OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Sunday, August 18, 2024 9:41 AM
King Charles has fired the security team stationed at Prince Andrew’s residence.
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According to solarCharles informed his 10-member corps that their leases at the 31-room Royal Lodge mansion would not be renewed in October.
“They are all working the final weeks of their contracts, which run until the end of October, and it is not thought they will be replaced,” a palace source told the outlet. “Everyone is speculating that this means the Duke will have to leave Royal Lodge. What other reason would there be to take away his security?”
Andrews, 64, has lived in the $38 million Royal Lodge on the grounds of Windsor Castle since 2004, having signed a 75-year lease the previous year.
Prince Andrew has been facing eviction from the royal residence since his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was revealed in 2019.
moreover, Us Weekly In May, he revealed he had not paid the estate’s annual $503,000 management fees.
Prince Charles has been paying for private security for Prince Andrew’s residence since he was stripped of his royal duties by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, and ended the Metropolitan Police’s $3.8 million security service.
The King has been giving his brother $5.1 million a year to support him.
“It’s no secret that the king wants him gone,” the source said. solar.
In January 2022, the Queen brought her third child to Windsor Castle while Prince Andrew was in the midst of a sexual abuse scandal in the United States.
The security cuts come following news that Prince Andrew has reportedly refused to move from the larger Royal Lodge to the smaller Frogmore Cottage – the home his nephew, Prince Harry, is forced to move out of in June 2023.
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