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Prince Andrew is swimming in a sea of controversy after Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, was released on October. 21. Now, royal sources are chiming in about Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s reaction to the drama.
The royal couple apparently “can’t abide” Prince Andrew and would be happy if he would “disappear,” according to Tina Brown’s Fresh Hell Substack. Their new home at Forest Lodge is a little too close for comfort for them, as Andrew’s Royal Lodge is about four miles away. That might seem like a great distance, but the Prince of Wales is ready to “banish” his uncle forever.
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“Unless Andrew can be persuaded to banish himself to a cottage on the Balmoral estate or a cushy villa on a Dubai golf course, his scowly, jowly visage will keep seeping back into the national consciousness,” wrote Brown. For William and Kate, it becomes a situation of how to make the problem go away forever, especially when King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth treat him with kid gloves.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Andrew
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“How do you disappear a 6-foot-tall, 190-pound, 65-year-old man in robust good health who has an iron-clad contract to live in the Queen Mother’s former mansion, a short neigh from Windsor Castle and just four miles from the new ‘forever’ home of Prince William and Kate, who can’t abide him?” added Brown.
The Prince of Wales became frustrated that his father was always gentle in his punishment of Andrew — it was never severe enough. That’s why it was reportedly William who orchestrated the latest reprimands, according to Rob Shuter’s Oct. 17 Naughty But Nice Substack. “William made it clear this couldn’t drag on any longer,” a palace insider claimed. “He told his father that if Andrew didn’t go quietly, the family’s image would never recover.”
William had reached his limit with the former Duke of York in September when his uncle managed to score a prime seat near him at the funeral of the late Katharine, the Duchess of Kent, according to the Daily Beast. The event left him “boiling with anger,” not only toward Andrew, but also his father, who had let the Jeffrey Epstein controversy continue to fester.
“William always said, ‘Just cut Andrew off completely. It’s not appropriate to have an alleged sex offender breaking bread with the royal family.’ Charles was so desperate to be seen as embodying the spirit of Christian forgiveness that he let Andrew back in,” a source told the media outlet.
The Prince and Princess of Wales only have so much power right now with King Charles on the throne, but Andrew’s days in the royal family might be short if William has his way.
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