{"id":2409968,"date":"2026-05-10T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2409968"},"modified":"2026-05-10T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:40:16","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsors-bizarre-new-hobby-he-loves-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsors-bizarre-new-hobby-he-loves-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019s bizarre new hobby he loves | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> has found a new hobby to <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1939998\/prince-andrew-nerdy-hobby\" target=\"_blank\">occupy himself in exile<\/a>, a royal author has claimed. The former Duke of York has been banished into humiliation and moved from his former home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, to Marsh Farm in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Andrew\u2019s recent fall from grace came after disturbing details of his association with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein emerged after the US released millions of files about him earlier this year. Andrew was also stripped of all his royal titles and honours, following a dramatic decision by his own brother, the King, last year, in a bid to distance the Royal Family from the scandal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Royal author Andrew Lowrie said Andrew has \u201clost any sort of purpose in life\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He told the Palace Confidential podcast that Andrew is well into technology and has now apparently been playing video games to pass the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The author said: \u201cHe\u2019s always been a couch potato, always watching videos or films and now he just seems to like to play video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He added that Andrew is \u201cfascinated\u201d by simulation games like planes landing, which \u201cgoes back to his pilot training.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The author also revealed that Andrew is partial to Call of Duty, a first-person shooter he spends hours playing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Lowrie said: \u201cI think he&#8217;s someone who needs a discipline. I think the services were good for him. There was a focus there and and a discipline.\u201d<\/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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has found a new hobby to occupy himself in exile, a royal author has claimed. The former Duke of York has been banished into humiliation and moved from his former home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, to Marsh Farm in Norfolk. Andrew\u2019s recent fall from grace came after disturbing details of his association with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2409969,"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":[351160,471302,471303,471301,410040,403933,403835,407461,360516,22931,179514,22089],"class_list":["post-2409968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew","tag-andrew-call-of-duty","tag-andrew-games","tag-andrew-hobby","tag-andrew-latest","tag-andrew-mountbatten","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-andrew-news","tag-call-of-duty","tag-prince-andrew","tag-prince-andrew-news","tag-royal-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsors-bizarre-new-hobby-he-loves-Royal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409968","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=2409968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409970,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409968\/revisions\/2409970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}