
Disgraced Prince Andrew has agreed to leave his home, Royal Lodge — and will formalize his decision within days, sources told Page Six.
Both Andrew and his ex, Sarah Ferguson, have agreed to move out of the 30-room mansion, which is owned by King Charles’ Crown Estate, amid the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
“Andrew realizes he has to leave,” one well-placed royal source told Page Six. “The hounds are at bay — and the hounds are quite powerful these days.”
Andrew has not paid rent on Royal Lodge for the past 22 years, according to UK reports, because he paid a large sum — around $10.7 million — to renovate the residence.
The news of a move comes less than two weeks after Andrew agreed to stop using his title, the Duke of York, amid fresh claims by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre in her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl.”
His ex, Ferguson, has also lost her title, Duchess of York, which she has used on the covers of the many books she has written over the years.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
Sources who know both Andrew, 65, and Ferguson, 66, confirmed that Buckingham Palace officials had previously discussed a plan that would involve Andrew moving into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s former home, Frogmore Cottage, while Ferguson would move into Prince William and Kate Middleton’s former home, Adelaide Cottage.
Both properties lie within Windsor Estate and are covered by British tax-payer funded royal security.
However, that plan was scrapped earlier this year, sources revealed, and it has not yet been agreed where Andrew and Ferguson will now live.
But the royal source said that cancer-stricken King Charles will continue to take care of his brother, who lost his HRH title in 2022 along with his military affiliations.
“The King knows he has to look after Andrew in some respect,” the royal source said. “There’s no doubt that Andrew has been rude and insensitive over the years, and there are a lot of people now getting their revenge.”
Sources shot down a report this week that Prince William had threatened to strip Andrew’s daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie of their princess titles if they did not persuade their father to leave Royal Lodge.
“I have never heard such nonsense,” said the royal source. “Anyone who knows William knows he is not that venomous and is fond of his cousins.”
“The Prince of Wales cannot take anybody’s titles away,” a palace insider told Page Six.
While it is technically possible for the king to rescind the title of prince or princess, it would likely only happen if the monarch and the government agreed.
Andrew paid Guiffre, who committed suicide in April at age 41, a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2022, but continues to deny any wrongdoing.
Guiffre long claimed she had been forced to sleep with Andrew when she was just 17 and while at the London home of Epstein’s madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, a former close friend of Andrew’s.
In her memoir, Guiffre detailed horrifying encounters and claiemd Andrew kissed her feet before allegedly abusing her.
“He was friendly enough, but still entitled — as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” Giuffre wrote.
The Metropolitan Police has said it is is investigating reports that Andrew tried to dig up damaging information on Giuffre in 2011 through a police contact. Andrew did not respond, but Buckingham Palace said the reports should be investigated.
Sources said Queen Elizabeth, who died in 2022, would be even more heartbroken by the turn of affairs than she already was.
“The queen was tremendously fond of Andrew,” said the palace insider. “When he was a little boy, he was the sweetest, most polite boy and I think that’s what truly always stuck with her. I don’t think she could reconcile with what she was told about him later in life.”
Next year, the royal family will reportedly visit the US to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence. As Page Six previously revealed, it’s expected Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, will come over for the celebrations and King Charles and Queen Camilla may as well.



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