Charles III and Prince Andrew are playing out one of the great conflicts of this reign: while the king tries to impose his way of running the Windsor estate, his brother clings tooth and nail to the last symbol of a life that is no more if it emerged a week ago that the sovereign Having withdrawn his brother’s financial and lifetime allowance of more than a million euros a year, to force him to move to a more modest place, now Prince Andrew has hit back with a financial ploy to convince the palace’s accounting authorities that he can continue to live in the Royal Lodge. There are ample funds, his official residence with thirty rooms and thirty million euros. Another fratricidal battle in Windsor doesn’t seem to be the end, and it’s making it clear that, without the protection and protection of Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew is a real survivor.
© GTRESIt has been rotating The Times Who has revealed in the last few hours that Prince Andrew has managed to raise the funds to stay at the Royal Lodge, a funding which has been approved by Michael Stevens, the custodian of the private treasury, and with which he will agree. Palace authorities said he had enough money from “legitimate sources” to stay there. How much money he earned and how he did it is still unknown. Without forgetting the big question: how long? Since without a steady stream of income it seems unsustainable to hold onto a property with high maintenance costs and contract it out Crown Estate (Sovereign’s public patrimony) to be painted, renewed and repaired every five years. What’s more, in the last images taken from outside, the facade was clearly deteriorating.
© Cordon PressThe move comes after many attempts by King Charles III to convert the palace to a more modest one, Frogmore Cottage, the old home which Elizabeth II gave to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their wedding and which they underwent an extensive renovation which they paid for. After they left. However, Prince Andrew refuses to go to this house, which is also located on the grounds of Windsor, and he takes refuge in the dilapidated palace that he shares with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and which reminds us of the royal power that he once had and lost as a result of the Epstein case.
© Cordon PressOver the past few months, King Charles III has unsuccessfully sought a way to get his younger brother to comply with his instructions as the new head of household, but relations between them have never been easy and the Duke of York has never been willing to comply. His brothers and hierarchically superior rules. Before closing off that vital fund, Charles III tested his luck by firing his brother’s personal security team (10 people), substantiating Harry and Meghan’s theory that royals have more decision-making power over security. The plan was that Prince Andrew would feel better about moving to a smaller place if he started paying for his own protection, but that didn’t happen. The Duke of York is doing a real trick to keep his house going, with some British media referring to him as a “palace squatter”.
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Refusal to evaluate other options, including the fabled property of Frogmore Cottage, suggests that the fight is not for the house, but for status. Andrew is clinging to the last bits of his life as a prince, but he no longer has responsibilities as a functioning member of the royal family, royal patronage or any form of representation, so the Royal Lodge (which used to be the official residence of the Queen Mother) is too big for someone in his current condition. is considered It must be remembered that his public appearances were limited to riding on horseback in the same grounds at Windsor, and that he had not attended any official ceremony since a ceremony was celebrated in St. George’s Chapel in memory of Constantine, King of Greece. Who reappeared with the Duchess of York, creating further confusion at a very critical moment, when the Prince of Wales had to admit Kate’s cancer diagnosis.
On the other hand, there has been speculation for months over the possibility that Prince Andrew will do nothing more than buy time for future negotiations in which his daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, will receive that 75-year lease. If so, the plan could work because both King Charles III and Prince William are very fond of the York princesses, leading Prince Andrew to figure out how to protect them from the fall, an irreplaceable public figure for the new heads of state.
© GTRESThe news comes just a month after royal biographer Robert Hardman published his new book (Charles III: The New King. New court. The Inside Story) that the new sovereign gave specific instructions to reduce the lifetime salary that the Duke of York received, believed to have exceeded one million pounds per annum. The reasons were obvious: If he no longer represented the Crown, having stopped doing anything in the fall of 2019 after his disastrous interview that has recently inspired two different films, he would no longer receive an annual allowance. Robert Harman revealed the information based on confirmation from a palace source: “The Duke is no longer a financial burden to the King.” It must be remembered that the royal biographer who has been writing about Windsor for three decades, in the last biography he wrote about Elizabeth II, had already hinted that the reign of Charles III, Duke of York, could be in trouble, being an individual. who seemed to deserve special treatment, for Elizabeth II, as a mother, had never been partial to him, and withheld all privileges for him until it was clear that it was impossible for him to return to official life.
