(NewsNation) — Randy Andy is getting some hanky-panky.
According to my sources, former Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, isn’t suffering alone while in royal exile on Marsh Farm.
“He’s been seeing a (local) woman in Norfolk,” my insider said.
Which is handy, as Marsh Farm is located on the grounds of the King’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk County.
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“It’s very convenient,” another source told me.
While the public message from the Crown is that Andrew is supposedly on some sort of “house arrest,” his royal protection was taken away from him along with his titles and former home, Royal Lodge — the actuality is very different.
Andrew Lownie, the preeminent expert on the House of York and author of the devastating biography “Entitled,” says the disgraced Duke’s exile looks an awful lot like a European vacation.
FILE – Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, looks round as he leaves after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
Britain’s former Prince Andrew, Duke of York leaves Westminster Abbey following the coronation ceremony of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on May 6, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Toby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – SEPTEMBER 16: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Prince Andrew, Duke of York and King Charles III attend Katharine, Duchess of Kent’s Requiem Mass service at Westminster Cathedral on September 16, 2025 in London, England. Katharine, Duchess of Kent was married to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. She died on September 4 at the age of 92 at Kensington Palace surrounded by her family. Having converted to Catholicism in 1994, her funeral takes place at Westminster Cathedral and is the first Catholic funeral to be held for a member of the royal family in modern British history. Her Royal Highness will be laid to rest at the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore, Windsor. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
“He still thinks he’s a hotshot businessman,” Lownie said. “The papers have actually covered him going to Brittany. I’d heard that he’d gone to the south of France and was actually looking to buy property there — which doesn’t suggest that he’s worried about going to prison. There’s stories of him going to Switzerland, even going to the Middle East.”
And slipping the leash couldn’t be easier. “He’s got his passport still. He can nip out the back door at Marsh Farm and be driven to the local airport and stuck on a private jet,” Lownie said. “So I don’t think we should feel too sorry for him.”
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Lownie claims the royal freeze-out is largely theatre for the public’s benefit.
“It suits the purposes of the royal family to suggest that he’s under house arrest, that they’re giving him a hard time, they’re distancing themselves because of the reputational damage,” he told me. “But I think behind the scenes, it’s still a pretty cozy relationship.”
Lownie said Andrew has been “smuggled out of the house” to secretly visit his royal siblings at their homes (and, presumably, his new girlfriend).
“It’s business as usual, I think.”
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But despite living a lavish life, Andrew is embittered.
“He’s been saying that he feels betrayed by his family for all he did for them — the disloyalty,” Lownie revealed, adding that the former prince is not speaking to his youngest daughter.
“Eugenie is still very cross with him, I think, and he’s very cross with her,” Lownie said — noting he doesn’t even know whether Andrew has visited Eugenie’s new baby. Beatrice, meanwhile, is “much more prepared to go along with him” and is “very much more under the thumb of Sarah Ferguson.”
ASCOT, UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 20: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Princess Eugenie attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)
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SANDRINGHAM, NORFOLK – DECEMBER 25: Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, Counsellor of State, attend the Christmas Morning Service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2025 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Eugenie’s husband Jack Brooksbank, for his part, “has been quite tough… about the need to keep away from Andrew and indeed Sarah Ferguson and preserve their own small family unit.”
Albeit this could be because Eugenie and her sister Beatrice are “nervous about losing their royal accommodation. They’re nervous about the titles being taken away,” Lownie said.
Now here’s where it gets rich. Remember, this is the same Andrew who spent years demanding taxpayer-funded protection for Beatrice and Eugenie “when there was no threat to them,” as Lownie put it. “It was all about status.”
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Sound familiar? Lownie says another exiled royal is running the exact same play right now: Prince Harry, in his endless crusade for British taxpayer-funded security.
“I think Harry’s playing the same game,” Lownie said. “This is all about bigging himself up rather than actually a real threat. Talking to some of the policemen involved, they just don’t think that he is as vulnerable as he suggests.”
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The real motive? “It is about presenting himself as a player on equal terms with the others — when he’s not,” Lownie said. “It will make him appear like he is a genuine royal.”
And if Harry pockets taxpayer-funded bodyguards, then jets off to California for Christmas? “It would stick in the throat of many people — this idea that he’s on holiday for Christmas and we, the taxpayer, are paying for him to have bodyguards watching his expensive house, when he’s previously paid for that himself.”
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