King Charles finally 'evicted Prince Andrew from Buckingham Palace'

2022-12-23

King Charles ‘evicts Prince Andrew from Buckingham Palace after Epstein scandal and will no longer be allowed to have an office in the building or use its address for correspondence,’ source claims

King Charles has finally thrown Prince Andrew out of the royal fold, sources say
He has reportedly been told to no longer use Buckingham Palace as an office
The decision means ‘any presence he had at the Palace is officially over’

King Charles has finally thrown Prince Andrew out of the royal fold and told him he’s ‘on his own’, a source has claimed.

Andrew was told to no longer use Buckingham Palace as an office space, effectively severing his final tie to his old life as a working royal, according to a new report in The Sun.

‘Any presence at the Palace is officially over,’ the source said. ‘The King has made it clear. He isn’t a working royal. He’s on his own.’

As part of the King’s decision, Andrew, 62, will not be able to use the address for any future correspondence.

The skeleton staff which had been retained since he stepped down from public duty three years ago now reportedly face being put out of work.

King Charles has finally thrown Prince Andrew out of the royal fold and told him he’s ‘on his own’, sources claim

Up until this year, he’d kept 10 military affiliations, including colonel of the Grenadier Guards, while he worked to clear his name amid the scandal of his association with US paedophile Jeffery Epstein

As part of the King’s decision, Andrew, 62, will not be able to use the address for any future correspondence

The report comes after Queen Consort Camilla was announced as the disgraced Duke’s replacement as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in a shake-up of senior royal military positions.

The shuffle will also see the Princess of Wales promoted to her first Army role, taking over as colonel of the Irish Guards from her husband.

Prince William will become colonel of the Welsh Guards instead.

Andrew inherited the position of colonel of the Grenadier Guards from his late father, the Duke of Edinburgh, when he retired from public life in 2017.

Andrew is set to join King Charles and other high ranking royals for Christmas dinner at Sandringham tomorrow

Following his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, he was forced by the Queen to step down from official royal duties.

He was finally stripped of the ceremonial title earlier this year in the aftermath of his decision to settle a civil lawsuit with one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, who had also accused him of assault. He has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Andrew is set to join King Charles and other high ranking royals for Christmas dinner at Sandringham tomorrow.

MailOnline has contacted the Palace for comment.

Earlier this year, the Duke of York was left ‘bereft’ and ‘tearful’ when Charles told him, in no uncertain terms, that his days as a working royal were over.

The report comes after Queen Consort Camilla was announced as the disgraced Duke’s replacement as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in a shake-up of senior royal military positions

At the time, a source told the Mail on Sunday ‘Andrew was totally blindsided’ and ‘utterly bereft. He always believed there was a way back’.

Andrew has denied being close to Epstein, who killed himself in jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges.

Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving 20 years in a Florida jail after being found guilty last December on child sex trafficking and other charges.

His mother, the late Queen, reportedly failed to explicitly tell him there would be no way back to public life.

As a result, he was slow to see what the remainder of his family – and the public – had recognised for months.

‘Until the face-to-face meeting with his brother, Andrew believed that there was a way back – that somehow he could be rehabilitated and play a role in The Firm going forward,’ the source said. ‘He came out of the meeting shaken. He is still in shock. He is completely lost and very depressed.’

In the meeting, Charles – who was not yet King – said: ‘Go off and have a good life, a nice life, but public life as a Royal is at an end… You have to accept this. ‘

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