Prince Andrew, his £15m home and the Kazakhstan connection

Further mystery over the sale of royal home Daniel Foggo and Steven Swinford, additional reporting Anna Mikhailova ON paper it had seemed like a straightforward transaction when Sunninghill Park, Prince Andrew’s former marital home, was sold to an offshore company for £15m. However, the new owner, or owners, are from Kazakhstan, the oil and gas-rich central Asian state where little is ever as it seems. The estate was called “South-York” when Andrew lived there with his wife, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a nickname coined from Southfork, the home of the Texan Ewing oil family in the television series Dallas. Now an investigation into the purchase has uncovered a cast of characters just as powerful, glamorous and flirtatious as any in the soap. In May The Sunday Times revealed that the foreign buyer had paid £3m more... [read full story]