Royal Lodge - Is it forCamilla?

[KindnessJunkette]

This seems to have caught fire in some places:

https://www.gbnews.com/royal/prince-andrew-rift-king-charles-queen-camilla-royal-news

Royal Lodge was the home of the Queen Mother. If he thinks Camilla will outlive him it could come about. I can see him wanting to protect her status through that love.

He never struck me as the gardening type.

No, plus the same with the Sussexes.
So desperate to cling on to the titles, the status, the millions, just greedy, mendacious and grasping.

Winners in the lottery of life. Less tax for everyone else. More tax for the top 5%.

Indeed. Yet still they complain on Netflix, moan about their misfortune and cash in on their connections by writing about the relatives being shite. . Just awful people.

Nah. Just privileged. Human beings at the end of the day.

That’s a very good point actually. Hadn’t thought of that.

That’s a really good idea.

I think a version of this is a good idea, ten to 12 spacious apartments. That'd house all the spares in a secure patch

I agree with a PP, the optics of KC paying to keep the building from falling to ruin would not make good press. So he's stuck between a rock and a hard place. Andrew is too arrogant and entitled to offer to downsize.

That was my take on it too. He doesn't want the burden of dealing with Andrew to fall on to William's shoulders.

No the key issue is that Royal Lodge needs several million pounds a year spent on security. Charles is currently funding that. So there's a direct contrast between how much he's paying out for Andrew on security and how little for Harry, his own son who also hasn't been implicated in sex scandals with trafficked women. That's the nub. The issue about Royal Lodge falling into disrepair is that that makes Andrew in breach of the terms of his lease (I assume) and therefore provides leverage to evict him to avoid this really awkward and expensive and terrible optics issue with multi million pound security. If Andrew moves into Frogmore Cottage the security is already in place, purely because of where it is on the Windsor Estate.

Apologies if that's already been said - just replied to this post; haven't rtft.

Interesting re the security! Thinks more of Andrew than his son are you saying? I think he would pay for Harry if Harry buys a house. Lots of mutual love there.

I think it's more that the situation Charles has been forced into/ inherited sends a message that he's more prepared to fund a paedo brother than a deeply upset son. And he seems uncomfortable with that - quite right that he should be; no criticism there at all.

Why should he fund a son who had left the country and doesn’t do anything at all for the RF, in fact tries to undermine and destroy them? Charles can’t pay for US security for the rest of Harry’s life. That would be ridiculous. Harry is a very rich man. He can afford to fund it himself.
Andrew isn’t a paedo. He also lives in the UK on Royal property so it’s easier to organise protection. Andrew is a problem inherited by Charles from his mother. He seems to be trying to sort the problem out as much as he can so William isn’t in the same position.

I think to all intents and purposes, she still lives there. It’s just when she is working as a royal that she sometimes stays elsewhere with Charles.

No-one is suggesting that Charles pays for Harry's US security. The issue is about security when Harry is on UK soil. The difficulty Charles currently has is that because Royal Lodge is outwith the Windsor Estate his bill for Andrew's protection runs into several million pounds a year. And strictly speaking - only legally of course, you're welcome to take a different view on moral grounds if you wish.... - Andrew is a paedo. Which is why he's now almost universally regarded as such.

That was @Passiflora2

The only information on Royal Lodge "falling in to disrepair" is a single Daily Mail article, which contains no firm information, other than the outside painting should have been re-done by now.

Also, it's part of the Windsor Estate, and isn't that all covered by the static security that protects the homes of all residents? Security for the buildings and grounds isn't the sort of personal security (bodyguards) that seems to be Harry's main concern

DH and I were walking through the grounds of Windsor Great Park last year to Windsor Castle - not knowing it was the day of the Order of the Garter ceremony. We came to an open gate on part of the walk and a car was coming towards us, we stood to one side, and as it went by saw it was Andrew dressed in a collar and tie. When we got closer to the Castle, there were loads of people in formal clothes walking in to the Castle grounds for the ceremony.

My point being that although it is in Windsor Great Park, Royal Lodge is not one of the properties in the main security corden, and the residents need to drive past the likes of DH and me to get anywhere. Thus the need for expensive security.

A pedophile is someone interested in prepubescent children not in 16/17 year old girls.

No, the cost of Andrew's personal security is the issue. This was be almost wiped out by a move to Frogmore Cottage. That is the problem. Andrew with all the abhorrent things that he's done being protected at the cost of millions while Harry is having to fight for personal security. It's a shocking look.

yeh, i'd like to know how dilapidated it is. Is it that the cupboards are a bit dated?

Or is it crumbling in places, bathroom tiles allowing moisture into the structure?

Harry isn't having to fight for personal security though. His security needs are assessed and provided for whenever he visits the UK (as long as he gives reasonable notice).

In the sense that he took a case to court Baital.

Yes exactly. What he wanted was security paid for in the US using a private firm . At tax payers expense.