It was a tactless sight that boiled the already simmering public into a rage as the world gasped in disbelief at the latest shocking revelations from the Epstein Files. And it became the last straw for King Charles and an angry Prince William who decided “enough was enough” and ordered Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to finally quit his 31-room Royal Lodge mansion in Windsor.
Now – as Andrew is holed up at Wood Farm in Sandringham after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in a public office – the one thing he desperately wants to do, he no longer can. Every day in the lead up to his sudden, shock departure from Royal Lodge in early February saw a ‘drip, drip’ of Epstein Files revelations.
One day it was the bizarre photo of the ex-prince on all fours crouched over a woman lying on her back – the next it was the release of a creepy 2010 email where he told Epstein he wished he was “a pet in your family!”
Meanwhile, each day passers-by at his Windsor pile were not greeted by the sight of a contrite royal regretting his past association with the dead US paedophile financier, but by Andrew laughing and joking on the back of a horse.
Only this week Westminster MPs in open revolt at the disgraced former Duke of York, 66, branded him a “rude, arrogant and entitled man” as they debated the release of secret government papers.
Does anything better say “entitled” than the sight of a pompous man or woman on horseback?
But those days of untroubled trotting have gone the way of the dodo after royal aides reportedly slapped him with a riding ban.
Now Andrew is effectively housebound with just his dogs for company – including two of his late mother Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis.
Instead he has been spotted just once since his exile to Sandringham … when a photographer took THAT startling image of the wide-eyed royal in the back of a car last Thursday after 11 hours of police questioning.
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A source explained: “Since his arrest last week he has been ordered not to go horse riding. It’s considered a bad look.
“They don’t think he should be seen grinning and smiling on his horse like he was in Windsor. But it was one of the few things he actually enjoyed doing so what on earth is he going to do with his time?”
It follows the voluntary surrender of his gun licence to the police last year, ending another of his hobbies. I won’t expand but thank god for that.
Andrew could even not enjoy his 66th birthday last week as that was on the exact day police turned up at Wood Farm and arrested him. He denies any wrongdoing, as he has all along in all his dealings with Epstein.
The only thing he has to look forward to on the horizon is the occasional Waitrose delivery and his upcoming Easter move into nearby Marsh Farm – set to be his permanent Sandringham abode once it’s been renovated.
Andrew should consider himself lucky King Charles has even granted a roof over his head – and didn’t simply tell him to gallop off into the sunset.
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