Posted on 08/18/2024 6:45:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
King Charles has fired the security team stationed at Prince Andrew’s mansion.
According to the Sun, Charles informed the ten-man detail that their contracts at the 31-room Royal Lodge residence would not be renewed in October.
“They are all working the final weeks of their contract till the end of October. It’s not thought anyone is being lined up to replace them,” a palace insider told the outlet. “Everyone is speculating this means the Duke will have to leave the Royal Lodge because what other reason could there be to take his security away?”
Andrews, 64, has lived at the $38 million Royal Lodge, located on the grounds of Windsor Castle, since 2004 after he signed a 75-year lease agreement the previous year.
Following the disclosure of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, Andrew has been threatened with eviction from the royal residence.
Additionally, Us Weekly revealed in May that he has been skipping out on $503,000 in yearly maintenance payments for the property.
Charles had been paying for private security at Andrew’s residence ever since his $3.8 million Met Police protection was taken away when he was stripped of his royal roles by his late mother Queen Elizabeth II.
To keep his younger brother afloat, the King has been giving him $5.1 million annually.
“It isn’t a secret that the King wants him out,” the insider told the Sun.
In January 2022, while Andrew was in the midst of his sex abuse case in the United States, the Queen had brought her third child to Windsor Castle.
The security layoffs come after the news that Andrew has allegedly refused to move from the larger Royal Lodge to the smaller Frogmore Cottage—the house that his nephew Prince Harry was forced to leave in June 2023.
I don’t blame him for not wanting to move into a place called Frogmore. Sounds slimey. Toadless would be better.
Whoa - $5 million a year and he’s shorting the guys who mow the lawn? Damn, Andy. I mean, some of them have to have daughters, right?
Chuck has had the gig for nearly a year, but nonetheless my first thought is always the Stuarts when I see “King Charles.”
There may be 3 Charles, but only 1 John.................
“To keep his younger brother afloat, the King has been giving him $5.1 million annually.”
I guess my older brother did not have such a desire to keep me ‘afloat.’
>>To keep his younger brother afloat, the King has been giving him $5.1 million annually.<<
Oh no! How could anybody survive on such a paltry amount?
Just more evidence that George and the gang were right to bounce those royals out in 1776.
This is apparently what angered Harry so much. He was going to be part of the downsizing of the Royal family.
It’s really too bad, because Harry had all the options in the world, but not the drive to achieve them.
i enjoy learning about the kings and queens of england
there is an excellent 4 hour video about the bloodlines
generally the current family is pretty boring
minor squabbles
how about a fight over succession and family members held prisoner in the tower of london?
ahh those were the days
And people think the United States has a lenient justice system.
In the United States, you get hard time, in the UK, they fire you from your job, let you live in a mansion and give you a stipend of five million a year.
At this rate, Prince William is going to move to Australia with his family because the caliphate is being established in Londonistan.
Maybe Randy Andy could move to California like his nephew did.
I’d suggest he take another flight on the Lolita Express, but that airline isn’t in business anymore.
Read Charles Dickens’ “A Child’s History of England”.
It covers from the Roman period up to his time, Queen Victoria.
It use dto be required reading in British schools.
It’s very informative and entertaining and funny at the same time because of Dickens’ running commentary all throughout the book!.
Only Dickens could make history fun!...........
Still wondering why MI5 and MI6 allowed Epstein access to Andrew...
Oh, it’s still in business.
Just not as an airline.
thank you
sounds interesting
I just read it last year..................
Maybe it was Andrew that contacted Epstein................
True, true... and names look boring going forward, presumably William V and then George VII. Can’t they come up with an Ethelred III or something??
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