CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 21: Queen Camilla and King Charles III attend the ceremonial welcome and Parliamentary reception at the Australian Parliament House on October 21, 2024, in Canberra, Australia. The King's visit to Australia is his first as monarch, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa will be his first as head of the Commonwealth. (Photo by Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images)
King Charles has confiscated all the valuable objects from The Royal Lodge in preparation for his brother Prince Andrew.
Andrew has lived in the Royal Lodge, located on the grounds of Windsor Castle, since 2004 and has a 75-year lease on rental. Amid financial woes, his older brother Charles had been funding his maintenance of the lodge for some time. However, Charles recently made clear he would no longer be financially supporting his brother.
Expected to lose the rental, last week Andrew mysteriously found an anonymous financial source to fund his lifestyle in the Royal Lodge, much to Charles’ chagrin.
A biographer of the king, Robert Hardman revealed on the Palace Confidential podcast, “The Royal Collection, which owns quite a lot of the treasures inside there, may say, ‘Well, we can’t be confident that this place is safe anymore’ They’re starting taking the paintings and some of the furniture away.”
Hardman noted that Charles knows he will realistically not be able to evict Andrew, and would rather position the space for his brother’s lifestyle. Charles has doubted Andrew’s ability to pay for the rental home’s required refurbishments and maintenance due to Andrew’s mismanaged finances. Since the arrival of Andrew’s mysterious financial source, he has begun to prepare the lodge by stripping it of any priceless items to the family he believes Andrew will sell or neglect to maintain.
The Royal Lodge is supposed to be reserved specifically for working royals, which Andrew is no longer. The late Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of his status when his relationship with infamous preditor Jeffrey Epstein came to light in 2019, along with allegations of abuse against women.
Andrew consistently denied allegations of assault by Virginia Giuffer, starting in 2001 when she was 16 and a trafficked victim of Epstein. In February 2022, Andrew reached a settlement agreement with Giuffe, part of which required he make a sizable donation to her victims charity.
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