‘Lazy’ Prince Andrew is ‘hung up on image & grandeur’ & is ‘allowing himself to be humiliated’ amid Royal Lodge row

PRINCE Andrew is "hung up connected representation and grandeur" and is "allowing himself to beryllium humiliated", claims royal pro.

According to esteemed royal commentator Jennie Bond, the existent crushed the disgraced Duke of York, 64, has not near Royal Lodge is due to the fact that helium cares truthful overmuch astir his “status”. 

The challenges Andrew has faced implicit the past 5 years person been well-documented - with his apparent determination to enactment astatine his Royal Lodge home successful Windsor being the latest bony of contention. 

In enactment with King Charles' plans to downsize the monarchy, Prince Andrew was offered a determination from his mansion to the somewhat smaller Frogmore Cottage, which was precocious refurbished by Prince Harry, 40, and Meghan Markle, 43.

And, aft claims that Queen Elizabeth II was besides considering pursuing a akin way arsenic King Charles connected having her 2nd lad determination retired of Royal Lodge, a royal adept has questioned wherefore the Duke is "allowing himself to beryllium truthful humiliated". 

Speaking exclusively to OK!, erstwhile BBC royal analogous Jennie Bond asks: "I wonderment wherefore helium is allowing himself to beryllium truthful humiliated?”

She adds: “He could unrecorded astatine Frogmore, which has capable country for Fergie and the remainder of the household to sojourn erstwhile they want. 

“It is adjacent to the castle and it would springiness him the accidental to calm down relations with his brother, truthful what is stopping him? Status. 

“He is hung up connected representation and grandeur."

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.

While Royal Lodge has a affluent and fascinating history, overmuch of which is tied to the beingness of The Queen Mother, caller pictures highlighted the home's authorities of disrepair, thing which Jennie says volition person made the precocious monarch see different possibilities. 

Jennie continues: "I deliberation the precocious Queen astir apt realised that it didn't look bully to person a disgraced Prince surviving successful a mansion for a peppercorn rent. 

“Andrew was precise overmuch successful awe of his parent and would person obeyed her if she had enactment her ft down and asked him to leave. 

“Charles’s large compression connected his member has been a agelong clip coming and his patience has tally out.

"It is absorbing that the Queen was seemingly of a similar mind."

Reflecting connected however the ongoing statement looks to the nationalist aft Prince Andrew's precise nationalist autumn from grace, Jennie claims: “This is not conscionable money, it is however it looks: an idle and disgraced Duke swanning astir connected his horse, watching craft taking disconnected oregon landing connected a large surface and driving his Range Rover astir his sizeable property with nary disposable means of income but what his mother, and present his big brother, take to springiness him. It’s not a bully image."

It has been reported that the program was to person the Duke determination from Royal Lodge and relocate a abbreviated region distant to Frogmore Cottage, which was vacated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aft they gave it a £2.4 cardinal renovation.

Jennie says: “Charles has fixed him plentifulness of clip and a precise generous enactment to determination into Frogmore cottage which is wrong the information cordon and has precocious had an costly makeover.

"Yes, that‘s conscionable the outgo of the renovation, acold far much than astir radical imagination of having successful their full lifetime. And yet helium seems to deliberation it is beneath him.

“What’s the answer? Earn his surviving - but the estimation of the monarchy is astatine involvement and Andrew has shown profound deficiency of judgement, astatine the precise least, implicit his relationship with the convicted precocious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

“Can helium beryllium trusted to amusement immoderate judgement implicit the benignant of enactment helium mightiness undertake to supply an income?"

It’s nary wonderment 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.