{"id":678227,"date":"2026-01-06T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:26:12","slug":"ex-prince-andrew-could-be-headed-for-the-middle-east-rather-than-sandringham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678227\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Prince Andrew Could Be Headed for the Middle East Rather Than Sandringham"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In October, King Charles stripped his younger brother Prince Andrew of all royal titles and privileges, leaving him a commoner known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to his titles being stripped, Andrew is also being forced to vacate his home, Royal Lodge, where he\u2019s lived for 23 years.<\/li>\n<li>The general school of thought is that Andrew is headed for Sandringham\u2014but there might be a surprising location he\u2019s considering, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Much ado has been made about <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-andrew-new-blow-royal-lodge-payout-11843801\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> relocating from his 30-room mansion Royal Lodge to the Sandringham estate in Norfolk\u2014but according to a new report, that might not necessarily happen after all.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> As news emerged that the former Prince Andrew was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/ex-prince-andrew-royal-lodge-move-out-by-easter-11878948\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">due to head to Sandringham by Easter<\/a>, a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/how-ex-prince-andrew-could-face-overseas-exile-instead-sandringham-11879736\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> suggests that he could actually end up living overseas\u2014in the Middle East, specifically. Royal biographer Robert Jobson said that a hint might be found in <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-rugby-team-hug-8711449\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a>\u2019s recent meeting with the King of Bahrain, telling the outlet, \u201cThe King saw the King of Bahrain the other day. One never knows\u2014it could be a place where Andrew gets the recognition of being the second son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-elizabeth-best-quotes-inspiration-11868035\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, rather than this,\u201d referring to the fallout surrounding his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n<\/p>\n<p> Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and King Charles on September 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Jobson noted that a royal relocation to the Middle East isn\u2019t without precedent, as Spain\u2019s former King Juan Carlos I has lived in Abu Dhabi since 2020 following scandals surrounding his finances.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cOther disgraced people have gone to the Middle East,\u201d Jobson said. \u201cAndrew did a lot of business in Bahrain, and he\u2019s still relatively young.\u201d (He will turn 66 years old on February 19.)\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_15-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> As for moving to Sandringham, royal biographer Andrew Lownie told People, \u201cHe doesn\u2019t like the sound of being on the Sandringham estate. I think he wants to go somewhere where he can just get away from everything.\u201d Jobson agreed, adding, \u201cI just can\u2019t see him being on an isolated farm in Sandringham.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on April 11, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> One source who has spent time at Sandringham told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2025\/10\/31\/andrew-life-of-exile-as-commoner-sandringham\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> that \u201cit\u2019s going to be a lonely life for him. It\u2019s a working farm, so there are always people around\u2014but there are staff, and he\u2019s not someone who has a track record of being friendly with servants.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want to live there the whole time,\u201d the insider added. \u201cIt\u2019s remote, there is the wind whipping in from The Wash, it\u2019s cold, and he will be pretty much stuck there. It does have a certain beauty, but life will be bleak for him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on March 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In addition to his accommodations being far less than the 30-room mansion he\u2019s lived in since 2003, royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/oct\/31\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-plain-old-andrew-mountbatten-windsor\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> that life without his royal titles and privileges\u2014which King Charles stripped him of last October\u2014\u201cwill be pretty well a living hell for him, given his particular fondness for titles and his entitled attitude.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Royal biographer Robert Hardman further summed it up, telling Sky News that Andrew \u201chas been treated as an enemy of the state, effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In October, King Charles stripped his younger brother Prince Andrew of all royal titles and privileges, leaving him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-678227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115849565504085960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}