King Charles 'handed Andrew big money' to end Royal Lodge standoff

King Charles is alleged to have paid Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor large sums of money to finally persuade him to leave Royal Lodge, according to a royal author.

The disgraced former prince has lived at the 30-room mansion on the Windsor Estate for more than 20 years, but pressure has steadily mounted for him to vacate the property as scandals surrounding his association with Jeffrey Epstein continued to dominate headlines.

Royal insiders have long claimed that removing his younger brother from the estate was one of the monarch’s most awkward internal battles.

Now, royal author Andrew Lownie has claimed that money played a key role in finally resolving the stalemate.

Speaking on the Sunday Morning podcast, Lownie suggested Andrew’s decision to leave Royal Lodge and relocate to a smaller property on the Sandringham Estate may have been encouraged by financial payments from the King.

“In terms of Andrew, he had his naval pension, he had £250,000 a year when he was trade envoy, I think the Queen gave him £1million a year which is now gone but he has plenty of money”, eh said

“He has been doing business deals for a long time now, about 30 years, with all sorts of regimes and characters so he is not short of a penny”, he continued.

“I think also, it has been kept very quiet, but Charles has actually paid him large sums of money to move out of Royal Lodge, seeing that the optics look pretty terrible if he was there so he is not short of a bob or two.”

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