King Carlos III has tried everything to get his brother Andrés out of his life: remove his protection, remove him from institutional life, delete money itemsevict him from his current residence… But even then he cannot get rid of that pimple that cannot be removed. The Duke of York not only resistsbut rather he becomes strong in the palace while he has the head of the Crown on his nerves.
The situation is remarkably reminiscent of certain memorable moments from the ‘Pink Panther’ film series. Charles III could well be that unfortunate Commissioner Dreyfus whose eye twitched, in a nervous tic impossible to suppress, just by hearing the name of Inspector Clouseau. The latter would be, of course, Prince Andrew. What is new is that the current king, well known for his zeal with royal money, tries to impose its criteria of managing the Windsor estatebut his brother clings tooth and nail to the last memory of glory he has left, which is his current residence.
When King Charles III acceded to the throne after the death of the Queen Mother, he undoubtedly saw his great opportunity to make one of his great dreams come true after so many emotional and reputational grievances suffered. It is well known that Andrés was always Isabel II’s favoritewho defended him staunchly even in the sordid ‘Epstein case’, to the enormous displeasure of the older brother. The mother died, Charles III acceded to the throne and your first pressure measurement was to expel him from any institutional work. Then came the removal of protection and then the elimination of the financial and lifetime allocation of more than one million euros per year.
Where did you get the money from?
This was the core part of his strategy: to suffocate his brother financially so that once and for all he would leave for a more modest place. But Andrés has become strong and Not even with the sound of bagpipes at dawn can you leave Royal Lodge. He has counterattacked with a financial maneuver with which he has convinced the palace’s accounting authorities that has sufficient funds to continue living in his beloved official residence with 30 rooms and 30 million euros. And Carlos III’s eye tremor has returned.
‘The Times’ has been able to confirm that Prince Andrew, in his umpteenth survival exercise, has managed to raise funds to stay at Royal Lodge, a financing approved by the guardian of the private treasury himselfMichael Stevens, and with which he would have convinced the palace authorities that he has sufficient funds to stay there. What no one can figure out is how the hell he got the money.
Living expenses and Sarah Ferguson
It is not only about facing a lease and maintenance of millions of pounds, but also by contract with the sovereign’s public assets. is required to paint, renew and repair every five years. Something he has never done, judging by the obvious deterioration of that façade that makes Carlos III suffer so much.
The monarch’s dream is for Andrés to disappear from his sight and change the ostentatious mansion for a more modest one, Frogmore Cottage, the old house that the mother gave to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after their wedding and that they remodeled and paid for after their departure. California. But Andrés doesn’t even want to hear about it and wants to stay in his old 30-room mansion where he also lives, to improve the story, Sarah Ferguson herselffrom whom he divorced in 1996 after being separated for four years.
Stripped of reputation, honor and royal power, the decaying mansion of Royal Lodge is all he has left, the only memory of what once was. The place where his mother always wanted him to live, the trench in which he has grown strong and the place that symbolizes that grain that Charles III cannot eliminate.
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