Last weekend, Becky English at the Daily Mail had a somewhat thorough article about what’s in store for the Windsors in 2026. I’m absolutely positive that all of it came straight from a Buckingham Palace briefing. English reported that the goalposts have been shifted on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor once again. Now they’re saying that Andrew and Sarah Ferguson will be out of Royal Lodge “by Easter,” and that a farmhouse on the Sandringham estate has already been earmarked for Andrew. There’s a problem though – apparently, the farmhouse needs so much work, it might not be ready by Easter, so there’s a chance that Andrew will need some kind of temporary housing for a few months. English also wrote: “I’m assured he will not be going to live abroad, as has been speculated, but it seems as if his eviction from his Windsor mansion might not be the clean and quick break that was originally hoped.” Well, now one of King Charles’s favorite biographers is saying something else entirely.

Exiled from the royal family, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is weighing his next move as he prepares to leave Royal Lodge, the 30-room Windsor mansion he has called home for more than two decades. The former Prince Andrew was ordered to surrender his lease on the property earlier this year after King Charles stripped him of his remaining royal titles and honors amid renewed scrutiny of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. While he will be receiving a private residence on the Sandringham estate, now owned by his brother, Charles, insiders say his future remains unsettled.

Royal biographer Robert Jobson suggests the former Duke of York’s exile could extend beyond the U.K. following the King’s recent meeting with the ruler of Bahrain.

“The King saw the King of Bahrain the other day. One never knows — it could be a place where Andrew gets the recognition of being the second son of Queen Elizabeth, rather than this,” says Jobson, whose latest book Windsor Legacy is out on Jan. 6.

Jobson adds that relocation to the Middle East would not be unprecedented. Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I has lived in Abu Dhabi since 2020 after stepping back from public life amid financial scandals. Speaking more broadly, Jobson notes: “Other disgraced people have gone to the Middle East. Andrew did a lot of business in Bahrain, and he’s still relatively young.”

Fellow biographer Andrew Lownie, whose book Entitled was a bestseller in the U.K., also believes the Middle East remains a likely option for Andrew. “He doesn’t like the sound of being on the Sandringham estate, I think he wants to go somewhere where he can just get away from everything,” Lownie adds.

While Marsh Farm, a modest property on the Sandringham estate, has been widely cited as Andrew’s most immediate destination, Jobson questions whether it will be a long-term solution. “I just can’t see him being on an isolated farm in Sandringham,” Jobson says.

Jobson says he was not surprised that Beatrice and Eugenie chose to spend Christmas at Sandringham, where they walked to church with King Charles and Queen Camilla, alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton.

“It’s easy to say this is a snub to their parents, but they would say, ‘I’m a royal princess, I’m in line to the throne, I have been invited to attend the King’s Christmas celebrations, and you don’t turn down the King’s invitation,'” Jobson says. “It’s not an invitation – it’s a command, really,” he adds.

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“I just can’t see him being on an isolated farm in Sandringham.” Really? I can. Andrew has lived a relatively quiet life in the past six years or so. As long as he’s allowed his horses, cars and shooting weekends, I could see Andrew living quite happily on an isolated farm on the Sandringham estate. He’ll likely still be allowed to HOST shooting parties in Norfolk as well, which pretty much guarantees that he’ll still have friends and a social life. He’s 65 years old – while he’s lived a debauched, degenerate, evil life, he’s slowed down a lot in recent years, and I could see how he might consider this his comfortable retirement package. I’m not saying any of this is a good thing, but I just don’t get a vibe of “Andrew is going to live it up in Bahrain” right now.

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