A royal expert has claimed that Prince Andrew’s “stubbornness” and “arrogance” has added fuel to the fire in his feud with King Charles as he battles to remain in his residence Royal Lodge in Windsor.
Royal commentator Rupert Bell says that the prince is only feeding his troubles with his attitude as he remains totally convinced that he’s in the right.
Mr Bell told Times Radio: “One of the problems that Prince Andrew has is that he is occasionally convinced of his rightness, and he gets himself into hot water with his stubbornness and sometimes his own arrogance has caused him to create these problems.
“He feels like he lost everything and if he loses his house, well then he probably feels that even more has been taken away from him.”
He added: “It’s an interesting dynamic between these two but King is trying in a way to force his hand but if Andrew says I can afford to live here, then there’s not much the King can do.”
The reigning monarch has instructed his Keeper of the Privy Purse, the monarch’s finance director, to cut the Duke of York’s £1million annual personal allowance, and he has also cut his private security detail.
The brothers have been in a long standing feud since the Duke of York reportedly refused to leave the Royal Lodge after King Charles instructed the Prince to do so. The Duke of York has been reliant on King Charles’s help since he stepped back from Royal duties in 2019 following a public outcry after his controversial BBC Newsnight interview with presenter Emily Maitlis.
Prince Andrew has been widely unpopular with the public since the release of the BBC interview where he discussed his friendship with late convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. Both Netflix and Amazon released TV dramas based on Andrew’s 2019 “career-ending” interview.
The Duke of York currently resides in Royal Lodge with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, a royal home which he signed a 75-year lease for in 2003.
Prince Andrew reportedly wants the home to be inherited by his two daughters Princess Eugenie, 34, and Princess Beatrice, 36, after him.
Although both princesses are members of the Royal Family, they are not part of the King’s “slimmed down monarchy” approach, which was adopted when he took to the throne with Queen Camilla.
Over the last few months, the 75-year-old monarch has tried to encourage his brother to downsize, withPrince Harry and Meghan Markle’s former home on the same estate an option offered to the Duke of York instead, according to reports.
