Prince Andrew ‘will not go quietly’ after King Charles escalates bitter feud
Prince Andrew will not make the move to Frogmore Cottage “quietly” as the row over his current residence “escalates”, GB News’ Royal Correspondent has said.
The feud between Andrew and Charles rages on, with the King reportedly set to pull his brother’s privately-funded security in September.
The prince is understood to have been asked to leave Royal Lodge and move to Frogmore Cottage amid security concerns.
Discussing the dispute on The Royal Record, GB News’ Royal Correspondent Cameron Walker and GBNews.com’s Royal Editor Svar Nanan-Sen said there has a “clear escalation” in the row.
Cameron explained that Prince Andrew “appears to or is about to” lose his security after his taxpayer-funded police protection was taken from him after it was announced he was no longer working member of the Royal Family.
Svar said: “It looks like a clear escalation in their ongoing feud over Royal Lodge.
“Andrew currently lives in the 30-room royal residence, and he is pretty adamant that he is not going to downsize.
“Charles is keen for him to find an alternative property and Frogmore Cottage – which is where Meghan and Harry used to stay as their UK base – is something Andrew is not keen on taking up.
“Andrew has a lease on Royal Lodge. He signed it in 2003… a 75 year lease. So it’s got over five decades to go.”
Svar raised concerns over “whether he’ll be as comfortable there knowing there isn’t a privately-funded security team, which was apparently costing the King one million pounds every year”.
He continued: “So it’s certainly an escalation.”
Cameron added that if Andrew moved to Frogmore, it would be more “cost-effective” for the King, as the property is already within the guarded Windsor estate.
“Royal Lodge is in its own separate bit – [it’s] not part of the guarded Windsor perimeter with police protection anyway, which means more security has to be paid to guard Royal Lodge – specifically, that one property,” Cameron told the podcast.
“So the argument is that it’s more cost effective if Prince Andrew moves into a property within the already guarded Windsor estate, because you’ve got working members of the royal family within that, and therefore we don’t need to pay the extra money.
“But Prince Andrew can’t live there without security because although he is no longer a working member of the Royal Family, clearly he is still very high-profile, clearly still the King’s brother.
“But I don’t think he’s going to go quietly somehow. So, perhaps, watch this space because he is used to living in a big place, an old-style mansion, which he is not going to get at Frogmore Cottage.”
