It’s finally happened, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has moved into his ‘forever home’ – but by the sour look on his face you would think he was being frog-marched into exile. Since he was turfed out of his 30-room Royal Lodge mansion, on the Crown Estate at Windsor, in February, the five-bedroomed Marsh Farm on the King’s Sandringham Estate has been lined up as his new home.
Over the last couple of months the 66-year-old has stayed at the nearby Wood Farm cottage while the somewhat dreary Marsh Farm had a makeover and was renovated with new fixtures and fittings. One notable addition has been a large wooden security fence to stop passers-by using the paths and road near the property from gawping at the former Duke of York, as he mopes about his new pad.
Earlier this week Andrew moved into Marsh Farm, taking the 20-minute stroll between Wood Farm and his new cottage with only his dogs for company as he followed staff carrying bags.
But not only did Andrew have his head bowed – he looked like Maximilien Robespierre making his final walk to the guillotine.
It’s hard to see what he has to feel sorry about.
In February, on his 66th birthday, Andrew was arrested at Wood Farm on suspicion of misconduct in a public office for allegedly passing confidential UK information to Epstein when working as a trade envoy.
Andrew – whom MPs in Westminster branded a “rude, arrogant and entitled man” – strenuously denies any wrongdoing.
The Epstein Files have brought a series of shocking allegations against Andrew, such as inviting the convicted US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein to Buckingham Palace in September 2010, promising him “lots of privacy.”
Disturbing images contained in the bundle of three million documents show Andrew crouched over a mystery woman lying on her back.
Meanwhile emails from Epstein to the royal show him setting Andrew up for dinner with a 26-year-old “beautiful and trustworthy” Russian. I’m sure she was!
Worse emails have also emerged where Andrew tells Epstein his freedom in 2010 from his prison sentence for procuring a 14-year-old for prostitution was “really, really good news”.
Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2008, but only served 13 months before being released in July 2009, and ordered to then serve a year’s probation until August 2010.
So, in retrospect, Andrew should be elated he even has a roof over his head.
That miserable look on his face is self-pity and anger at his fall from grace – and he has no-one to blame for that except himself.
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