The disgraced former Duke of York faces faces additional humiliation, as his closest relations are reportedly making ready to distance themselves from him, notably if he relocates to the Highlands
King Charles is reportedly planning to ship Prince Andrew to a distant fortress within the Scottish highlands following the previous duke relinquishing his title.
The disgraced royal faces additional humiliation after the posthumous launch of Virginia Giuffre’s ebook, which particulars her claims that she was compelled to have intercourse with Andrew 3 times by convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Final week, Andrew introduced he’ll now not be utilizing his Duke of York and Earl of Inverness titles, together with different honours, although he technically retains them, as solely an Act of Parliament can formally strip him of them.
Andrew is going through recent allegations that he instructed his crew to dig up data on Giuffre, who tragically took her personal life earlier this yr at 41. He has persistently denied any wrongdoing and maintains that he by no means met her.
King Charles is going through stress to behave additional in opposition to his brother, although sources recommend he has reached the bounds of what he can do. Experiences now recommend the monarch is making an attempt to persuade Andrew to relocate to the Fortress of Mey within the Highlands.
The fortress, which is positioned in Caithness within the far north of Scotland, was purchased by the Queen Mom within the Fifties. It’s opened to the general public all year long, nonetheless, King Charles and Queen Camilla usually spend time there in the summertime earlier than heading to Balmoral.
In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry recalled that Meghan Markle sang to seals throughout a go to to the fortress and later fell pregnant with Prince Archie, making him imagine his spouse was “magic.”
Writing within the Every day Mail, royal writer Andrew Lownie, whose ebook Entitled on Andrew and Sarah Ferguson included explosive claims concerning the couple, mentioned Fergie’s loyalty to her ex-husband won’t lengthen to shifting to Scotland if “the prince is persuaded to relocate to the Fortress of Mey.”
Lownie factors out that the fortress is barely six miles from John O’Groats, which regardless of its romantic picture as a northeastern landmark is “nothing to put in writing dwelling about,” including that’s “consists of little greater than drab council housing, a sports activities park and a store”.
He additionally factors out: “…it is so grim that in 2010 it obtained a ‘Carbuncle Award’ from City Realm journal for being ‘Scotland’s most dismal city’.”
John O’Groats is a small village with a inhabitants of round 300. Whereas it’s a well-known vacationer spot as one of many two farthest factors on mainland Britain, alongside Land’s Finish, it has additionally been described as a “seedy vacationer entice.”
Lownie suggests Andrew is unlikely to stay there and is spending much less time at Royal Lodge on the Windsor Property. He additionally predicts the prince will ultimately settle someplace aside from Scotland, writing: “…it is extra probably that Air Miles Andy would find yourself someplace like Abu Dhabi the place he has a standing supply of using a salubrious palace courtesy of the ruling home of Nahyan.
“It is also a spot the place he might depend on with the ability to ebook a kind of massages that he is turn into so keen on through the years.”
Moreover Lownie claimed that Andrew’s two youngsters, Beatrice and Eugenie, have “had counselling to take care of the varied scandals their mother and father have been concerned in.” He additionally mentioned there “are rumours they’re having a lot much less contact with their father than they as soon as did”.
All eyes might be on Sandringham this Christmas, with Lownie noting that if the couple opts to attend the Norfolk celebrations as a substitute of visiting their mother and father, “it should present that Andrew and Fergie have been disowned by the one two folks they might as soon as depend on for unconditional assist”.
