MPs have called on Royals to quit "outrageously" cheap luxury apartments in Kensington Palace.

The public accounts committee was also unhappy with the contrast between publicly-subsidised spacious flats and the "cubicles" occupied by workers.

Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow Pollok, said: "Prince and Princess Michael of Kent undertake no public duties whatsoever, yet live in a royal palace at a peppercorn rent. That is just outrageous. I cannot think of any way in which that can be justified."

The Mail today reports that the Queen offered Prince and Princess Michael of Kent a different house in return for leaving the apartment.