Royal relation will face fraud charge

A great-grandson of Edward VII’S mistress, whose family owns a 6,000-acre Scottish estate, is facing a charge of housing benefit fraud.

Dru Edmonstone – whose great-grandmother Alice Keppel is also the great-grandmother of the Duchess of Cornwall – is accused of fraudulently obtaining more than £81,000 from the state, Stirling Council, and the Royal Burgh of Kensington and Chelsea.

He is also alleged to have pocketed money taken from walkers at a pop-up café on the West Highland Way.