{"id":2235766,"date":"2026-01-15T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2235766"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:25","slug":"removals-van-arrives-at-royal-lodge-as-disgraced-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prepares-to-leave-his-windsor-home-for-sandringham-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/removals-van-arrives-at-royal-lodge-as-disgraced-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prepares-to-leave-his-windsor-home-for-sandringham-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Removals van arrives at Royal Lodge as disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor prepares to leave his Windsor home ‘for Sandringham farm’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A removals van arrived at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Royal Lodge home this morning as the disgraced ex-prince prepares to leave the Windsor mansion.<\/p>\n

The former Duke of York is expected to move into a temporary property on the King’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk at some point over the coming fortnight.<\/p>\n

Andrew is set to stay at that property until Easter<\/a>, when renovation works on Marsh Farm – anticipated to be his new home on the estate – are scheduled to be finished.<\/p>\n

Marsh Farm is getting a revamp with workers installing Sky TV and a new security fence while Andrew leaves Royal Lodge before his 66th birthday next month.<\/p>\n

Sky engineers were spotted up ladders this week outside the property in Wolferton, just two miles away from Charles’s Sandringham home. A six-foot wooden privacy fence has also sprung up, replacing the wire mesh previously on the perimeter.<\/p>\n

Insiders have said Marsh Farm needed a lot of work to ‘make it habitable’. Workers have also been spotted using a JCB digger and installing security lights on the walls.<\/p>\n

A local security firm’s van was parked on the driveway, and team of at least six people have been toiling through the cold and the rain this week.<\/p>\n

Andrew is reportedly moving in to the farmhouse after vacating Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n

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A removal van arrives at Royal Lodge in Windsor this morning before Andrew moves out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The van is driven towards Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Royal Lodge home this morning <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The van arrives at Royal Lodge in Windsor today as the disgraced ex-prince prepares to leave<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor rides during heavy rain on the Windsor estate on Tuesday\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He will first move into a temporary property on the King’s Norfolk estate as early as the end of this month.<\/p>\n

Andrew is set to stay there until Easter, when the work on Marsh Farm is scheduled to be finished.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the farmhouse and the surrounding outhouses’ previous tenant died some time ago.<\/p>\n

The Sandringham no-fly zone was extended at the end of last year to include the property and a drone ban was extended last autumn.<\/p>\n

The farm lies in the secluded village of Wolferton, which has a church and a social club, but no pubs or village shops.<\/p>\n

It is also near the King’s Wood Farm estate, where Prince Philip lived after his retirement.<\/p>\n

Andrew reportedly wanted to live at Wood Farm on Sandringham, which is a five-bedroom cottage near the stables and pheasant shooting grounds, but there were concerns that would leave him ‘too close’ to the rest of the family.<\/p>\n

On Saturday the Daily Mail revealed how Royal Lodge was not once inspected by officials in the 22 years he lived there rent-free<\/a> despite his lease having strict conditions.<\/p>\n

When the lease for the 30-room home was signed in 2003, it included unique terms which included no rent but a costly upfront refurbishment and upkeep schedule.<\/p>\n

The disgraced royal paid \u00a38million to repair the then-dilapidated property, and promised to allow inspectors in at ‘all reasonable times’ to make sure he looked after it.<\/p>\n

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A Sky engineer up a ladder against the wall of Marsh Farm where Andrew is expected to move<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A team of at least six have been working on the Marsh Farm property in Norfolk this week<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A solid six-foot high wooden fence has sprung up around parts of the Marsh Farm perimeter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Workers are getting Marsh Farm ready for Andrew’s expected arrival around Easter time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A JCB digger and a van from a local security firm parked on the driveway at Marsh Farm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marsh Farm is a much smaller property than Andrew is used to at Royal Lodge in Windsor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A workman measures up for the installation of new security lights on one of the red brick walls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The panelling replaces flimsy wire that stood before and allowed a good view from the road<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marsh Farm is two miles west of\u00a0the monarch’s Sandringham House in Norfolk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In return, his estate landlord, the independent company which manages Crown properties for the benefit of the taxpayer, allowed him to pay no rent for the duration of the 75-year lease.<\/p>\n

But not one Crown Estate official carried out an inspection of Royal Lodge in the whole time Andrew lived there \u2013 raising concerns of a ‘sweetheart deal’ at taxpayers’ expense.<\/p>\n

Andrew has still been living there with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, while work is completed ahead of their move.<\/p>\n

The King’s brother was finally banished from the Royal Family last year.<\/p>\n

Andrew had been embroiled in controversy for years over his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and allegations, which he denies, that he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre when she was a teenager and had been trafficked by Epstein.<\/p>\n

Ms Giuffre’s death by suicide in April, her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl and the release of documents and emails relating to Epstein intensified the focus on the late Queen’s second son.<\/p>\n

It emerged he emailed Epstein telling him ‘we are in this together’ in 2011, three months after he claimed he had broken off all contact with the sex offender.<\/p>\n

Andrew stepped away from his public role in 2019 and later paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre, whom Andrew claimed never to have met despite being pictured with his arm around her at now-convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s home in London.<\/p>\n

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Royal Lodge, the lavish Windsor mansion Andrew still shares with his ex-wife Sarah (file image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrew has lived at the 30-bedroom property Royal Lodge in Windsor since 2003 (file image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The entrance to Royal Lodge and the property can be seen in Windsor’s Great Park (file image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2022, his mother Queen Elizabeth II ordered him to stop using his HRH style and removed his honorary military roles.<\/p>\n

Andrew agreed to no longer use his Duke of York title last October, but the King went a step further a fortnight later and dramatically stripped him of both his right to be a prince and his dukedom, making Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor a commoner for the first time.<\/p>\n

Just before Christmas, newly-surfaced emails from the Epstein files revealed one sent from Balmoral and signed ‘A’ asking Maxwell ‘have you found me some new inappropriate friends?’.<\/p>\n

Andrew has faced calls from a powerful US congressional committee to give evidence about Epstein, who died by suicide in jail in 2019.<\/p>\n

The loss of Andrew’s titles meant his ex-wife reverted back to her maiden name of Sarah Ferguson, with the former duchess also criticised for writing to Epstein after his conviction calling him a ‘supreme friend’, despite publicly disowning him in the media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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