Even though Andrew has been fully ousted from the royal family in a humiliating blow from King Charles that hasn’t stopped the former Duke of York to make one last attempt to gain some favour.
In a statement issued by Buckingham Palace has revealed that Andrew’s Style, Titles and Honours will be removed via a formal process and he is asked to “surrender” his 75-year lease on Royal Lodge.
As Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson pack their bags and clear out of the 30-room mansion on the Windsor estate, the disgraced brother of the King is “insisting” on “an appropriate home and a rota of staff fit for the son — however debased — of a queen and the father of two royal princesses”, according to a royal source cited by Daily Mail.
It was previously suggested that Andrew will be moved to a house on Charles’s Sandringham estate by 2026 but the former Duke is “playing hardball” by sending in a list of demands.
He is begging his elder brother to give him a “private cook, a housekeeper, and a secretary-cum-butler, plus gardeners”. He is also demanding that he “wants the right to roam, rather than being confined to quarters” especially since he has been banned from the riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle to stay away from the public eye.
The insider insisted that the King’s brother will “certainly go quietly and allow the Royal Family to save face” but he still has conditions.
The royals were forced to take action after the uproar in the public about taxpayers funding his lifestyle given the harrowing allegations against him.
