Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s move out of Royal Lodge is just days away and will undoubtedly prove a challenge to pack up everything he has accumulated since he moved there in 2004. Before he called the 30-room mansion home, Andrew had lived in nearby Sunninghill Park before his divorce from Sarah Ferguson.
After the former couple went their separate ways, their previous home was transferred into a trust controlled by Queen Elizabeth II’s closest financial advisers for £12,500. In 2007, the trust sold the property to an offshore trust belonging to a Kazakh billionaire for £15 million.
It then fell into significant disrepair, and a collection of rarely seen photographs taken at the property reveals just how rundown the home had become after it was abandoned. Sunninghill Park was left in such a state that, in 2016, the decision was taken to demolish it altogether.
The Daily Express has taken a look at a selection of images which were captured in 2009.
Photographs show the garden was incredibly overgrown, with little care taken to maintain it to the standard typically seen in royal residences. Sunninghill Park was a 12-bedroom, 12-bathroom two-storey building with six reception rooms. Inside, the home was complete with a gym, a games room and a library. Andrew and Sarah lived in the mansion until 2004, despite filing for divorce in 1996.
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