A British parliamentary committee has questioned whether Prince Andrew should still be living in a mansion on the Windsor Estate, west of London, in a rare political intervention sparked by the royal's ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew, 65, the younger brother of King Charles and second son of the late Queen Elizabeth, has come under mounting pressure over his behaviour and ties to Epstein and earlier in October he was forced to stop using his title of Duke of York.

In recent weeks British newspapers have questioned his finances after the Times reported that the prince had not paid rent on his 30-room mansion, called Royal Lodge, for two decades, but had funded at least 7.5 million pounds ($A15 million) of renovations completed in 2005.

The Times cited a copy of the leaseh

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