Kate and William lead bid to exile Andrew and Fergie from Royal Lodge as public anger grows at his taxpayer-funded luxury: Waleses 'can't abide' Prince and are pushing for him to leave, author claims.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are determined to 'banish' Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from Windsor's Royal Lodge where they have lived rent free for decades, according to royal biographer Tina Brown.
Ms Brown, a friend of Princess Diana who was editor-in-chief of Tatler and Vanity Fair, has claimed that Prince William and Kate 'can't abide' Andrew and want him to 'disappear'.
She claims having him in Windsor threatens to spoil life at their 'new forever home' Forest Lodge. The couple will move in next month with their three children George, Charlotte and Louis.
William's push to exile Andrew throws an intriguing new light on yesterday's claim that he is beginning to call the shots in the Royal Family because of his father King Charles' health.
Writing on her Fresh Hell Substack, Ms Brown, the highly respected author of The Palace Papers said: 'Unless Andrew can be persuaded to banish himself to a cottage on the Balmoral estate or a cushy villa on a Dubai golf course, his scowly, jowly visage will keep seeping back into the national consciousness'.
Calling Andrew the 'Duke of Dross', she said the future king and queen are pondering: 'How do you disappear a 6-foot-tall, 190-pound, 65-year-old man in robust good health who has an iron-clad contract to live in the Queen Mother’s former mansion, a short neigh from Windsor Castle and just four miles from the new “forever” home of Prince William and Kate, who can’t abide him?'
It came after yet another shocking twist in the royal-Epstein scandal when it emerged last night he hasn't paid rent on his palatial property for 22 years - said to be in the region of £260,000 a year.
Andrew should be kicked out of his Windsor Royal Lodge and disappear because the British public are ‘sick’ of him and he is an embarrassment to his family and the UK, according to Robert Jenrick.
And Andrew could become the first royal to be caught up in a criminal probe in more than 20 years. Scotland Yard has confirmed it is 'actively' probing claims he asked an officer to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre, whose posthumous autobiography is out today.
Brown repeated the claim that William will ban his errant uncle from his coronation - and could even consider keeping away from King Charles' funeral, when the tragedy occurs.
She wrote: 'The thornier question, perhaps approaching faster than anyone is indelicate enough to discuss, is whether, in the fullness of time, Andrew will be allowed to attend his brother, the king’s, funeral'.
Tina cited the toe-curling moment William was stuck next to Andrew outside the Duchess of Kent's funeral at Westminster Cathedral last month.
William looked deeply uncomfortable as his uncle appeared to be laughing as the left the service.
She said: 'The untenable hazard of banning him from public events but allowing him to still show up at family occasions was writ large at the September funeral of the Duchess of Kent, the late queen’s cousin.
'As the mourning royal party paused respectfully in the door of Westminster Cathedral when the duchess’s funeral cortege passed, Andrew loomed like a great white shark at the shoulder of a stone-faced Prince William.
'It was impossible for William, staring implacably in the other direction, to get his uncle’s baleful mug out of the shot. No chance of that happening again'.
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has said it is disgusting that taxpayers are subsiding him to live in a 30-room mansion with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson when he should be paying £200,000 a year.
'I don’t see why the taxpayer frankly should continue to foot the bill. The public are sick of Prince Andrew', he said.
It came after yet another shocking twist in the royal-Epstein scandal when it emerged last night he hasn't paid rent on his palatial property for 22 years.
And Andrew could become the first royal to be caught up in a criminal probe in more than 20 years. Scotland Yard has confirmed it is 'actively' probing claims he asked an officer to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre, whose posthumous autobiography is out today.
Mr Jenrick said: ‘I don’t think the taxpayer should in any way be footing the bill for him to live in luxury homes ever again. He shouldn’t have any taxpayer subsidies going forward.
‘It’s about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private and make his own way in life. He has disgraced himself, he has embarrassed the Royal Family time and again.
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