It’s been less than two weeks since King Charles’ coronation and he’s already trying to kick people off his land.
The latest royal scandal comes compliments of Charle’s troublesome younger brother, Prince Andrew.
The king is reportedly trying to get Andrew to vacate Royal House, the lavish 30-room mansion the disgraced prince has lived in for two decades with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, a.k.a. Fergie.
While not an overly loving bunch by nature, the brotherly vibe between the two has been basically non-existent ever since their late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped Andrew of his royal and military honors following that sexual assault case he settled in New York last year.
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Although he denied committing any crime, Andrew reportedly paid $16 million to Virginia Roberts Giuffre after she claimed he sexually abused her on on multiple occasions when she was a teenager. Rather than stand trial, the Duke of York threw money at the situation to make it go away.
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Somewhere Princess Diana is having a chuckle over the sad state of the family she tried to warn everyone about.
Now, Charles is allegedly trying to push Andrew off of the massive family property so Prince William and Kate Middleton can move in since Royal House is much larger than their current residence, Adelaide Cottage, and they have three young kids to raise.
But Andrew is not going out without a fight.
Sources now claim he’s “refusing to budge” from the estate despite fears Charles may get even nastier now that he and his second wife managed to finally get their bejeweled crowns affixed to their heads.
“He’s concerned that now the coronation is over, the knives are out,” a friend of Andrew said, according to RadarOnline. “He’s worried that the royals might even turn off the utilities to get him out of there.”
But Andrew’s problems go beyond having a roof over his head. He barely has any cash these days after his royal allowance of £250,000 ($312,000) was slashed in 2019 upon stepping down from being a working royal.
Contrary to popular opinion, however, Charles is not completely heartless and isn’t looking to leave Andrew out on the street. In return for moving promptly out of Royal House, he will reportedly allow Andrew to shack up at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s former home, the much smaller Frogmore Cottage.
The Duke and Duchess of Essex famously exited the UK residence after fleeing England for Canada and then California in 2020.
Unfortunately, Andy isn’t interested in downsizing his official residence and is reportedly prepared to add more fuel to the family feud by writing a nasty tell-all should his mean big brother not allow him to stay put. Nobody does blackmail like white folks!
“What Andrew can reveal about certain members of his family would blow the lid off,” a source told RadarOnline. “Andrew has access to information that could prove embarrassing to Charles and, indeed, the whole family.”
Despite their bad blood and not having any royal duties, Andrew recently raised eyebrows by attending Chuck’s coronation decked out in traditional Garter robes. Not exactly the best way to warm up to the new king.
If all fails, Andrew could always try and make nice with Harry and Meghan to see if they’d let him crash in one the rooms of their $15 million Santa Barbara estate. It’s much warmer there, at least temperature-wise.
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I think we can all agree that when it comes to public figures you just really want to root for, Charles is fairly low on the list.
Rambeaux
Can’t King Chuck just have his head lopped off?
That’s what Henry in “The Tudors” would have done.
GlobeTrotter
That’s way too medieval. Disagreeable royals get dispatched nowadays in unfortunate car accidents. Clean and efficient, and no fingerprints leading back to The Firm.
Matthewnow
White trash with a royal title.
JJinAus
He earns £12 million from his Duchy, Boo hoo.
Fahd
Half-truths written in a smarmy, 1950s gossipy tone. Queerty must be one of the few places left in the internet where one can self-publish this sort of drivel. (and this relates to the homosexual agenda, how?)
Let’s see, Andrew lives alone (sometimes Fergie stays there) in a 40 room mansion, Royal Lodge, and he is a disgraced, non-working member of the royal family. William, Charles’ son, the heir to the throne, and working member of the royal family has a young family of five and lives in a 4 bedroom house on the same estate. Now that the trash has been thrown out of Frogmore, that place is available. Andrew is retired, whether he likes it or not, and it would really just be good form of him if he freed up Royal Lodge for William and his family, but Andrew always has been a jerk. Would you proceed differently if you were Charles?
What has King Charles ever done to you, Johnny? Why so much snark? You must know that lapdog to the Sussexes is already taken.
still_onthemark
Yes, Queerty is obsessed with the royal family but they never explain what the supposed gay angle is, if any – except Diana was nice to AIDS patients 35 years ago? Is that the angle? That’s not much of a hook to support what’s becoming an extreme obsession.
Charles is trying to evict Andrew from the lodge, so how does that “ensnare” him in Andrew’s scandal?
Queerty keeps saying we’re supposed to be on the side of Meghan and her “adorable” kids. I’ve never seen a photo of the kids, even in Queerty (the font of all royal info), so I don’t know how adorable they might be. For all I know they’re like the ugly baby on Seinfeld.
abfab
”But JERRY! ELAINE! YOU HAVE TO SEE THE BABY” *
*Support the Writers Strike!
still_onthemark
@abfab: “If we wait long enough, it won’t be a baby anymore and we won’t have to see it.”
abfab
”Yeah, he really is breathtaking”.
rand503
At least we are not talkinga bout Harry. Gay men go bonkers over Harry! I know some guys who think he is the hawtest, and would love to have sex with him, so they defend him no matter what. Then you have another batch of gay men who think that the ONLY reason Meghan gets such shade is because she is black. IOW, we are all racists.
So no, there is no rational debate.
abfab
abfab
Commenters here who find the family distasteful are the ones who spend the most ink commenting on them.
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rocmond
Why is it when non-white folks talk about white folks, it’s OK to make derogatory generalizations, but when white folks make generalization about non-white folks, that’s racism? The article was fine without it.
#hypocracy #racism
RiBrad
Exactly, the rule can’t be that derogatory generalisations about white people are funny but about any other group are racist/homophobic/ableist etc. That is a surefire way to entrench tribalism which only makes things worse for all of us.
Invader7
Exactly. Or non white people call each other BIGOTED, RACIST names and it’s “calling someone out”. White people do the same thing and it’s bigoted or racist? Double standards and hypocrisy !!
bluboy80
I think you mean that Harry and Meghan are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, not Essex.