Prince William has removed Queen Camilla’s interior designer sister Annabel Elliot from the payroll after taking over the Duchy of Cornwall.
Ms Elliot, 75, has been paid several hundred thousand pounds for her services over the last two decades.
She was employed by the then Prince of Wales, as chief designer of his estates following his 2005 marriage to Queen Camilla.
Since joining ‘team Cornwall’, she has conducted work on the Duchy holiday cottage portfolio, decorating and updating its period properties in Cornwall, Wales and the Isles of Scilly.
Sources confirmed to The Telegraph that Prince William would no longer employ Ms Elliot, although it was no reflection on her work
The Duchy’s annual accounts detail how she had been paid “in the normal course of business and on an arm’s length basis” varying amounts ranging between £19,625 and £82,272 to maintain its rental properties as well as the Duchy offices and its plant nursery.
Ms Elliot was reimbursed additional amounts each year, ranging from £7,160 to £90,285, for the purchase of furniture, furnishings and retail stock.
Queen Camilla’s sister was also employed to oversee the refurbishment of a 20-bedroom pub in the centre of the King’s Poundbury development in Dorset and to help convert two cottages and a lodge for guests at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, which the monarch saved for the nation in 2007.
The latest Duchy of Cornwall accounts, detailing the incomings and outgoings of Prince William’s first full year as Duke of Cornwall, reveal that for the first time in almost two decades, Ms Elliot was not paid for her services during 2023-2024.
Standing by Queen Camilla’s side at Westminster Abbey during the coronation was her sister, Annabel, who had recently lost her husband Simon. The sisters are said to be extremely close.
In 2014, Ms Elliot was ranked as the fifth most influential female interior designer by The Telegraph.
