Andrew moves out of 30-room royal mansion to ‘modest’ five-bed home

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor moved out of the Royal Lodge, a grand royal residence on the Windsor estate, on Monday night.

The disgraced former duke now lives on a property on the slightly smaller Sandringham Estate, a royal compound that King Charles personally owns.

The former Duke of York will call the Marsh Farm his permanent home and will pay the cost, according to the BBC.

Mountbatten-Windsor will briefly return to Windsor to collect the remaining of his belongings.

Royal sources told the broadcaster that Andrew remains a member of the royal family and ‘there is a duty of care owed to him’.

In October, the ex-prince was stripped of his royal titles and ordered to vacate the Royal Lodge.

Mountbatten-Windsor has lived in the 30-room Georgian mansion, which sits on 98 acres of land west of London, since 2003.

Marsh Farm has a kitchen, two reception rooms, and various outbuildings and stables. Sarah Ferguson will not be joining her ex-husband.

The move comes after new disclosures showed the extent of his closeness with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.

Among the three million files released on Friday by the US Department of Justice was a 2010 email exchange between ‘A’ and Epstein.

The businessman asks: ‘What time would you like me and [redacted]?

‘We will also need/have private time.’

In a response, an email signed off by ‘A’ suggested: ‘Alternatively, we should have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy.’

Photographs also appear to show Mountbatten-Windsor in compromising positions, including kneeling over a woman lying on the ground.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before a congressional committee over his dealings with Epstein.

He said: ‘Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that.’

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