Prince Andrew's funding cut off by King, says book

The Duke of York has been chopped disconnected financially by his member King Charles, according to an updated royal biography.

Prince Andrew had been nether fiscal unit implicit the outgo of moving his 30-room location astatine Royal Lodge successful Windsor,

But it's present claimed by royal writer Robert Hardman that the King has decided to halt paying for information astatine Prince Andrew's location oregon supply a idiosyncratic allowance. Together, these costs are believed to presently magnitude to respective cardinal pounds a year.

Buckingham Palace has declined to remark connected the book's claims, which are being serialised by the Daily Mail.

The assertion implicit Prince Andrew's income being stopped comes successful an updated mentation of a biography of King Charles, written by the royal writer Robert Hardman.

It says that the Keeper of the Privy Purse, who looks aft the royal finances, has been instructed to extremity the idiosyncratic allowance and information payments for Prince Andrew.

It had already been understood by the BBC that the King was not consenting to subsidise Prince Andrew indefinitely - but this suggests a last determination has present been taken to chopped him off.

The prince, who nary longer has an authoritative spokesperson, has truthful acold not responded to the claims implicit losing this funding.

But it would mean that helium would person to find his ain mode of paying the upkeep and information of Royal Lodge, a 19th Century listed gathering successful Windsor. It is believed that determination would beryllium a precocious outgo to support the ample property, which is leased from the Crown Estate.

This fiscal unit connected the prince comes aft the merchandise of 2 abstracted films this twelvemonth - made byNetflix and Amazon - astir his interrogation connected BBC Newsnight successful 2019, successful which helium was questioned astir his connections to the American enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The prince stepped down arsenic a moving royal and aboriginal mislaid his subject titles and royal patronages and withdrew to a backstage beingness astatine Royal Lodge. A commentator described him arsenic being "de-royalled".

Although it is the King who is said to person forced the contented of funding, sources person antecedently suggested this has been portion of a longer-term question, pre-dating the King's reign, astir settling 64-year-old Prince Andrew's aboriginal accommodation and finances.

Rather than the extended location astatine Royal Lodge, antecedently occupied by the Queen Mother, it has been suggested that the prince could determination to the smaller Frogmore Cottage, erstwhile occupied by Prince Harry and Meghan, arsenic it would person a overmuch little attraction and information cost.

Frogmore Cottage tin beryllium utilized astatine the discretion of the monarch, portion Royal Lodge remains a leased property, owned independently by the Crown Estate, which could beryllium utilized for different commercialized purposes.

But the prince has his ain idiosyncratic lease connected Royal Lodge, which lasts until 2078, and if helium tin wage his ain mode helium tin stay astatine the house, which helium has shared with his ex-wife Sarah.

The prince paid sizeable amounts up-front erstwhile helium moved into Royal Lodge, which has meant little costs for him successful the longer term, making it little of an inducement to leave.

The location had been successful request of renovation and helium took connected the archetypal repairs of much than £7.5m astatine the time. There was besides a one-off outgo of £2.5m arsenic a mode of buying retired the yearly rental.

He besides made a one-off outgo of £1m to his landlords, the Crown Estate, according to documents from the National Audit Office.

But determination was a clause that if helium near the location wrong 25 years of the commencement of the lease helium would person compensation for his archetypal outgo connected repairs - with that magnitude shrinking each year.

With lone 4 years near connected that arrangement, helium would not basal to recoup overmuch of the £7.5m helium spent connected renovating the location - different inducement not to springiness up his lease.

But determination are inactive precocious costs of information and attraction - and Robert Hardman's books says the King volition nary longer beryllium picking up the bills.

He quotes a root arsenic saying: "The duke is nary longer a fiscal load connected the King."

Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story by Robert Hardman, volition beryllium published by Macmillan connected 7 November.