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King Charles has been warned he “cannot afford” to suffer yet another Royal Family scandal in the wake of the Prince Andrew row. Andrew has come under fresh scrutiny over his alleged links to a suspected Chinese spy.
Robin Edwards, a property buying agent at Curetons, spoke to GB News about the ongoing scandal. He said: “The King instructed the Keeper of the Privy Purse to cut off his younger brother’s allowance of around £1million a year and also no longer pay for his security detail, allegedly in an effort to force Andrew out of Royal Lodge.
“Therefore, it’s rather a mystery where exactly the money has come from for the Duke of York to maintain living there.” The Royal Family insider went on, adding: “Apart from a small navy pension, the source of Prince Andrews’s income is not known.
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“Before his fall from grace after the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Andrew was the Patron of the Middle East Association and also a Special Representative for UK Trade and Investment.” He said: “Now he is no longer a ‘working royal’, his business activities are less well known. ”
Edwards continued: “He must come clean to the King about the mystery benefactor who is financing him and thus allowing him to stay at Royal Lodge.” He went on, adding: “The Royal Family cannot afford another scandal, particularly when it comes to the Duke of York.”
It comes on the day Prince William, one of the King’s two sons, has agreed to end the last feudal restrictions on land ownership in parts of his hereditary Duchy of Cornwall estate after decades of complaints from residents.
The Prince of Wales will allow tenants in two of the most environmentally sensitive areas of his 55,000-hectare (135,000 acres) estate the right to buy the freehold to their homes for the first time.
