Princess Eugenie delivered another major blow | Royal | News
Princess Eugenie’s charity, the Anti-Slavery Collective, will face greater scrutiny amid major concerns over spending. The 36-year-old co-founded the charity with Julia de Boinville in 2017.
The Charity Commission opened a “compliance” case over “concerns” about the charity’s spending. Speaking to BBC News earlier today, a Charity Commission spokesman said: “We have brought compliance proceedings against the Anti-Slavery Collective to continue to consider concerns raised with us about charitable spending.”
It became clear that this was not a legal investigation and that the institution had not yet made any findings or reached a conclusion. Speaking in 2021, Eugenie explained the inspiration behind the charity and shared that she was inspired by the work of authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who wrote Half the Sky in 2009.
It comes after BBC News reported last year that the charity’s accounts for the previous financial year showed the Anti-Slavery Collective raised £1.5 million in donations but distributed very little, with only £1.3 million transferred.
The majority of the revenue raised appears to come from a gala held in London in 2023. But one source said it was “optically difficult to do something so high-profile again”.
The charity’s latest available accounts, up to 5 April 2025, highlight donations falling to £48,000.
The accounts also show that £191,537 was spent on wages; That’s twice as much as the Anti-Slavery Collective spends on aid programs.
Speaking in March, a Charity Commission spokesperson told BBC News: “We are considering concerns raised in the media about charitable spending at the Anti-Slavery Collective to determine what role, if any, the Commission will have.”
Eugenie had previously resigned as patron of separate organisation, Anti-Slavery International, following controversy surrounding her father Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
Writer Andrew Lownie described Eugenie’s ongoing association with the Anti-Slavery Collective as “an incredibly inappropriate reason” for the Epstein scandal. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
