King Charles is slicing monetary ties to disgraced Prince Andrew, in keeping with reviews.
Andrew’s annual STG1 million ($A2 million) “residing allowance” has been withdrawn by Charles, in keeping with the serialisation of a brand new ebook by royal author Robert Hardman revealed within the Every day Mail.
The transfer shall be seen as one other step the King has taken to publicly distance himself from his youthful brother following his affiliation with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Hardman writes in his forthcoming ebook that the keeper of the privy purse was “instructed to sever his residing allowance” after Andrew reportedly refused to maneuver out of the Royal Lodge, a 30-room mansion in Windsor Nice Park, west of London, into the close by smaller Frogmore Cottage.
Andrew, the Duke of York, was mentioned to have signed a 75-lease on the Royal Lodge in 2003.
“‘The duke is now not a monetary burden on the King’, confirms one accustomed to the state of affairs,” Hardman writes, citing an insider supply.
“‘He claims to have discovered different sources of revenue associated to his contacts in worldwide commerce, enough to cowl all his prices – which might be a welcome end result for all events if that seems to be the case.
“‘However as as to whether this funding might be relied upon in the long run is one other matter.'”
The Solar reported in August that the King was axing Andrew’s safety on the Royal Lodge, which had been privately funded by Charles after his brother misplaced publicly funded police safety in 2022.
In July, palace officers confirmed Frogmore Cottage, the previous residence of Prince Harry and his spouse Meghan, remained empty greater than a yr after they formally vacated the property.
Strain mounted on Andrew earlier in 2024 after the unsealing of a whole bunch of pages of court docket paperwork related to the Epstein scandal which detailed how the financier’s former housekeeper Juan Alessi claimed the duke had every day massages when he spent “weeks” on the pedophile’s Florida residence.
Earlier allegations that Andrew sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre thrice when she was 17 years outdated, together with throughout an orgy, additionally resurfaced within the court docket paperwork.
He has strenuously denied the allegations, saying he by no means met her, and in 2022 paid thousands and thousands to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil case out of court docket.
Buckingham Palace declined to remark.
