Will King Charles and Prince Andrew resolve their Balmoral housing dispute?
On Monday, King Charles III And Queen Camilla went to Balmoral Castle in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland and, as is tradition, invited extended family members to join them on meadow picnics, hikes and grouse hunts. According to Daily mail‘S Richard Eden, Prince Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson were the first guests to join the king and queen, but they had a sensitive topic of conversation to raise: questions surrounding Royal Lodge, the 31-room mansion in Windsor Great Park where they have lived together since 2003.
Starting in 2023, report rise that the king wanted to evict his ex-wives and current housemates from the house with the apparent aim of moving them to somewhere smaller. Although Andrew and Sarah live in the house under a 75-year lease they signed for £1 million after the death of the Queen Mother in 2002, the former resident of the house, the house is owned and managed by the Crown Estate, powerful to revoke those leases. On August 17, Sun It was reported that the 10-man security team protecting Andrew and the house had been fired on the king’s orders, with one palace insider speculating that this was an attempt to increase pressure on Andrew to leave the property.
Buckingham Palace has not commented on the status of Royal Lodge, but in May 2023, Ferguson responded cryptically when asked about rumours of a dispute. “Don’t always believe everything you read,” she told ¡HOLA! TV. “I don’t know. I live one day at a time.”
For decades, the Windsor family has used the trip to Balmoral as an opportunity for family reunions and Prince Harry wrote about his memories with the Queen during the August months at the castle in his memoirs, Preventive. This year, the king and queen made a big change to tradition, arriving two weeks later than usual because the inside of the castle was open. for the first time in historyAbout 1,500 visitors took the opportunity to tour inside. neo-gothic castlepurchased by Prince Albert and Queen Victoria in 1852.
According to Sunday Express, Charles and Camilla began their time in Scotland with a few private days at Birkhall, a smaller estate where they spent the 2020 pandemic lockdown. The couple then reported looking forward to a visit from Prince William, Princess Catherine, and their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, And Prince Louis.
