King Charles and Prince Andrew secure breakthrough in crunch talks as disgraced duke stumps up £200k
King Charles has agreed to allow Prince Andrew to remain in the Royal Lodge after a breakthrough in their crunch talks.
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King Charles has agreed to allow Prince Andrew to remain in the Royal Lodge after a breakthrough in their crunch talks.
The Duke of York will be allowed to stay indefinitely at his 30-room royal mansion following the agreement.
Prince Andrew has given King Charles assurances that he will have the necessary funds to go ahead with much-needed repairs on the property.
The Duke of York has spent £200,000 on repairing the roof of the Royal Lodge which has been described as an "interim payment" in the agreement with the King, according to the Mirror.
The Duke of York will be allowed to stay indefinitely at his 30-room royal mansion following the agreement.
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The King and his brother met in August to thrash out the details of the deal according to royal sources.
The Royal Lodge needs urgent repairs and the monarch wanted assurances that Andrew could fund the necessary work before allowing him to remain at the property.
In July, it was reported that King Charles's bid to move Prince Andrew to Frogmore Cottage had been "shelved" as his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson recovered from surgery for breast cancer.
King Charles had been trying to move his brother out of the Royal Lodge with Meghan and Harry's former UK base mooted as a replacement home.
Sarah Ferguson lives with Prince Andrew in the Royal Lodge.
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Prince Andrew was reluctant to give up the 30-room royal residence for the smaller Frogmore Castle.
Sarah Ferguson, who lives with Prince Andrew in the Royal Lodge, recently underwent a mastectomy.
A Palace insider told The Mail that plans for the move have now been "quietly shelved".
In August 2021, the Duke of York was accused in a US civil case of sexually abusing Virginia Giuffre, on three occasions when she was 17-years-old.
Just before Andrew prepared to face his civil case in January 2022, the late Queen stripped him of his honorary military affiliations and patronages, saying he had to defend himself as a private citizen.
Giuffre and the duke reached an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed amount, including no admission of guilt on the claims against Prince Andrew, in February 2022.
Lady Victoria Hervey briefly dated Prince Andrew in 1999.
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Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, Prince Andrew's lease of the Royal Lodge was reviewed by King Charles III.
Lady Victoria Hervey, who briefly dated Andrew in 1999, told GB News the duke's treatment over the Royal Lodge was "incredibly insensitive".
She added: "I cannot understand how the institution could do this."