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By India McTaggart
October 27, 2025 — 2.45pm
Prince Andrew has reportedly agreed to move out of the Royal Lodge.
The prince will leave the 30-room Windsor property if he is allowed to live at Frogmore Cottage, which used to be home to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, according to The Sun.
Prince Andrew has lived at Royal Lodge since 2003. His ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, moved in in 2003.
Meanwhile, Sarah Ferguson wants to move to nearby Adelaide Cottage after the Prince and Princess of Wales leave next month.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are keen to move into their new home at Forest Lodge before Bonfire Night, it is understood.
The heir to the throne wants to settle his family into the eight-bedroom home, just over 1 ½ kilometres from Prince Andrew’s mansion in Windsor Great Park, within two weeks.
A source told The Daily Mail: “William wants him [Andrew] gone before they start to move in next week.
“It’s not about what Andrew doesn’t want to do any more. It’s about what he’s going to be told to do.”
Prince Andrew is not keen to be exiled to Norfolk or Scotland and wants to remain in London or Windsor, close to his daughters.Credit: AP
Pressure has intensified for the disgraced Prince Andrew to give up Royal Lodge after it emerged last week that he has only paid “peppercorn” rent on the 30-room property for the last 20 years.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have been living in Adelaide Cottage, some three miles from Forest Lodge, since August 2022.
It was revealed this summer that the Waleses and their three children, Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, seven, hope that the Grade II-listed Forest Lodge will be their “forever home”.
A source said at the time that the move was intended as a fresh start after a “brutal” few years for the couple, including the cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King.
However, their new home is just a short walk from Royal Lodge, where Prince Andrew has lived with Sarah Ferguson, his ex-wife, for more than two decades.
While Prince Andrew is now understood to be in advanced talks with the King’s representatives about quitting his long-time home, his initial response was to dig his heels in and cite the terms of his “cast iron” lease with the Crown Estate.
Buckingham Palace has long tried to place pressure on the King’s younger brother to voluntarily give up the residence, including by cutting his annual allowance last year. And there is now a growing sense of inevitability that Prince Andrew will soon move.
Prince William is understood to have been keen to stay out of the negotiations over his uncle being forced out, as he remains on good terms with his cousins, Beatrice and Eugenie, but he has made it clear he wants the matter resolved.
Andrew’s daughters Beatrice (front) and Eugenie in 2024.Credit: AP
Prince Andrew still has 50 years left on his prepaid lease, and there remains the problem of where he will live instead, as well as how much money he will receive in compensation for the millions he has spent on the property.
It has emerged that the public spending watchdog is poised to help examine Andrew’s finances. Last week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed an inquiry into the prince’s grace-and-favour mansion deal.
Starmer said he would support “proper scrutiny” of the arrangement when asked if he would like to see the Prince hauled before Parliament to face MPs.
At PMQs on Wednesday, Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, asked whether Sir Keir would “support a select committee inquiry so all those involved should be called for evidence, including the current occupant”.
Starmer said: “It’s important in relation to all properties, Crown properties, that there is proper scrutiny, so I certainly support that.”
The Telegraph, London
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