What's Prince Andrew got to hide?

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What really causes concern is that Andrew has spent the last two weeks abroad [REUTERS]

Eugenie, 23, has just begun a year-long job in the city, working for Paddle8, an online auction house that specialises in fine art, and on Wednesday her proud parents took her out for a meal.  "Their schedules allowed that they were both in New York to settle Princess Eugenie into her home," a spokesman for the Duchess said.

Earlier, on Wednesday Eugenie went shopping with her mother near her new apartment in the fashionable SoHo district of Manhattan.
I understand Fergie returned home later that day but Andrew has been around ever since, there to help his daughter in between undertaking a few official royal engagements.

Andrew and Fergie are rightly proud of the way they have got on since their 1996 divorce and have jointly brought up their daughters, Eugenie and her elder sister, Princess Beatrice, 25.

There has been regular speculation over the years that Andrew and his former wife, who lives in part of his house, Royal Lodge at Windsor, might even remarry one day. The couple, however, say that while they remain the best of friends,there is no chance of that happening.

There's nothing wrong with both of them going over to New York to help make sure Eugenie settles in. Any parent would so the same if they could. But has this involved any extra cost to the British taxpayer?

Andrew, 53, is a working member of the Royal Family. He has police protection officers funded by the taxpayer and much of his travel costs are also paid for by you and me when he goes abroad on official duties normally.

Andrew and Fergie are rightly proud of the way they have got on since their 1996 divorce

In short, he seems to have funded the trip to New York partly from his own pocket and partly via the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based independent think tank that asked him to attend a series of events around the world over the last couple of weeks promoting its work on maritime security.

His security team, however, will have run up extra costs by being abroad and the question of who pays for any other members of the entourage remains unclear.

What really causes concern is that Andrew, as usual, has spent the last two weeks abroad on an unannounced world tour. Unlike other members of the Royal Family, he rarely issues any press briefings or lists future engagements in the British monarchy's royal diary of future events. Some courtiers say that is because his office is just badly run. Others, however, suggest it is because he wants to avoid any public scrutiny of his activities.

His staff say he went to Indonesia at the request of Britain's Foreign Office and that trip was funded by the British taxpayer. But since then he has been to Vietnam, Japan and now the United States on a tour partly funded by RUSI and partly by himself.

He has listed his official duties in the Court Circular after the events but there are huge gaps, because he was doing things privately.

Mixing public and private, business and pleasure, is a bad idea for members of the Royal Family when they are abroad.

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