Prince Andrew has a\u00a0fully-staffed royal palace gifted to him in the Gulf – but he thinks it is too quiet and his ex-wife doesn’t like the heat<\/a>, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n The shamed royal and Sarah Ferguson are said to have a grand mansion available on demand\u00a0in Abu Dhabi,\u00a0the capital of the United Arab Emirates.<\/span><\/p>\n It was a gift to them from the UAE\u2019s ruling royal family – the\u00a0house of Nahyan, according to esteemed biographer and historian Andrew Lownie and other sources.<\/span><\/p>\n Prince William and his wife the Princess of Wales are said to be desperate to kick Andrew and Fergie out of their Windsor Great Lodge and hope the former couple will emigrate.<\/span><\/p>\n It came after yet another shocking twist in the royal-Epstein scandal when it emerged last night Andrew hasn’t paid rent for 22 years on his palatial 30-room home with 98 acres of land.<\/span><\/p>\n But despite the crumbling House of York having access to a\u00a0<\/span>palace in Abu Dhabi, fully staffed with servants and close to the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, Andrew and Fergie are not said to be keen to relocate.<\/span><\/p>\n Ms Ferguson, who can no longer use her title the Duchess of York, is said to struggle with the heat.<\/span><\/p>\n And Andrew reportedly considers the UAE too quiet and he prefers the busier social scene in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n Prince Andrew attends a military air display event on November 25, 2010 in Abu Dhabi with\u00a0Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Multiple sources have claimed Andrew has been gifted a palace by the ruling house of Nahyan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The mansion in Abu Dhabi (pictured) is said to be fully staffed with servants but there are claims it is too hot for Fergie and too quiet for Andrew<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Andrew should be\u00a0kicked out of his Windsor Royal Lodge and disappear because the British public are \u2018sick\u2019 of him and he is an embarrassment to his family and the UK<\/a>, Robert Jenrick has claimed.<\/p>\n The shadow justice secretary has said it is disgusting that taxpayers are subsiding him to live in a 30-room mansion with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson<\/a>\u00a0when he should be paying \u00a3200,000 a year.<\/p>\n ‘I don\u2019t see why the taxpayer frankly should continue to foot the bill.\u00a0 The public are sick of Prince Andrew’, he said.<\/p>\n And Andrew could become the first royal to be caught up in a criminal probe in more than 20 years. Scotland Yard has confirmed it is ‘actively’ probing claims he asked an officer to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, whose posthumous autobiography is out today.<\/p>\n Mr Jenrick said:\u00a0\u2018I don\u2019t think the taxpayer should in any way be footing the bill for him to live in luxury homes ever again. He shouldn\u2019t have any taxpayer subsidies going forward.<\/p>\n \u2018It\u2019s about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private and make his own way in life. He has disgraced himself, he has embarrassed the Royal Family<\/a> time and again.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘The King deserves great respect and admiration for the way he has handled this. He is trying to do his absolute best to ensure Prince Andrew goes off, leads a quiet life and doesn\u2019t embarrass himself, the royal family or our country ever again<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (pictured in 2019) are holed up in their grace-and-favour Royal Lodge amid increased scrutiny over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. A leaked lease suggests they may not have paid rent on their home for 22 years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Calls are growing for Prince Andrew to be kicked out of the Royal Lodge (pictured today), the lavish Windsor mansion he shares with his ex-wife<\/p>\n<\/div>\n An unredacted copy of his lease emerged last night.<\/p>\n It shows that while he paid \u00a31million to lease the property in 2003 and spent \u00a37.5million on refurbishments, he has paid only ‘one peppercorn (if demanded)’ of rent a year since taking on the mansion 22 years ago.<\/p>\n This is because Andrew is deemed to have paid the rent \u2013 which was in the region of \u00a3260,000 a year \u2013 up front through the work he has funded to bring the palatial property up to scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n It also means the Crown Estate will have to pay him around half a million pounds if he were to quit his mansion before the lease on it runs out in 2078.<\/p>\n A copy of the agreement was obtained by The Times newspaper following pressure from MPs and campaigners. And it will no doubt add to public outrage over Andrew’s perceived ‘perks’.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sources have stressed to the Daily Mail, however, that questions still remain over how the King’s brother can afford the vast 30-bedroom property, which comes with multi-million running costs.<\/p>\n The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Andrew is not believed to have received any significant inheritance from the Queen or Queen Mother<\/a>, raising fresh questions about how he can afford to stay in the property \u2013 particularly when he now receives no personal allowance from the King, or public funding.<\/p>\n Charles, 76, has desperately tried to persuade his younger brother to downsize and move out of the grade II-listed mansion in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n He believes many of Andrew’s problems \u2013 particularly those that saw him drawn to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and other shady characters \u2013 stem from chasing a lifestyle he simply cannot afford.<\/p>\n But Andrew, 65, has stubbornly insisted that he has a cast-iron lease on the house. 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