Princess Eugenie dragged into new charity row as watchdog ‘assessing concerns’
Princess Eugenie dragged into new charity row as watchdog ‘assessing concerns’
Princess Eugenie’s charity is “under scrutiny” as a watchdog confirmed it is “assessing concerns” over its public spending. The princess co-founded The Anti-Slavery Collective with Julia de Boinville in 2017.
The charity focuses on tackling forced work in business supply chains and human trafficking. It says on its website: “Labour exploitation is currently a high-reward/low-risk business for those who perpetuate it. It is also a feature of business models that extract value from people to increase profit margins.
But according to new reports, a watchdog is looking into the charity’s public spending after “concerns were raised in the media”.
A spokesperson for the UK Charity Commission told GB 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.”
The outlet said that the watchdog has not yet made any findings and there is no timeframe on how long the enquiry will take.
It came after concerns were raised about the charity’s finances after accounts showed it recorded income of £92,311 in the year to April 2025.
However, its total expenditure was £301,024, including £191,537 on staff salaries and £97,206 on charitable programmes, as per the outlet.
The Daily Express has approached the Anti-Slavery Collective for comment.
The charity was founded in 2017, after Eugenie and Julia travelled to Kolkata in India, where they met the late Aloka Mitra, a social activist who led programmes supporting vulnerable women and children in India for over 35 years.
Aloka, who passed away in 2025, founded the Women’s Interlink Foundation, which rescues survivors of modern slavery.
The next five years were spent by the two women on learning more about labour exploitation and modern slavery in the UK and meeting with policy makers, law enforcement agencies, academics, NGOs, social workers, and survivors to find out what support would help, before they founded the charity i 2017.
Eugenie previously said about human trafficking: “Guns and drugs can be only trafficked once but human beings are trafficked again and again and again. For them, it happens every day and minute.
