Andrew’s mystery £3m lifeline to stay in Royal Lodge should be revealed with his questionable pals

THE root of Prince Andrew’s £3 cardinal lifeline that means helium tin present enactment successful 30-room Royal Lodge should beryllium revealed, assertion royal experts.

According to royal pros, the disgraced Duke of York, 64, was hopeless to enactment astatine his publicly owned home aft King Charles chopped his allowance, but determination is present caller contention implicit who his concealed benefactor is. 

On this week’s occurrence of Royal Exclusive, Matt Wilkinson, The Sun’s Royal Editor, was joined by News.com.au’s Royal Reporter Bronte Coy and Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair’s Royal Correspondent, to sermon Andrew’s Royal Lodge saga.

According to Matt: “This saga has been going connected for a agelong clip but 1 of the main issues is him astatine the Royal Lodge. 

“We present cognize that Prince Andrew’s money has been taken away, his Annual Allowance by the King, helium has removed it.

“We don’t cognize wherever this money’s travel from. Do you deliberation we should cognize however Andrew has secured wealth to stay successful the Royal Lodge?”

Prince Andrew’s home, Royal Lodge, is simply a £30million 19th period listed Windsor pad that helium shares with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.

It was wherever the precocious Queen Elizabeth spent portion of her puerility and boasts 40 hectares of woodland and lawns, 8 cottages, and lodgings for information personnel.

But Andrew, who moved into Royal Lodge, the erstwhile location of the Queen Mother, successful 2004 - has refused to move, aft taking connected a lease that lasts until 2078.

Charles, 75, is said to person wanted Andrew retired of the location for years, but aft Andrew mislaid his yearly £3million-a-year hand-out from the King, which funded guards astatine Windsor’s Royal Lodge, Bronte explained: “My feeling connected this is, look, he’s retired of royal duties now, truthful there’s a grade that helium tin spell astir his beingness arsenic agelong arsenic it’s supra the line.

“With that said, helium has incredibly atrocious signifier successful the past with choosing his associates and fixed his proximity to a batch of influence, helium has people’s ear, whether oregon not they perceive is simply a full different thing, but helium is successful the royal circle, truthful the information determination is abruptly £3million, oregon thing thereabouts, being fixed to him, seemingly indefinitely, to money him, is it conscionable a 1 mode generous offer?”

Bronte explained that the enigma down the £3million handout should beryllium revealed, arsenic a effect of his ‘questionable’ pals.

She questioned: “Is it for a acceptable play of time? Is determination thing Andrew is going to bash successful return? 

“I deliberation accusation similar that is what’s making radical tense due to the fact that arsenic I said, he’s got very, precise questionable sensation erstwhile it comes to choosing who helium volition align himself with.

“Also astatine a constituent wherever he’s been stripped of each of his funding, immoderate benignant of lifeline, particularly 1 of this size, you would presume would’ve been jumped at.

“He’s hopeless to enactment successful Royal Lodge.”

Following this, Katie agreed: “He doesn’t wanna leave, the King’s not gonna footwear him retired due to the fact that they’re brothers aft all.

“Royal finances are analyzable but fundamentally it comes down to the nationalist expenditure and past the backstage expenditure. 

“The nationalist expenditure, there's a large level of transparency around, we cognize however it’s spent.

“But erstwhile it comes to the backstage finances, it is overmuch much harder to get into that and clearly, Prince Andrew is not a mediocre person.

“He’s got inheritance from his father, from his parent and I would ideate he’s astir apt having to dip into that to enactment astatine Royal Lodge due to the fact that rather rightly truthful the King has chopped disconnected that fiscal tap, arsenic helium did for Prince Harry, due to the fact that Andrew is nary longer a moving subordinate of the royal family. That could ne'er person gone connected indefinitely. 

“I deliberation the occupation for Charles is Andrew doesn't privation to permission Royal Lodge, it’s wherever helium lives with Fergie, he’s digging his heels in, and he’ll enactment for arsenic agelong arsenic helium tin spend to stay.

“And evidently determination is wealth that helium is capable to use.” 

Matt added: “I’m conscionable precise nervous, I’m trying to find retired wherever this wealth is coming from.”

To this, Bronte agreed: “I deliberation with Andrew, radical are precise nervous. 

“I deliberation determination should beryllium a small much reassurance from an authoritative source, possibly not unmasking whoever the idiosyncratic is, but much reassurance that it’s travel from determination radical volition beryllium comfy with.”

The Vanity Fair Royal Correspondent past added: "Because if determination isn’t that puts the King successful a precise hard position.

“And past you’ve got the proximity of Andrew, the benignant of achromatic sheep of the family, it’s not an casual presumption for the King to beryllium in.”

But now, The Sun has revealed that Andrew has negotiated a cheaper extortion woody astatine his leased home which helium refuses to leave.

His program is believed to beryllium bankrolled by Middle East money.

Daughters Beatrice and Eugenie person addressed conferences successful Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.

A root said: “He has his information but astatine a cheaper complaint and helium is managing to concern it himself.

"He has dug his heels successful and is refusing to determination truthful recovered a mode to concern his security.

“How sustainable successful the agelong term, past who knows however agelong helium tin bash it for.”

Author Andrew Lownie, who is penning a daze publication connected the prince, said: “Prince Andrew is apt to person galore forms of income.”

It comes aft quality past week that Andrew had shown Palace officials that helium has the required funds to support upkeep of the 30-room mansion. 

And Sir Michael Stevens, keeper of the privy purse, approved the wealth arsenic coming from morganatic sources, The Times reported.

It’s nary wonderment that eyebrows are being raised implicit however Andrew tin spend his upkeep, fixed helium was stripped of his presumption aft becoming embroiled successful a ungraded owed to his relation with the precocious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

He was accused of intersexual battle by Virginia Giuffre and handed implicit millions to settee the lawsuit against him - though helium has ever vehemently protested his innocence and insisted helium ne'er adjacent met her.

Andrew appeared connected BBC existent affairs amusement Newsnight for a present infamous interview with Emily Maitlis successful November 2019.

While Andrew initially believed his BBC interview had gone 'quite well’, millions of TV viewers thought otherwise.

Following a monolithic backlash, the Duke announced helium would 'step backmost from nationalist duties’. 

Andrew said successful his statement: “It has go wide to maine implicit the past fewer days that the circumstances relating to my erstwhile relation with Jeffrey Epstein has go a large disruption to my family's enactment and the invaluable enactment going connected successful the galore organisations and charities that I americium arrogant to support.

“Therefore, I person asked Her Majesty if I whitethorn measurement backmost from nationalist duties for the foreseeable future, and she has fixed her permission.”

Now, Andrew is present said to unrecorded a alternatively reclusive beingness - spending his days playing golf, riding and watching television down the walls of his property - the refuge helium is said to beryllium hopeless to bent connected to.