King Charles is about to start out the method of eradicating treasured artifacts from Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence, in line with a distinguished royal biographer.
The disgraced Duke of York, 64, was poised to depart the Royal Lodge, situated on the grounds of Windsor Fortress, after Charles refused to proceed financially carrying his brother’s weight.
Nevertheless, it sensationally emerged final week that Andrew had discovered a thriller monetary backer on the eleventh hour — permitting him to stay on the royal digs.
In consequence, the monarch, 76, is eradicating priceless gadgets from the plush property attributable to upkeep and safety considerations.
“The Royal Collection, which owns quite a lot of the treasures inside there, may say, ‘Well we can’t be confident that this place is safe anymore,’ and they’ll start taking the paintings and the some of the furniture away,” King Charles’ biographer Robert Hardman mentioned on the “Palace Confidential” podcast.
He added that Charles has seemingly accepted the truth that he will likely be unable to evict his scandal-scarred brother from the house.
“The King is very conscious that [Royal Lodge] is not entirely in his gift,” he mentioned. “It’s a Crown Estate property and the Crown Estate ultimately answers to the government.”
The Submit has reached out to Buckingham Palace for remark.
Andrew has resided on the sprawling property since 2004. He at present lives there along with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
Since discovering an nameless monetary backer, Andrew has confronted calls from the UK authorities to disclose the supply of his newfound funding.
Precisely the place the Duke of York received the funding to stay on the property continues to be unclear — his solely recognized regular revenue supply is a Royal Navy pension.
It has been reported that Michael Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, accepted Andrew’s financing, prompting mass hypothesis about the place the cash had come from.
Andrew has been residing off a hefty allowance from the king’s private wealth since 2019 after he was linked to disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
His weighty record of bills consists of $4 million value of non-public safety per 12 months, in addition to a daily money allowance — each of which Charles final month mentioned he was now not keen to cowl.
In consequence, Andrew was ordered out of the 31-room property into the smaller Frogmore Cottage — however he refused.
The property has been sitting empty since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle handed over the keys in 2023.
“That’s a house that has always belonged to someone who performs public duties on behalf of the nation. It always was when George the Sixth lived there, when Queen Mother lived there, and Prince Andrew to begin with,” Hardman continued.
“He was performing public duties and therefore there was an obligation by the state to look after that property, to make sure it was secure. Now [Andrew] has got no public life, no prospect of a public life, and I think that does bring into question what he’s still doing in a place that was a home for many years of a sovereign.”
Evidently, the ordeal has left the king “fed up.”
