{"id":943396,"date":"2026-05-07T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:30:20","slug":"royal-rift-deepens-as-king-charles-and-andrew-avoid-meeting-at-sandringham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943396\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal rift deepens as King Charles and Andrew avoid meeting at Sandringham"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles did not see his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, despite the pair recently staying within walking distance of each other on the Sandringham estate, sources have claimed.<\/p>\n

The monarch is understood to have taken a break at Wood Farm following his successful State Visit to the United States last week.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, has been residing at the refurbished Marsh Farm since relocating there on Easter Monday.<\/p>\n

Though barely half a mile and a single field separate the two properties near Wolferton village, the brothers did not meet.<\/p>\n

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The royal rift appears to have deepened as King Charles and Andrew avoid meeting at Sandringham<\/p>\n

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King Charles, 77, is continuing his duties meeting world leaders, while Mr Mountbatten-Windsor lives in exile, stripped of all royal titles.<\/p>\n

His former home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, is understood to have remained unoccupied months after the former duke was compelled to vacate it in February.<\/p>\n

A source told the Mail: “Andrew feels that his departure from Royal Lodge was unnecessarily hasty.<\/p>\n

“From his perspective, it was all done to appease the baying media and didn’t need to be carried out in such a rush before his new accommodation at Marsh Farm was ready.<\/p>\n

\"QueenQueen Camilla, King Charles, Donald Trump and Melania Trump pictured at the State Dinner | REUTERS<\/p>\n

“The fact that no one else had taken occupancy of Royal Lodge is the proof of that.”<\/p>\n

The source further claimed that King Charles is “really rubbing salt into the wounds by continuing to blank Andrew” while staying just a 10-minute walk away.<\/p>\n

King Charles earned widespread acclaim for his deft handling of President Donald Trump during last week’s transatlantic visit.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on February 19 on suspicion of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n

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Prince Edward and Andrew are the King’s younger brothers<\/p>\n

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He was released on investigation later that evening. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Prince Edward visited his older brother at his Sandringham bolthole last month in what royal sources described as a “brotherly welfare check.”<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old’s trip marked the first occasion any member of the Royal Family had seen Mr Mountbatten-Windsor since his Norfolk exile began.<\/p>\n

Sources close to Edward describe him as “deeply unsettled” in recent weeks, troubled both by the allegations surrounding his elder brother and by concerns for Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s mental and physical condition as the police inquiry proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles did not see his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, despite the pair recently staying within walking distance of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[173775,1760,5105,7710,519,448,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-943396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","9":"tag-king-charles","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals","14":"tag-sgg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116532361679144402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943396","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=943396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}