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Princess Eugenie's charity, The Anti-Slavery Collective, is set to face further scrutiny amid major concerns about spending. The 36-year-old co-founded the charity alongside Julia de Boinville back in 2017.

The Charity Commission has opened a "regulatory compliance" case regarding "concerns" about the charity's spending. Speaking to the BBC News earlier today, a Charity Commission spokesperson said: "We have opened a regulatory compliance case into Anti-Slavery Collective to continue assessing concerns raised with us about charitable spending."

It has been understood that this does not represent a statutory inquiry, and that the body has not yet made any findings or drawn any conclusions. Speaking back in 2021, Eugenie revealed the inspiration behind the charity - sharing that she had been inspired by the work of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn - the authors who wrote Half the Sky in 2009.

This comes after BBC News reported last year that the charity's accounts for the previous financial year showed The Anti-Slavery Collective had raised £1.5m in donations but had distributed very little, with just £1.3m carried forward.

Much of the income collected is shown to have come from a gala held in London back in 2023. However, a source has said that it is "difficult optically to do anything high profile like that again".

The charity's most recently available accounts, which show until April 5, 2025, highlight that donations had slumped to £48,000.

The accounts also show that £191,537 was spent on salaries, which is double what The Anti-Slavery Collective spent on charity programmes

Speaking back in March, a Charity Commission spokesperson told BBC News: "We are assessing concerns raised in the media about charitable spending at The Anti-Slavery Collective to determine what role there is, if any, for the Commission."

Following the controversy surrounding her father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Eugenie stepped down as patron from a separate organisation, Anti-Slavery International, earlier.

Author Andrew Lownie has described Eugenie's continued association with The Anti-Slavery Collective as a "preposterously inappropriate cause" due to the Epstein scandal. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.