{"id":415229,"date":"2025-11-30T14:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415229\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:41:16","slug":"disgraced-andrew-makes-royal-demands-for-luxurious-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415229\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Andrew Makes Royal Demands for Luxurious New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the royal formerly known as Prince, is still reeling off demands and making ultimatums about his future living arrangements, the Daily Beast\u2019s Royalist can reveal.<\/p>\n

He is demanding a substantial \u201csix or seven bedroom\u201d house on the Sandringham Estate, complete with staff, including a cook, gardener, housekeeper, driver, and police security, sources have told the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n

A friend of Andrew said, \u201cAndrew has done exactly what has been asked of him, and he just wants to be left alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to comment on a report<\/a> in the British news magazine Private Eye<\/a> this week, that suggested that Andrew is still negotiating where exactly he will live on the Sandringham Estate, the friend said, \u201cHe is giving up the lease on one of England\u2019s finest houses and expects to be treated fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former courtier told the Daily Beast: \u201cKnowing Andrew, this was always going to be about money. Andrew is essentially being bought out of the lease, so he will haggle over every last detail of the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s reluctance to settle is being blamed in some quarters for a new timeline leaking out of the palace via U.K. newspapers, suggesting Andrew might stay at Royal Lodge for several more months.<\/p>\n

Not helping matters is the revelation that the king\u2019s other brother, Prince Edward, has been paying rent of\u2014checks notes\u2014\u201cone peppercorn\u201d for his palatial home, Bagshawe Park.<\/p>\n

\"gettyimages-618242606-594x594_1_cowutm\"Martin Bashir interviews Princess Diana in Kensington Palace for the BBC\u2019s \u201cPanorama\u201d in 1995. Pool Photograph\/Corbis\/Corbis via Getty How the BBC covered up for Martin Bashir over his Diana inteview<\/b><\/p>\n

Thirty years after it aired, the BBC interview that defined the public image of Diana, Princess of Wales, is being recast as something far darker\u2014and possibly fatal\u2014in a new book by former BBC journalist Andy Webb.<\/p>\n

Webb, who sat down with the Royalist<\/a> this week for a fascinating interview, is the author of Dianarama: The Betrayal of Princess Diana. He argues that Martin Bashir\u2019s 1995 Panorama scoop was not just obtained by deceit, but helped push Diana onto the path that ended in the Pont de l\u2019Alma tunnel less than two years later.<\/p>\n

\"AndyAndy Webb\u2019s new book, \u201cDianarama: The Betrayal of Princess Diana,\u201d argues that the BBC interview with Martin Bashir might have hastened Diana\u2019s death. Penguin Books UK <\/p>\n

Had the BBC not concealed how it was secured, Webb believes, Diana \u201cmight not have died in the way she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

His thesis rests on years of reporting and thousands of pages of BBC emails dragged out via Freedom of Information requests. <\/p>\n

Webb shows how Bashir produced forged bank statements suggesting that staff around Earl Spencer were being paid by hostile media and shadowy \u201cintelligence\u201d interests. The documents, first shown to Spencer, \u201chooked\u201d Diana, leading her to believe the BBC had uncovered a conspiracy against her.<\/p>\n

Already deeply suspicious of her husband\u2019s circle, Diana was primed to believe Bashir\u2019s claims that courtiers, bodyguards, a nanny, and even her private secretary were betraying her. <\/p>\n

Webb contends that Panorama helped blow up what remained of her marriage, hastened her divorce, and contributed to her decision to shed police protection and long-standing staff\u2014people who might later have urged caution on that fatal Paris night.<\/p>\n

Inside the BBC, Webb describes a parallel story: alarmed whistleblowers were sidelined, while senior managers accepted Bashir\u2019s reassurances. An internal inquiry in 1996 declared Bashir \u201chonest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only in 2021 did the Dyson report finally state that Bashir had acted deceitfully and that the BBC had fallen \u201cfar short\u201d of its own standards in a subsequent cover-up. Webb argues Dyson still stopped short of examining how thoroughly the corporation buried the truth.<\/p>\n

His book lands as the BBC endures fresh crises and as director-general Tim Davie departs, his tenure bookended by Panorama scandals. <\/p>\n

Webb, who keeps a small picture of Diana taped to his computer, says the question that now hangs over the BBC is brutally simple: if this is what it did to the most famous woman in the world, why should anyone else trust it?<\/p>\n

\"PrincessThe Christmas Day service at Sandringham Church is a royal tradition, as is the family Christmas lunch. But it looks like William won\u2019t be at the dining table this year. Samir Hussein\/WireImage William skips Christmas lunch again<\/b><\/p>\n

Prince William will once again skip King Charles\u2019s Christmas lunch at Sandringham, the royal house in Norfolk, England. This will be, at least, the third consecutive year he has chosen not to join his father for the traditional gathering\u2014and his absence underscores the increasingly strained relationship between the monarch and his heir.<\/p>\n

Sources told the Royalist<\/a> that while William, Catherine, and their children will attend the Christmas morning church service \u201cwith big smiles pasted on,\u201d they will return to nearby Anmer Hall rather than go to the main house for lunch.<\/p>\n

\"sandringhamUnlike other palaces owned by the Crown, Sandringham is owned personally by the British monarch, and is used for family getaways. Radcliffe\/Bauer-Griffin\/GC Images <\/p>\n

One friend of King Charles insisted there is no rift, but several insiders say that tensions between father and son have deepened dramatically over the past year.<\/p>\n

Central to the strain is King Charles\u2019s continued support for his brother Andrew\u2019s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, whom he plans to continue including in royal occasions, despite the reputational damage associated with their father.<\/p>\n

William, whose operation is run by young advisers acutely attuned to digital optics, views the king\u2019s endorsement of the York sisters as a dangerous liability. Charles recently awarded Beatrice a major royal patronage with the Outward Bound Trust\u2014just days after she attended high-profile events in Saudi Arabia\u2014prompting further disquiet in William\u2019s camp.<\/p>\n

The dispute goes beyond Christmas optics.<\/p>\n

William is troubled by the opaque rental arrangements that allow Beatrice and Eugenie to maintain grace-and-favor homes in London, echoing the long-misleading assurances that Andrew paid \u201ccommercial rent\u201d for Royal Lodge, which ultimately amounted to a \u201cpeppercorn per annum.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been a series of flashpoints between Charles and William this year.<\/p>\n

The Royalist first reported a \u201cvery strained\u201d relationship in August, noting William\u2019s belief that Charles\u2019s monarchy remains pompous and outdated, while Charles views his son\u2019s prioritisation of family life over constant public visibility as a dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n

\"VATICANPrince William was thought to be reluctant to attend the funeral of Pope Francis in April 2025. William\u2019s soccer team, Aston Villa, was playing an important cup game the same day. Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Incidents such as William\u2019s initial reluctance to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, and his refusal to participate in the VJ Day commemorations, exacerbated the divide.<\/p>\n

Behind it all lie deeper scars: William\u2019s childhood trauma, his resentment over his parents\u2019 separation, and clashing visions for the monarchy\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Charles believes in relentless duty; William believes in modernization and boundaries. Their offices speak mainly through intermediaries.<\/p>\n

And now, for the third year running, the two men will break bread apart on Christmas Day\u2014a symbolic reminder of a royal relationship under immense strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the royal formerly known as Prince, is still reeling off demands and making ultimatums about his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6531,194799,171,186,194800,4170,71740,125368,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-415229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-diana-princess-of-wales","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-martin-bashir","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-prince-andrew-duke-of-york","15":"tag-royalist","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115639175804503299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}