Andrew now basically holds the title of a commoner after his brother, King Charles, stripped him of his titles and honours last year following the increasing revelations about his controversial association with convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The disgraced royal was whisked away to Norfolk under the darkness of the night earlier this month after the US Department of Justice released the latest tranche of Epstein files, many of which mentioned him. The King’s brother currently resides at Wood Farm, his temporary home until renovations at Marsh Farm are complete.
Now, a journalist took a trip to Norfolk to see what Andrew’s new surroundings are like, and their verdict left little to hope for the disgraced ex-duke.
The Mirror’s Julia Banim said the area leading up to the Sandringham Estate in Wolferton is “undoubtedly eerie”.
She explained: “This isn’t a place where you’ll find rows of quaint pubs and charming independent shops. Even Wolferton Railway Station, opened in 1862 upon Queen Victoria’s purchase of the Sandringham House site, stands silent and still. No train has passed here since the ’60s, the days of Andrew’s charmed childhood as the apple of his mother’s eye.”
The journalist wrote about how Andrew’s new “tragic” cottage at Wood Farm has got history behind it, after Prince John, the so-called ‘Lost Prince’ died there in 1919, where he had been living apart from his siblings due to his epilepsy and alleged autism.
Ms Banim then visited Andrew’s actual future home, Marsh Farm, which allegedly caught her by surprise.
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She said: “It looks like the pleasant, red brick home of a well-to-do middle-class businessman, not the favourite son of Britain’s longest serving monarch.”
However, the journalist wrote about how there is “little in the way of privacy” and noted that a certain smell surprised her, saying: “The garden has a neglected sleepiness about it, and the smell of wet mud takes me aback.”
She added that there are signs the place is being fortified with new security systems in place for the disgraced duke’s arrival and security.
She concluded: “By all accounts, this gloomy new residence certainly paints a bleak picture of Andrew’s new life in relative exile.”
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