King Charles III has reportedly lower off monetary ties from his brother Prince Andrew.
In his up to date biography, titled Charles III: New King. New Courtroom. The Inside Story, royal author Robert Hardman claimed that Charles, 75, had instructed the Keeper of the Privy Purse, or the monarchy’s finance director, to revoke his brother’s annual private allowance, reported to be within the realm of $1 million, in accordance with the Each day Mail.
Per the Each day Mail, a supply claimed, “The duke is now not a monetary burden on the King.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Buckingham Palace for remark.
Moreover, Hardman’s ebook said that the Palace will now not finance Andrew’s personal safety element, which is claimed to be within the seven-figure vary. In August, it was reported that the King had laid off Andrew’s 10-person personal safety workforce. Charles had been reportedly funding his brother’s safety element since 2022 after he was stripped of his royal titles and, in flip, the publicly funded safety afforded to royal members of the family.
On the time, there was hypothesis that Charles may additionally ask the Duke of York and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson to vacate their residence on the Royal Lodge in Windsor, a 31-room mansion the place the personal safety workforce additionally resided. The King is claimed to have beforehand demanded Andrew and Ferguson vacate the 90-acre property and transfer someplace smaller like Frogmore Cottage, the previous house of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan.
Andrew has been a disgraced member of the royal household since 2019, when his connections to the late billionaire intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had been made public. Andrew stepped again from his royal duties later that yr after sexual misconduct allegations had been leveled towards him by Virginia Giuffre, who allegedly knew him in reference to Epstein. Giuffre ultimately sued Andrew for the alleged assault, which they settled out of courtroom for an undisclosed sum.
That is the most recent improvement within the King’s dwindling relationship together with his brother, as Andrew has been combating to take care of his residence within the Royal Lodge, although he had reportedly uncared for to pay the annual $503,000 value of the $37 million mansion’s maintenance.
Andrew was stripped of his royal titles in January 2022 by his mom, the late Queen Elizabeth II. “With The Queen’s approval and settlement, The Duke of York’s army affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen,” Buckingham Palace introduced in an announcement on the time. “The Duke of York will proceed to not undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a non-public citizen.”
Charles has by no means publicly spoken out in regards to the allegations towards his youthful brother.