Another loss for Prince Andrew as King Charles looks at allowance
11/06/2024 11:42 AM
It’s been several years since Prince Andrew was forced to step away from royal duties and now King Charles is cutting his brother’s allowance.
In an updated version of the book, Charles III: New King. New Court, author Robert Hardman writes The King instructed the Keeper of the Privy Purse to remove his brother’s £1 million annual personal allowance.
Several reports in recent months have said Andrew is refusing a proposal to relocate from Royal Lodge in Windsor to a smaller property in the Windsor estate. Andrew holds a lease to the Lodge that he moved into back in 2003. Since he moved, he’s spent millions on repairs and renovations and reportedly paid £1 million to take over the property.
Hardman also elaborates on claims that Charles III is taking away funding for security around the property meaning Andrew would have to foot that bill. In the book, being serialised in the Daily Mail, it’s said that “The cost of the private security contract to guard the property, which sits outside that Windsor cordon, was running at what one insider called ‘a substantial seven-figure sum annually’. In August it was widely reported (and not disputed) that the King was no longer prepared to renew that contract beyond the autumn of 2024.“
As Royal Central previously reported, the contract for Andrew’s security team expired earlier this year. Since Andrew lost police protection in 2022, His Majesty had been paying for security at Andrew’s home.
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