{"id":2115852,"date":"2025-10-26T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115852"},"modified":"2025-10-26T02:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:32:13","slug":"prince-andrews-life-after-demotion-is-full-of-strange-hobbies-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-andrews-life-after-demotion-is-full-of-strange-hobbies-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew\u2019s Life After Demotion Is Full of \u201cStrange Hobbies\u201d at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"0c5bedce-7e99-4fa6-b7e8-c97ce2411613\">As new allegations about <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/prince-andrew-title-removal-was-inevitable-the-moment-that-forced-king-charles-to-take-action\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/prince-andrew-title-removal-was-inevitable-the-moment-that-forced-king-charles-to-take-action\/\">Prince Andrew&#8217;s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> have recently emerged and incited a new round of backlash against him, the disgraced royal has receded from both only royal work, but from spending time in public in general.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/shamed-prince-andrews-reduced-life-36122311\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/shamed-prince-andrews-reduced-life-36122311\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>The Mirror<\/em><\/a>, Andrew has &#8220;holed himself up at his Royal Lodge home&#8221; since the newest revelations about his connections to Epstein began to be made public, including allegations detailed by his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, in her posthumous memoir, <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FNobodys-Girl-Surviving-Fighting-Justice%2Fdp%2F0593493125%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dmarieclaireus-us-1154184253682086032-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nobodys-Girl-Surviving-Fighting-Justice\/dp\/0593493125\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FNobodys-Girl-Surviving-Fighting-Justice%2Fdp%2F0593493125%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\"><em>Nobody&#8217;s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice<\/em><\/a>, which was released this week.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"0c5bedce-7e99-4fa6-b7e8-c97ce2411613-2\"><a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/prince-andrew-giving-up-duke-of-york-title\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/prince-andrew-giving-up-duke-of-york-title\/\">Andrew, who announced last week that he would voluntarily relinquish his royal titles<\/a> amid of the ongoing scandal, has &#8221; shut himself off from the outside world inside his sprawling Windsor estate,&#8221; according to the <em>Mirror&#8217;<\/em>s report. There&#8217;s plenty of room for Andrew and his ex-wife <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sarah-ferguson\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sarah-ferguson\/\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, who have continued to live together in the 30-room mansion even after divorcing in 1996. In fact, the <em>Mirror<\/em> notes that the estate is so large, the exes each essentially have separate wings of the enormous home to themselves.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As for what Andrew does to pass the time in his half the Windsor mansion, the outlet says his days have &#8220;seemingly revolved around video games and watching TV&#8221; since he began spending most of his time at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe loves games like <em>Call of Duty<\/em>, war games with helicopters. He certainly doesn\u2019t play <em>FIFA<\/em>, he\u2019s got no interest in football,&#8221; a source told <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/royal\/37087218\/prince-andrew-lonely-royal-lodge-playing-call-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/royal\/37087218\/prince-andrew-lonely-royal-lodge-playing-call-duty\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a> about Andrew&#8217;s home-bound hobbies, adding that the royal &#8220;really enjoys war films and watching golf on TV.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoyalBiographer\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoyalBiographer\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Royal biographer Ingrid Seward<\/a> told the outlet that a friend who had recently visiting Andrew and Ferguson at their home reported to her that Andrew was engaged in screen time during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prince was in a huge sitting room and Andrew was just lying there on a massive sofa watching TV on the biggest screen my friend had ever seen,&#8221; Seward shared. &#8220;It seemed to take up the whole of a wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-NAsnHDLnVhUAYMvNxXiswR\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-NAsnHDLnVhUAYMvNxXiswR slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get exclusive access to fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not all of Andrew&#8217;s newfound hobbies involve television and video games, however. In a piece for the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, royal correspondent Richard Kay wrote that the former <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\">Duke of York<\/a>, who is himself a decorated veteran of the Royal Navy, where he flew as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands War, has also reportedly taken up plane-spotting, a hobby that allows him &#8220;to watch flights landing and taking off at airports all over the globe,&#8221; according to Kay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a visitor to Royal Lodge, the prince has become obsessed by the app beloved of plane-spotter nerds,&#8221; Kay wrote of the military veteran, whose Falklands War flights included dangerous decoy missions &#8220;to draw Argentine missiles away from the ships of the British task force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s self-imposed exile in Windsor didn&#8217;t begin with the most recent round of backlash against him.<\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Mirror<\/em> reports, the increasingly-infamous royal has rarely been spotted out of his home for a few years now, often leaving only for drives in his car and to go on the twice-weekly horse rides that have accounted for most of his leisure time (at least outside of his house) since his late mother, Queen Elizabeth passed away in 2022. Before <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/queen-elizabeth-hard-humiliate-prince-andrew-titles\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/queen-elizabeth-hard-humiliate-prince-andrew-titles\/\">the Queen&#8217;s death, Andrew was known to visit her frequently<\/a> at <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/windsor-castle\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/windsor-castle\/\">Windsor Castle<\/a> for tea.<\/p>\n<p>These days, <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theroyalist.substack.com\/p\/prince-andrew-loves-ironically-call\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/theroyalist.substack.com\/p\/prince-andrew-loves-ironically-call\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Seward says<\/a>, Andrew doesn&#8217;t have much on his calendar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His life is very empty, he\u2019s very lonely and I think he\u2019s probably extremely bored,&#8221; Seward explained of Andrew&#8217;s time spent at home in Windsor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.marieclaire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As new allegations about Prince Andrew&#8217;s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have recently emerged and incited a new round of backlash against him, the disgraced royal has receded from both only royal work, but from spending time in public in general. 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