Real reason Prince Andrew won't leave Royal Lodge despite King Charles' 'pressure'

Prince Andrew has been resisting the King's unit to permission the Royal Lodge - and present a royal adept has revealed precisely wherefore the disgraced prince is refusing to budge from the £30million home

A Royal adept has spilled the beans connected wherefore Prince Andrew is digging his heels successful astatine Royal Lodge, contempt King Charles turning up the vigor for him to vacate the £30million Windsor residence. The 75-year-old monarch has been nudging his member to see a much humble abode, adjacent suggesting Frogmore Cottage, antecedently occupied by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

On apical of that, the King has tightened the purse strings connected information for Andrew's digs, which he's believed to person been bankrolling, yet the 64-year-old prince remains defiant, claiming he'll ft the measure for his ain extortion squad. According to Royal commentator Rupert Bell, speaking to Times Radio, it's Andrew's "arrogance" that's keeping him anchored to the spot helium leased for 75 years backmost successful 2003, reports the Express.

Bell remarked: "One of the problems that Prince Andrew has is that helium is occasionally convinced of his rightness, and helium gets himself into blistery h2o with his stubbornness and sometimes his ain arrogance has caused him to make these problems."

He added, "He feels similar helium mislaid everything and if helium loses his house, good past helium astir apt feels that adjacent much has been taken distant from him."

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Bell besides noted the intriguing powerfulness play betwixt the siblings, saying, "It's an absorbing dynamic betwixt these 2 but King is trying successful a mode to unit his manus but if Andrew says I tin spend to unrecorded here, past there's not overmuch the King tin do."

An insider spilled the beans to the Sun connected Sunday: "Prince Andrew is holding steadfast and is determined to enactment successful the Royal Lodge."

They added that "He is insistent that helium has the funds to wage for his ain security, contempt the eyewatering seven-figure sum it is reportedly costing him."

The root further claimed, "He is nary longer a fiscal load connected the King and sees nary crushed wherefore helium should person to determination from his home."

It's besides been disclosed that Prince Andrew has aspirations for Royal Lodge to walk down to his daughters, Princess Eugenie, 34, and Princess Beatrice, 36. Despite their Royal lineage, neither princess is included successful King Charles' imaginativeness of a "slimmed down monarchy" which commenced with his ascension alongside Queen Camilla.