{"id":2124403,"date":"2025-10-30T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2124403"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:11:38","slug":"did-william-threaten-his-cousins-over-royal-lodge-sources-cast-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/did-william-threaten-his-cousins-over-royal-lodge-sources-cast-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Did William threaten his cousins over Royal Lodge? Sources cast doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt font-semibold\">\n<p>Fresh royal drama swirls around Prince Andrew\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-sm\" x-data=\"{&#10;        posts: [],&#10;        loadPosts() {&#10;            try {&#10;                const relatedPostData = JSON.parse(document.getElementById('related-post-data').textContent);&#10;                if (!relatedPostData.length) return;&#10;                let postsToShow = relatedPostData.slice(0);&#10;                                postsToShow = postsToShow.slice(0, 2);&#10;                                this.posts = postsToShow;&#10;            } catch (error) {&#10;                console.error('Error loading related posts:', error);&#10;            }&#10;        }&#10;&#9;}\" x-init=\"loadPosts()\">\n<div x-show=\"posts.length &gt; 0\" class=\"not-is-style-prose flex flex-col gap-sm pl-sm border-l border-l-body-accent my-sm\">\n<h2 class=\"text-base\">Others are reading now<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t<template x-for=\"(post, index) in posts\" :key=\"index\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"related-post\" class=\"not-prose sm:gap-sm group flex w-full items-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" :href=\"https:\/\/www.dagens.com\/royal\/post.link\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"m-0 flex flex-1 flex-col text-base\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-body-text group-hover:text-body-accent font-normal\" :href=\"https:\/\/www.dagens.com\/royal\/post.link\" x-html=\"post.title\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/template>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The British royal family is once again facing public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>This time it is over reports that Prince William allegedly pressured his cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, to help remove their father, Prince Andrew, from Royal Lodge, the lavish Windsor estate where he has lived since 2008 with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>The claims, made by journalist Emily Maitlis on her podcast <em>The News Agents<\/em>, suggest that William told his cousins their royal titles could be at risk if Andrew refused to vacate the property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need your father to move out of Royal Lodge, or we\u2019ll start looking at your own titles,\u201d Maitlis said William allegedly told the princesses, according to <em>People<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report has not been independently verified, and <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/prince-william-ultimatum-princess-beatrice-princess-eugenie-over-titles-11838320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a><\/em> also cites royal sources who deny that any such meeting ever took place.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Royal pressure or just speculation?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-sm\" x-data=\"{&#10; 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Others are reading now The British royal family is once again facing public scrutiny. This time it is over reports that Prince William allegedly pressured his cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, to help remove their father, Prince Andrew, from Royal Lodge, the lavish Windsor estate where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2124404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Did-William-threaten-his-cousins-over-Royal-Lodge-Sources-cast.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124405,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124403\/revisions\/2124405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}