House of Windsor could be called “The Prince and the Peppercorn.”

Prince Andrew , who recently relinquished his formal titles after new revelations about his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein , is under pressure to vacate his royal digs where he lives nearly rent-free near Windsor Castle.

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The demoted duke occupies Royal Lodge, a sprawling mansion that eclipses its modest name, for the sum of a single peppercorn a year — a nominal figure that dates back centuries to when the spice was rare and fetched a heftier price.

A steady stream of negative headlines about Andrew and Epstein in the past two weeks led the prince to renounce his titles, including Duke of York, as the monarchy tried to d

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