Prince Andrew’s Plan to Beat King Charles in Royal Lodge ‘Siege’

Prince Andrew will defy his brother King Charles’ insistence that he moves out of Royal Lodge,

the 30-room historic Windsor mansion he has called home for the past 20 years, a friend of the prince has told the Daily Beast.

The friend told The Daily Beast: “Andrew can sit tight and run out the clock

Asked if they were suggesting that Andrew thought Charles might die before he could evict Andrew, the friend said Andrew simply intended to stay in the property, which he is legally entitled to do, having a lease on it that will not expire for over 50 years and can be bequeathed to his children, until his brother accepted he had the legal right to stay there.

They added: “Andrew wants his brother to live long and prosper. He is intensely loyal to the monarchy. But it’s not exactly a state secret that Andrew is more than a decade younger than his brother, and that Charles has cancer. Quite why Charles wants this distraction at this moment in his reign is a great mystery to Andrew’s friends. It looks childish and vindictive as I don’t think anyone except Charles would give a damn where Andrew lives if they stopped briefing the newspapers about it.”