How Prince Andrew can afford to stay at Royal Lodge despite bid by Charles to push him out revealed
PRINCE Andrew is personally paying for a cut-price security deal to remain in his royal home — despite a bid by the King to push him out.
The disgraced Duke of York, 64, lost his annual £3million-a-year hand-out from brother Charles which funded guards at Windsor’s Royal Lodge.
The Sun on Sunday revealed the King axed the cash for Andrew, who does not work but has links to oligarchs.
And we can now reveal he has negotiated a cheaper protection deal at his leased home which he refuses to leave.
His plan is believed to be bankrolled by Middle East money.
Daughters Beatrice and Eugenie have addressed conferences in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
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A source said: “He has his security but at a cheaper rate and he is managing to finance it himself.
"He has dug his heels in and is refusing to move so found a way to finance his security.
“How sustainable in the long term, then who knows how long he can do it for”
Author Andrew Lownie, who is penning a shock book on the prince, said: “Prince Andrew is likely to have many forms of income.”
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In 2007, he sold Sunninghill Park home in Berkshire to Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev for £15million - which was £3million over the asking price.
Andy’s dead paedo pal Jeffrey Epstein paid off a £15,000 loan owed by Sarah Ferguson, who still lives with the Duke despite divorcing in 1996.
It is believed he carved out a string of business links in Asia and the Middle East when he worked as a UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for 10 years until 2011.
While working for the government he was handed use of a £1million home in Abu Dhabi by their Royal Family.
In November 2022, The Sun on Sunday revealed the scandal-hit prince flew on a billionaire Swiss contact’s jet to Bahrain to be pampered in five-star, all-expenses-paid luxury by his long-standing friends in the kingdom’s Royal Family.
Bloomberg News reported that Andrew took out a £1.5 million personal loan with the Luxembourg-based private bank Banque Havilland in December 2017.
It was paid off 11 days later by companies connected to David Rowland, a multimillionaire Conservative donor and financier.
Andrew’s team was asked for comment.
