Andrew, Sarah & a Royal Lodge question

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Following some of the news stories about Andrew relinquishing Titles & a more local news story saying that he & his ex wife will continue to live in the Royal Lodge makes me wonder how that can be funded. Can they be made to leave if they can't pay?

It has 7 - or 12? - bedrooms so I expect it requires a bit of mopping & dusting each week - so do A & S also employ staff to maintain the property.

Not sure how old they both are either, maybe close to retirement?? but how do they fund a lifestyle without being propped up by the RF. Which prob won't please William too.
Just my tuppence worth question wondering how non working ex Royals with no marketable skills will pay staff wages & buy groceries.

He has a private rental agreement. Not sure they can just kick him out that easily.

I wonder if it was part of the discussions recently with regards to the titles … whether that means he’s in that house for the foreseeable, or he’s out, will no doubt filter out in time

Just my tuppence worth question wondering how non working ex Royals with no marketable skills will pay staff wages & buy groceries.

I think they don't. Wasn't the Epstein loan to pay wages?

In light of the exposure of yet more crap about these two, it’s likely Ferguson is going to find getting money more difficult now her title has gone, so will she and Andrew remarry so she becomes Princess Andrew? I can imagine how desperate she must be now all the freebies etc are drying up.

Andrew has a 100 yr lease, I read the rent was 260k per year!
If he doesn't pay his rent then hopefully he'll get evicted but they can't just throw them both out unless he defaults.
He's probably going to struggle without being funded by the public purse but who knows what money/savings he has behind him but I'd assume, as both of them seemed to be relying on Epstein, that neither have any real money.
I do wonder if he inherited anything from the Queen.
Its not like either of them have a job or are employable.
What a fall from grace.
That interview Andrew gave was an insight into character, what an odious, self entitled prat he is.
He really thought us plebs would fall for his story.
Deserves everything he gets.

I read he is liable for all maintenance costs of the property so if they really wanted him out, the King's staff could go in, find the tiniest bit of things falling to bits and say he is in default of his tenancy agreement and kick him out. The "oh we just can't make him go" is BS in my opinion.

Andrew better hope Charles lives a long time (sorry to be morbid) as William has zero time for him and would have him out on the street in no time.

William and Kate have moved recently and are living without staff and Charles has refused to move to Buckingham Palace. Big changes are coming to the Royal Estates as they have far too many houses for the number of working royals that William wants.

Maybe it's a case of keep your friends close and your enemies closer? If A needs money the easiest option is to write an explosive memoir dishing all the dirt on the RF while making himself look squeaky clean.

There was an interesting article on this in The Times at the weekend. Essentially - it’s not possible to throw him out because he has a lease until 2078. And it’s not at all clear how he’s paying for it.

I think the next thing in William’s intray is to have some sort of audit system for Royal finances including gifts etc. Who’s funding Andrew? And what are they getting in return? It must be something - you don’t chuck a quarter of a million a year at a cosseted, reputationally-damaged non-entity for no reason.

William and Kate haven't moved, they are moving in November and they really will not be without staff! There are numerous cottages in his grounds of Forest Lodge and people were moved out to make way for these cottages to be used

I do believe that there is still money coming from the middle East for Andrew. If not it is very odd that his daughters are spending an inordinate amount of time over there.
I have no idea how he can afford to live in Royal lodge. It's a 100 acre Estate

Because that worked so we for Harry 😂

The queen left him millions I think

Family (inherited) money would make sense when no other ££ to fund their days seem obvious. But if the ££ get spent like quicksilver it won't last that long.
Thanks for the comments, I hadn't realized he has quite a lengthy lease on the place

He hasn’t been funded by the public purse since the Queen made him step down. She will have left him money of course.

I saw on GMTV this morning,The royal lodge you'd think would be a modest affair nope it has 30 bedrooms.
The hole he's dug just gets deeper and it's high time Epstein's American pals were named.
PA wasn't his only mate.

Very true. Maybe that also explains the wishy-washy statement of he has done it for the good of the country blah blah rather than a really sharp statement from the King.

I listened to a very interesting discussion on the radio this morning.
It sounds like there is a heck of a lot more to come out and the consensus between these people discussing it was that he really should move out of royal Lodge. Apparently details of the tenancy have been applied for to be looked at and those discussing it this morning said it is not that hard to break a lease

My personal opinion is that Charles has told him to lose these titles and if he does he can stay in Royal Lodge BUT ONLY if there are no more surprises to come. I have a feeling there are

I imagine that he has inherited money from G parents and parents.

Whilst it would be more than enough for most people to live off, but not when you're an arrogant, pompous, stuck up snobby twat like A that has never had to think about living with in their means.

I can't imagine that Royal Lodge has 30 bedrooms, 30 rooms sounds more likely.

If the Crown Estate can prove he hasn't kept to the terms of the lease they can evict him. Otherwise there is nothing legally anyone can do.

The Times have got a copy
of the lease from the Crown estate and it’s been confirmed he hasn’t paid any rent in two decades.
It looks like what he paid for refurbishment is in lieu of the notional rent.
Prince Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for two decades

https://www.thetimes.com/article/aa2e4e77-c534-4ea5-807b-9d212fe1a6b4?shareToken=2e5b38436d41e7ffc87e72039871541a

I'm out of the loop. Why do rich people from the Middle East keep funding Andrew and Fergie? What's in it for them?

I don’t think he will stay in Royal Lodge for much longer. It’s massive and expensive. Even if Andrew inherited ££££ from QEII he is relatively young and can’t afford to fritter it all away with no income and no prospect of any income.

Charles is almost two years into cancer treatment and I believe it won’t be long until William is the king. I don’t think William will be at all understanding or agreeable to Andrew then. He has always seemed to have a good relationship with Beatrice and Eugenie which is perhaps the only think Andrew has in his favour of how he is treated.

@ThePoshUns I like how they write 25 pages iron clad lease he must not bring criminality or disrepute to owner! .

It's absurd to think he didn't get a hefty sum from his parents. It's said harry was compensated for being the spare by his granny.

Do we know any inheritance figures ?

Quelle surprise !!!!

The house of cards is collapsing.

I think he will be relocating to the ME as a ‘guest’ of one of the RF, royal mansion, private jets, golf, horse riding, some serious privacy and defamation laws. He would be able to do whatever he wanted and accept handouts left, right and center.

If William and Kate had eyes on Royal Lodge and they were likely to get Andrew out, they would not be moving to Forest Lodge and would have waited.

Personally I think RL is far too big and grand for W&K and not an image they would want to promote. Plus the fact that now the house will always be associated with Andrew.

Forest Lodge, albeit bigger than their current home Adelaide Cottage, is not hugely grand by royal standards, think Highgrove, Gatcombe Park, Bagshott, and more suited to a young modern royal family. And after all they still have KP and Amner Hall.