Former British Prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has moved out of Royal Lodge in Windsor following months of intense legal and familial pressure.
The 65-year-old former prince, who was stripped of his HRH title and military honors last year, reportedly vacated the 30-room Windsor mansion under the cover of darkness on Monday night.
It was gathered that Andrew moved out of the Royal Lodge as a direct consequence of King Charles III’s “intensified” efforts to distance the royal family from the ongoing fallout of his brother’s association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources with the royal family revealed that Andrew’s departure from the Royal Lodge was unceremonious.
He was said to have been last seen in Windsor on Monday, riding on horseback close to his previous home. He was also photographed driving away from Windsor Castle, waving at passersby.
Andrew, also formerly known as the Duke of York, is expected to return to Windsor over the next few weeks to collect the remainder of his belongings but his permanent base is now officially in Norfolk.
In October 2025, Andrew was ordered to leave the sprawling 30-room Royal Lodge in the heart of the Crown’s Windsor Estate, just outside of London, after his brother King Charles III cast him out of the monarchy over the swirling Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
The move was expected to occur after the holiday season, but it comes amid renewed pressure on Andrew after he appeared again in a newly released trove of U. S Justice Department documents related to the investigation into the deceased convicted sex offender.
Royal sources told the press that Andrew will be given a house on the King’s private estate in Sandringham and will also receive an income from Charles. It was also reported that he is now staying in a temporary property at Sandringham, while his permanent residence undergoes renovations.
Pan-Atlantic Kompass reports that Andrew continues to be dogged by his links to Epstein.
The police are now officially investigating allegations that a woman was sent to the UK by Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew.
The encounter allegedly occurred at the former prince’s residence, Royal Lodge, in 2010. The woman, who is not British, was in her 20s at the time.
Her lawyer, Brad Edwards, whose U.S law firm has been representing Epstein victims since 2008, said that after spending the night with Mountbatten-Windsor, the woman says she was given tea and a tour of Buckingham Palace.
Recall also that Andrew emerged in the headlines for the wrong reasons in 2014, when late Virginia Giuffre became the first woman to publicly accuse Mountbatten-Windsor of similar encounters.
She alleged that as a 17-year-old she was trafficked by Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and forced to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor – a claim he continues to deny.
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit in the US against him in 2021, settling the case in February 2022 for an estimated £12m. She took her own life last year.
