This comes arsenic Prince Andrew has mislaid his yearly £3million-a-year hand-out from King Charles
- Published: 20:03, 25 Nov 2024
- Updated: 20:03, 25 Nov 2024
PRINCE Andrew’s diary was erstwhile filled with planetary question and swanky events.
However, the disgraced Duke of York spends astir of his clip unopen distant astatine the “crumbling” Royal Lodge successful Windsor, with his “loyal” daughters taking it successful turns to cheque successful connected him.
Five years aft his divisive Newsnight interrogation triggered the extremity to his nationalist life, Prince Andrew present leans connected "protective” Princess Beatrice, 36, and Princess Eugenie, 34.
A root tells HELLO!: "The girls instrumentality the grandchildren to sojourn him astir weekends.
“They are spending acold much clip with him present than they person done successful caller years.
"They are rather adjacent to their father; they look to beryllium rather protective towards him."
The Duke of York - who shares his £30million, 30-bedroom location with ex woman Sarah Ferguson - is said to person recovered solace successful his grandkids.
He has been seen driving Sienna Mapelli-Mozzi - the three-year-old girl of Beatrice and hubby Edoardo Mapelli-Mozzi - astir the Windsor Estate.
Andrew has besides been helping his young granddaughter instrumentality the reins arsenic she learns to thrust horses, which is simply a fashionable hobby successful the royal family.
Both Beatrice and Eugenie are besides said to person invited friends implicit to the property to spell shooting successful caller weeks.
When Prince Andrew isn’t spending clip with his grandkids, helium plays golf and horserides himself successful the grounds of Windsor Castle.
He besides spends clip with erstwhile woman Sarah, Duchess of York, and they locomotion their 5 Norfolk Terriers, and 2 Corgis, who utilized to beryllium to the precocious Queen.
Andrew’s enigma £3m lifeline to enactment successful Royal Lodge should beryllium revealed with his questionable pals
Prince Andrew stepped backmost from nationalist beingness successful 2019, pursuing being linked to American financier and kid enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Royal writer Robert Hardman tells HELLO!'s Right Royal Podcast: "He's got thing else, he's got nary nationalist life, helium has nary nationalist role.
"He is intelligibly devoted to this location and helium likes being there, truthful if helium tin marque it work, he's going to try."
The 19th period listed Royal Lodge 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.
Charles, 75, is said to person wanted Andrew retired of the location for years.
But Andrew, who moved into Royal Lodge successful 2004 - has refused to move, aft taking connected a lease that lasts until 2078.
Inside Prince Andrew's 'crumbling' Royal Lodge
THE disgraced Duke of York resides astatine the £30million Royal Lodge successful Windsor Great Park, Berkshire - astatine slightest for now.
King Charles has redoubled his efforts to evict the Duke - with insiders branding the stand-off the "siege of Royal Lodge".
Despite his divorce from Sarah Ferguson in 1996, Prince Andrew lives with his ex-wife astatine the countryside estate.
Prince Andrew's royal residence, with its eye-catching achromatic exterior, boasts 30 rooms with plentifulness of abstraction for entertaining, positive 7 bedrooms dispersed crossed the 2 topmost floors.
The Duke of York is said to walk each time "watching TV successful a acheronian room" similar a captive astatine his "crumbling" home.
Royal Lodge is said to "need extended repairs", thought to beryllium astir £400,000 a year.
The monarch is said to beryllium becoming progressively frustrated astatine Andrew’s refusal to attraction for the colossal mansion.
Andrew is said to person promised King Charles he would instrumentality attraction of its costly repairs - contempt having nary evident root of income.
His Majesty urged him to travel the precocious Queen’s program and determination out of the 30-bed mansion and into adjacent Frogmore Cottage, the erstwhile location of Prince Harry and Meghan.
This month, we revealed however Prince Andrew - who does not enactment but has links to oligarchs - has mislaid his yearly £3million-a-year hand-out from member Charles which funded guards astatine Windsor’s Royal Lodge.
But Andrew has present convinced Palace authorities helium has capable funds to enactment himself, including information costing £3million annually and repairing the 19th period Grade II listed property astatine astir £400,000 a year.
His program is believed to beryllium bankrolled by Middle East money.