King Charles is set to start the process of removing precious artifacts from Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge home, according to a prominent royal biographer.
The disgraced Duke of York, 64, was poised to leave the Royal Lodge, located on the grounds of Windsor Castle, after Charles refused to continue financially carrying his brother’s weight.
However, it sensationally emerged last week that Andrew had found a mystery financial backer at the eleventh hour — allowing him to remain at the royal digs.
As a result, the monarch, 76, is removing priceless items from the plush property due to maintenance and security concerns.
“The Royal Collection, which owns quite a lot of the treasures inside there, may say, ‘Well we can’t be confident that this place is safe anymore,’ and they’ll start taking the paintings and the some of the furniture away,” King Charles’ biographer Robert Hardman said on the “Palace Confidential” podcast.
He added that Charles has likely accepted the fact that he will be unable to evict his scandal-scarred brother from the home.
“The King is very conscious that [Royal Lodge] is not entirely in his gift,” he said. “It’s a Crown Estate property and the Crown Estate ultimately answers to the government.”
The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.
Andrew has resided at the sprawling property since 2004. He currently lives there with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.
Since finding an anonymous financial backer, Andrew has faced calls from the UK government to reveal the source of his newfound funding.
Exactly where the Duke of York got the funding to remain at the property is still unclear — his only known steady income source is a Royal Navy pension.
It has been reported that Michael Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, approved Andrew’s financing, prompting mass speculation about where the money had come from.
Andrew has been living off a hefty allowance from the king’s personal wealth since 2019 after he was linked to disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
His weighty list of expenses includes $4 million worth of personal security per year, as well as a regular cash allowance — both of which Charles last month said he was no longer willing to cover.
As a result, Andrew was ordered out of the 31-room property into the smaller Frogmore Cottage — but he refused.
The property has been sitting empty since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle handed over the keys in 2023.
“That’s a house that has always belonged to someone who performs public duties on behalf of the nation. It always was when George the Sixth lived there, when Queen Mother lived there, and Prince Andrew to begin with,” Hardman continued.
“He was performing public duties and therefore there was an obligation by the state to look after that property, to make sure it was secure. Now [Andrew] has got no public life, no prospect of a public life, and I think that does bring into question what he’s still doing in a place that was a home for many years of a sovereign.”
Needless to say, the ordeal has left the king “fed up.”
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