Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, won’t move to his new home on King Charles’s Sandringham estate until the new year, and will spend Christmas at his Royal Lodge home.
When Buckingham Palace initially revealed that King Charles would be stripping his younger brother of his royal titles, they said, “formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease [on Royal Lodge] and he will move to alternative private accommodation.” That move, it was understood, would take place “as soon as possible and practicable.”
The delay in move is reportedly twofold: One, that the move is proving to be more logistically challenging than anticipated and two, the fact that the royals gather for Christmas at Sandringham. A source told The Sun, “He has a large house where he has lived for a long time and he will be moving into a more modest house so, logically, it won’t happen this side of Christmas.”
And, having Andrew living at Sandringham but not invited to Christmas, would be embarrassing, according to royal sources. The BBC previously reported that “according to royal sources, a delay in Andrew moving until the new year would avoid the embarrassment of him being in Sandringham at Christmas—where the Royal Family traditionally gathers for the festive season.”
On the delayed move, the Daily Mail reported that the royals will “breathe a sigh of relief at the news, with sources admitting that the ex-prince’s presence on the King’s private Norfolk estate during the festive season, when most of the senior royals are in residence, would have been ‘suboptimal.’”
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