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Privacy Notice It looks like Prince Andrew may get to continue living at Royal Lodge on the Windsor Park estate, despite rumours that his older brother King Charles is keen for him to vacate the sprawling and decaying 30 room home for a smaller property. It is believed that the King would like Andrew to move somewhere else, such as Frogmore Cottage, so Charles’s son Prince William and daughter-in-law Kate and their three children can move into Royal Lodge. However, in an exclusive interview with OK!, former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond explained that the Prince and Princess of Wales may not want to move from their own cosy four bedroom house on the estate, Adelaide Cottage. “I don’t think William and Catherine are in any rush to uproot their little family and move into a new house, especially with everything else that is going on in their lives,” Jennie said. “I think they relish the idea of bringing up the family in relatively modest circumstances, making the children feel less set apart from their friends at school. Royal Lodge is evidently quite a major undertaking with huge overheads to repair and maintain it.”
Andrew does not want to move out of the sprawling Royal Lodge
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King Charles is keen for his brother to move to a smaller property
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Sign up to OK!’s royal newsletter to get updates sent to your inbox for free Andrew has lived at the house for more than 20 years, but because he is no longer a working royal, he is not funded by the public and has been finding it difficult to cover the cost of the annual £400,000 repairs and maintenance on the property. If Andrew were to move out but William and Kate did not to move in, there is another option for Royal Lodge. “Even though it’s in a sensitive location in Windsor Great Park, it’s conceivable that it could be rented out privately to someone who would be willing to pay the overheads,” Jennie added. “But it’s also a house with a great royal history attached and the family may want to keep it that way. So there is a lot to think about…and, in any case, at the moment Prince Andrew shows no inclination to move and he does have a long lease which could be hard to terminate.”
It’s believed that Prince William and his family would prefer not to move into Royal Lodge
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It is believed Prince Andrew has signed a 75 year lease on Royal Lodge, which he shares with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. In June, a source told The Times: “The King’s kindness is not without limit and there is a very good option for Andrew to move into Frogmore Cottage, recently vacated by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, which also has the benefit of being within the Windsor Castle security cordon hence reducing the need for alternative round-the-clock security for Royal Lodge.”Story SavedYou can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnPrince AndrewPrince WilliamKing Charles IIIKate Middleton
