Andrew risks King's wrath with new plan for Royal Lodge to be passed to Beatrice and Eugenie amid bitter feud

Prince Andrew

The Duke of York and the King are involved in a bitter feud over the royal residence.

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Svar Nanan-Sen

By Svar Nanan-Sen


Published: 20/06/2024

- 10:48

The Duke of York has 54 years left on his lease agreement for the royal residence

Prince Andrew risks suffering King Charles's wrath as a new plan for the Royal Lodge to go to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie has emerged.

The Duke of York and the King are involved in a bitter feud over the royal residence.


Prince Andrew signed a 75-year lease agreement with the Crown Estate for the Royal Lodge in 2003.

The lease has 54 years remaining on it and Andrew plans to honour the terms of the agreement.

Prince Andrew

The Duke of York and the King are involved in a bitter feud over the royal residence.

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However, King Charles is urging his brother to give up the Royal Lodge and downsize to Frogmore Cottage.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were using Frogmore as their UK base but the King evicted the couple last year.

Andrew is refusing to leave Royal Lodge and plans to pass his lease over to his daughters after his death.

The Duke of York is planning to bequeath his Royal Lodge lease to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie so that they can use the property for the remaining years of the lease.

King Charles

King Charles is urging his brother to give up the Royal Lodge and downsize to Frogmore Cottage.

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The King reportedly pays a seven-figure sum every year in funding for Prince Andrew to live at the Royal Lodge but is now contemplating pulling the plug on the funds as their feud goes on.

Last week on GB News' Royal Podcast, Cameron Walker outlined Andrew's financial situation amid his ongoing row with the King.

GB News' Royal Correspondent said on The Royal Record podcast: "Because he's not a working member of the Royal Family, he is not getting any money from a sovereign grant, we believe he may have got some kind of inheritance from the late Queen, but it's not thought to be very much.

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie

The Duke of York is planning to bequeath his Royal Lodge lease to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie so that they can use the property for the remaining years of the lease.

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Prince Andrew

Andrew is refusing to leave Royal Lodge and plans to pass his lease over to his daughters after his death.

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"He has a very modest naval pension. The rest of it is at the moment being funded by King Charles.

Charles therefore controls the purse strings and because the Royal Lodge is not in the guarded perimeter of Windsor Castle, it means it needs its own separate security, which, when Andrew was forced to step back as a working member of the Royal Family, he lost.

"So King Charles pays out of his own pocket to secure his brother and keep him safe."

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