Prince Andrew has reportedly agreed to leave Royal Lodge under the condition he can move to Frogmore Cottage, the former home of Prince Harry and Meghan.
Andrew has been facing mounting pressure to leave the 30-bedroom mansion this week amid the continuing outcry over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
According to The Sun, Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson, who also lives at Royal Lodge, have agreed to move out if Andrew can move to Frogmore Cottage and Sarah can move to Adelaide Cottage - where the Prince and Princess of Wales are due to move out of next month.
“No one is really sure how it’s going to go down at the Palace yet,” a friend of the pair told the paper.
“Andy is willing to leave, but these are his demands. He is realistic and knows the writing is on the wall and that his time at Royal Lodge is up. If he must go then he has asked for Frogmore Cottage.”
Andrew has been facing increasing calls to vacate the mansion following the publication of the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre last week. Andrew strenuously denies all accusations against him.
Last week, it also emerged that Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for more than two decades, after paying £1m for the lease in 2003. There are calls from MPs for a Commons debate to discuss Andrew’s situation.
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Liberal Democrats could use final opposition day of the parliamentary session to scrutinise Prince Andrew.
A Liberal Democrat source said: “We need to explore all options, including an opposition day debate, to ensure Parliament can scrutinise this properly, from Prince Andrew’s residence at Royal Lodge to his dukedom.
“The first thing we need is proper transparency and accountability – that’s why we have called for the Crown Estate and Prince Andrew to give evidence under oath in Parliament.”
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Andrew 'agrees to leave Royal Lodge on condition he gets new home'
Sunday 26 October 2025 23:50
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Prince Andrew has reportedly agreed to leave the Royal Lodge under the condition he can move to Frogmore Cottage.
The prince has been facing mounting pressure to leave the 30 bedroom mansion this week.
According to the Sun, Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson, who also lives at Royal Lodge, have agreed to move out if Andrew can move to Frogmore Cottage, and Sarah can move to Adelaide Cottage, where the Prince and Princess of Wales are due to move out of next month.
A friend of the pair told the paper: ““Andy is willing to leave, but these are his demands.
“He is realistic and knows the writing is on the wall and that his time at Royal Lodge is up.
“If he must go then he has asked for Frogmore Cottage.
“Incredibly Sarah has said she wants Adelaide Cottage.”
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Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley felt that the Metropolitan Police should have been investigating Andrew over Giuffre’s claims that she was trafficked to him by Jeffrey Epstein and made to have sex with him in London, New York and the Caribbean, allegations that Andrew has always denied.
“The Met could have done more than they did,” Ms McCawley, 53, told The Sunday Times. “I particularly believe in the light of the email that came out [last weekend] that there should be a thorough investigation. I felt like the Met failed her a number of times.”
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Prince Andrew is reportedly in discussions about leaving Royal Lodge voluntarily following the furore over the “peppercorn” rent for his 30-room mansion.
Obstacles to reaching a settlement are reportedly where Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, will live and what financial recompense he will receive for the funds he spent renovating the home.
There are likely properties on the King’s private Balmoral estate in Scotland and his Sandringham estate in Norfolk that could house Andrew but whether he will accept a smaller home far from his supportive daughters remains to be seen.
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The co-author of Virginia Giuffre’s memoirs says Prince Andrew’s behaviour is “catching up with him” as he is reportedly in discussion about leaving his Royal Lodge home.
The book’s co-author Amy Wallace said Ms Giuffre wanted “wealthy, powerful men to be held to account”.
In an interview with the Associated Press, she said: “What we’re watching is Prince Andrew’s life is being eroded for his past behaviour.
“While he’s not being tried in a court of law, his behaviour’s catching up with him”.
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There have been renewed calls for Prince Andrew to give up his grade II-listed 30-bedroom mansion, Royal Lodge, following another week of scandal for the beleaguered royal.
It has been revealed that Andrew has not paid rent on his Royal Lodge for more than two decades, amid growing calls for him to be removed from public life altogether over continued accusations about his links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
On Friday (17 October), it was announced that he will no longer be known as the Duke of York, while his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson – who still lives with Andrew at Royal Lodge – lost her duchess title.
According to the tenancy agreement released by the crown estate, which was sent to The Independent, Andrew paid £1m for the lease, along with at least £7.5m for refurbishments in 2005. He has paid only “one peppercorn (if demanded)” in rent per year since 2003, when he moved in.
We take a closer look at the huge property that the duke has called home for so many years.
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Virginia Giuffre's lawyer says Met could have done more in Andrew investigation
Sunday 26 October 2025 12:30
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Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley felt that the Metropolitan Police should have been investigating Andrew over Giuffre’s claims that she was trafficked to him by Jeffrey Epstein and made to have sex with him in London, New York and the Caribbean, allegations that Andrew has always denied.
“The Met could have done more than they did,” Ms McCawley, 53, told The Sunday Times. “I particularly believe in the light of the email that came out [last weekend] that there should be a thorough investigation. I felt like the Met failed her a number of times.”
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Prince Andrew is reportedly in discussions about leaving Royal Lodge voluntarily following the furore over the “peppercorn” rent for his 30-room mansion.
Obstacles to reaching a settlement are reportedly where Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, will live and what financial recompense he will receive for the funds he spent renovating the home.
There are likely properties on the King’s private Balmoral estate in Scotland and his Sandringham estate in Norfolk that could house Andrew but whether he will accept a smaller home far from his supportive daughters remains to be seen.
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Lib Dems could use opposition day to scrutinise Andrew in Commons
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Liberal Democrats could use final opposition day of the parliamentary session to scrutinise Prince Andrew.
A Liberal Democrat source said: “We need to explore all options, including an opposition day debate, to ensure Parliament can scrutinise this properly, from Prince Andrew’s residence at Royal Lodge to his dukedom.
“The first thing we need is proper transparency and accountability – that’s why we have called for the Crown Estate and Prince Andrew to give evidence under oath in Parliament.”
The Lib Dems have one opposition day left this parliamentary session, but no date has yet been allocated for it.
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Crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports:
Giuffre, who took her own life in April this year, claims that she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times, including once in London. The prince has always vehemently denied the claims.
Andrew is mentioned a total of 88 times in Giuffre’s 400-page diary-style memoir Nobody’s Girl, which was published on Tuesday.
In her book, Giuffre alleges that she was 17 and had been trafficked when she first slept with the royal while staying at Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London. She says they had sex after a night at the Tramp nightclub – describing Andrew, then 41, as a “bumbling dancer”.
In March 2022, Andrew paid Giuffre an undisclosed amount – estimated to be around $16m – to settle a civil lawsuit in the US, but he accepted no liability in relation to her allegations of sexual assault. She brought the case under the New York Child Victims Act, because it allowed her to raise allegations that would otherwise have fallen outside the statute of limitations in US law.
Given that one of the alleged assaults took place in London, the Met Police have come under pressure to investigate the matter.
The fact that Giuffre claims to have been 17 at the time does not in itself mean the incident was a crime, because the legal age of consent in the UK is 16. However, if it could be proved that Giuffre was a victim of sex trafficking, or that Andrew paid for the encounter, it’s possible that this could have criminal implications for the prince.
Former Met commissioner Cressida Dick claimed that “no one is above the law” when she promised to review documents from the civil suit Giuffre filed in 2021, but the force later confirmed that it was taking no further action against the prince.
It was the third time the Met had refused to launch an investigation. Issues police considered, according to Ms Dick, were whether there was evidence of a crime, and whether the UK was the right jurisdiction to deal with the case.
Family court and women’s rights barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman called for the Met to reopen its investigation, adding that she believes the force has an “entrenched problem with misogyny and a pattern of minimising violence against women and girls”.
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ICYMI: Princess Diana’s brother says he doesn’t like strangers telling him where they were when she died
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Earl Spencer has said he finds it hard when strangers tell him where they were when his sister Princess Diana died.
Charles Spencer discussed his grief on author Gyles Brandreth’s podcast, Rosebud, as he shared how “fundamentally unhappy” he becomes on the anniversary of her death every year.
He said: “I tell you what I do find quite difficult… it probably sounds ungracious but occasionally total strangers come up and feel they must tell me where they were when they heard she died.
“I’m sure that’s helpful to them, it’s not entirely helpful to everyone else.”
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Prince Andrew could face Commons scrutiny over title and peppercorn-rent mansion
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MPs could debate Prince Andrew’s conduct, his 30-room mansion and the possibility of stripping him of his dukedom.
The Government has so far refused to allocate time in the House of Commons for MPs to discuss Andrew’s situation because the royal family wants Parliament to focus on “important issues”.
But the issue could be raised on one of the days when ministers are not in control of the parliamentary timetable.
A Liberal Democrat source indicated to the Sunday Times that the party could be prepared to use one of its opposition days to allow MPs to discuss Andrew’s behaviour.
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'Not too late' for Andrew to come forward, Giuffre’s co-author says
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The co-author of Virginia Giuffre’s memoirs has said it’s “not too late” for Prince Andrew’s to come forward and say what he knew about the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The book’s co-author Amy Wallace said Ms Giuffre wanted “wealthy, powerful men to be held to account” and said Andrew could still help victims of sexual abuse.
“He still denies what is in this book, we should say. But it’s not too late,” she said.
“He could continue to leave aside the things he’s accused of with Virginia. He could still come forward. He was in those houses, he was on the island, he was in the private jet numerous times.
“He could still come forward and say to the authorities, I want to validate these women’s experience.”
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Recap: Prince Andrew under pressure to help the FBI
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Cabinet minister Peter Kyle on Tuesday urged Andrew to cooperate with the US authorities and give evidence about Epstein’s crimes, Amy-Clare Martin writes.
In 2020, a federal investigator accused Andrew of providing “zero cooperation” with the US inquiry into Epstein and his conspirators, despite having promised that he was willing to help when he stood down from public duties in 2019.
This week, business secretary Mr Kyle urged him to stick to his word, telling ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I think anybody that has any information that could bring justice and information to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes should be fully engaging with any of the authorities that are seeking to deliver that information and justice for the victims.”
He added: “Those victims must be first, and they must be central to how we discuss and debate any of these issues relating to the Jeffrey Epstein ... situation, and the crimes he committed. So of course, anybody, anywhere that has information that can deliver that justice should be sharing it openly.
“I believe that Andrew, in the past, has said that he would cooperate, and I urge him to stick to his word on that.”
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick agreed that Andrew should give evidence to the US authorities “about what he knew and what his involvement was” in the scandal.
Could Prince Andrew ever be prosecuted over his links to Jeffrey Epstein?
Sunday 26 October 2025 03:21
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Prince Andrew may have relinquished his royal titles, but his downfall appears to be far from over.
The royal – once widely reported to be Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite child – is facing calls to step away from public life forever as harrowing details of allegations against him are laid bare in Virginia Giuffre’s bombshell posthumous memoir.
The 65-year-old, who denies any wrongdoing, is also under mounting pressure to give up his 30-bedroom royal mansion and start cooperating with the FBI in their investigation into paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin explains:
Andrew’s past ‘catching up with him’ amid controversy over home
Sunday 26 October 2025 02:00
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Athena Stavrou
The co-author of Virginia Giuffre’s memoirs says Prince Andrew’s behaviour is “catching up with him” as he is reportedly in discussion about leaving his Royal Lodge home.
The book’s co-author Amy Wallace said Ms Giuffre wanted “wealthy, powerful men to be held to account”.
In an interview with the Associated Press, she said: “What we’re watching is Prince Andrew’s life is being eroded for his past behaviour.
“While he’s not being tried in a court of law, his behaviour’s catching up with him”.
Where could Andrew move to if he leaves the Royal Lodge?
Sunday 26 October 2025 00:30
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew is reportedly in discussions about leaving Royal Lodge voluntarily following the furore over the “peppercorn” rent for his 30-room mansion.
Obstacles to reaching a settlement are reportedly where Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, will live and what financial recompense he will receive for the funds he spent renovating the home.
There are likely properties on the King’s private Balmoral estate in Scotland and his Sandringham estate in Norfolk that could house Andrew but whether he will accept a smaller home far from his supportive daughters remains to be seen.
Prince Andrew facing historic Commons debate
Saturday 25 October 2025 23:42
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew will likely be at the centre of a historic debate in the Commons, as MPs prepare to discuss his future.
In a major break from convention, the Liberal Democrats have signalled they intend to use their next Opposition Day to discuss formally removing Andrew’s titles, The Times reported.
Though such a debate will likely not pass legislation, it marks more pressure heading the royal family’s way.
