It won't be easy for King Charles III to kindly evict his brother Prince Andrew from the Royal Lodge after yet another revelation about the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the American businessman already convicted of sexual abuse and international trafficking of minors who took his own life in prison in 2019 while awaiting another trial.
The Duke of York has vowed to resist any request to leave his ten-bedroom mansion in Windsor. The King would like Andrew to live in the less exposed Frogmore Cottage, already a home away from the spotlight for Harry and Meghan before their "escape" to the United States.
Andrew, according to the Daily Mail, said he "won't go anywhere. The King can't force him to leave. He has an ironclad lease that he fully intends to honor". And then there is the total denial of any possible charge related to the latest dissemination of news on pedophilia cases connected to Epstein.
The documents have brought the Duke of York's friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein back into the news, reporting, without providing evidence, of "acts of sexual abuse" and an "orgy with minors".
And while it's true that the lease of the royal residence is bombproof, it's also true that Charles III has the ability to turn off the funding taps destined for his brother, who should also definitively renounce representation duties for the royal family.
These duties have already been significantly reduced: Andrew is allowed to participate in private and family events, but not public or official ones.
Without the support of the royal houses, it will not be easy for Prince Andrew to bear the costs of the 30-room villa in Windsor Great Park. In the meantime, he will have to start paying the not insignificant security costs of the mansion.
Andrew, eighth in line to the throne and described as very tried in recent days, believes that even the new revelations do not compromise him and reiterates his readiness, as always, to cooperate with investigators.
Meanwhile, Virginia Roberts Giuffre has said she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions when she was 17, one of these times was - she claims - in a bathroom in Maxwell's residence in London in 2001.
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