The king of Kingdom United, Carlos III, will eliminate the private service of security of the prince Andrew Starting next month Novemberthe British tabloid ‘The Sun’ reported on Sunday.
The own monarch financed the equipment of security private of the Duke of York since he lost public police protection in 2022, after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of all military titles and royal patronages following his involvement in a sex scandal.
Now, according to the newspaper, members of the equipment of security were informed that their services will not be required from now on. November.
“Everyone is speculating whether this means the Duke will have to leave Royal Lodge -a residence near Windsor Palace-, because what other reason would there be to remove its security?,” a palace source told ‘The Sun’, adding that “it is no secret” that Carlos III wants him out.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Andrew had rejected an offer to move from Royal Lodge to the nearby Frogmore Cottage and the Duke of York was said to have signed a 75-year lease on the mansion in 2003.
In January, reports suggested that Andrew would have to finance the multi-million dollar costs himself security of the Royal Lodge if he wanted to stay in the 30-room mansion.
The scandals continue
Furthermore, on the other hand, the pressure on Andrew increases after the disclosure of hundreds of pages of court documents related to the scandal of the American tycoon Jeffrey Epstein.
Specifically, some pages in which the former butler of EpsteinJuan Alessi, claimed that the Duke of York received daily massages when he spent “weeks” at the financial magnate’s house in Florida and that, both Andrew like his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, were friends of Epstein and now-convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Previous allegations that Andrew sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre three times when she was 17 also resurfaced in court documents; although the prince denied the accusations and in 2022 paid her a million-dollar sum to settle a civil case out of court, claiming he had never met her.
The tabloid revealed that both Carlos III as Andrew are this weekend at the Palace of Balmoralin Scotland.
