Buckingham Palace constantly pushes stories about Prince Andrew’s isolation and they regularly make him sound like he’s barely keeping it together. But Andrew is still seen and heard from often enough – he’s been seen on horseback constantly this year, riding his horses around Windsor. He reportedly still gets invited to shooting weekends, and he’s still allowed to host shooting parties at Sandringham and other royal properties. He’s also still invited to “family events,” at least during his brother’s reign. Considering all of the lurid stories coming out about Andrew from Andrew Lownie’s book, you would think that King Charles would have tried to avoid even being in the same general vicinity as his brother these days. You would be wrong – Charles has allowed Andrew and the Yorks to come up to Balmoral this summer, even if Charles wants people to think that he’s “avoiding” Andrew.
Prince Andrew ‘honourably withdrew’ from joining the Royal Family for the annual gathering in Sandringham last Christmas to avoid being a distraction. It came after an alleged Chinese spy, linked to the Duke of York, was named following a High Court judgment. The duke has, however, been allowed to join King Charles, Queen Camilla and other members of the family at Balmoral despite the string of sordid revelations about him in a devastating new book serialised by the Daily Mail.
Historian Andrew Lownie’s book, Entitled: The Rise And Fall Of The House Of York, details the duke’s close friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his mysterious financial dealings with foreign billionaires, as well as making claims about his ‘bullying’ of palace staff, vulgar sense of humour and brazen sex life.
‘Andrew arrived at Balmoral on Friday,’ a source on Royal Deeside tells me. ‘He was on his own, with none of the security he used to have. He is believed to be staying at a lodge on the estate.’
The source claims that the duke’s ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, will join him later this week.
The King received an official welcome to Balmoral Castle yesterday, marking the start of his summer holiday. Wearing a tweed jacket and a tartan kilt, the King inspected a Guard of Honour formed of Balaklava Company, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland during a ceremony outside the Castle Gates. The Queen was not with her husband but on a shopping trip with her daughter, Laura, and her grandchildren in the nearby Aberdeenshire village of Ballater.
Although the King received his official welcome at the castle, the source claims he will continue to spend much of his holiday at Birkhall, his beloved retreat on the Balmoral estate: ‘It remains to be seen whether Andrew spends any time at all with his brother.’
It would not surprise me at all if Andrew will be the one playing host to the family at Balmoral, while Charles hides out at Birkhall. Balmoral is big enough for the family to spread out, obviously, and I would assume that the Yorks have the run of the place too. Just a reminder that Charles isn’t going to do jacksh-t about Andrew in the long run. Now, I actually believe the stories that “King William” plans to take away Andrew’s titles and what have you. But yeah, it’s wild that the Yorks are still welcome to vacation in Balmoral. The question I have: do you think the Wales family will even bother making their annual quickie visit to Scotland this year? And if they do, will Charles force them into a car with Andrew again?
The Duke of York has attended church in Balmoral with senior royals in an apparent show of unity which insiders say marks an end to any talk of a “family divided”
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I knew all about the randy Andy and Epstein stories. What I was shocked about that the author thought he had the right to reveal to the world that he was raped at 11. Victims should get to choose if they want to share such a devastating experience, not some random author.
Who was raped at 11?
The Lownie book says Andrew had sex for the first time at age 11 which, being far below the age of consent, constitutes rape.
@Lover, 😳
Was this Mountbatten?
Pics or it didn’t happen. The reporters can write it is understood that the Wales went to Balmoral all they want but do they really know? There seems to be a lot of bad blood between C&C and the Wales right now, but maybe that’s just their normal and they’ll do their usual thing in Balmoral despite the dagger digs they take at each other in the tabloids.
Of course Andrew is still in the bosom of the BRF. HE IS THE BRF & THE BRF IS ANDREW. They are a malignantly corrupt and inbred clan of criminals who should all be dragged to The Hague & tried for crimes against humanity, divested of their wealth & subjected to worldwide shame.
But somehow, the Great British Public demands that they be held up as some kind of totem for the core of their national identity. Andrew is just the naked, rotting branch held out as a scapegoat for the rest of the toxic tree.
@ANNE-MARIE agreed! God knows how this generation of royal children are being neglected, used and abused.
Just smoke and mirror with these people….
So Andrew (and likely Fergie) are again invited to Balmoral, despite their life of debaucheries, of pedophiling, of corruption ( Fergie demanding hundreds if thousand £ for access to her criminal ex-husband) etc etc. They continue to be welcomed to Balmoral, never mind if staying a mile away from the castle, never mind that C&C will also not stay at the castle but at their fav home somewhere on the grounds. Fact remains, they can do no wrong in the eyes of the Royal family, whatever their criminal activities they remain “family” and Charles can be indulgent towards his mafia brother and his floozy, tramp of a SIL!
Not so towards his own son and his wife who have done nothing but choose to live their own lives, @no charge to taxpayers, on their own terms and be honest about the abuse they endured while living “within the confines and near the putrid royal family”! H&M are kicked out of their home, not welcome anywhere near the family.
Why? One couple is criminal, the other honest. Yet the criminals are accepted and welcomed, but not the honest, own flesh and blood? What is the criterium to be accepted? Skin colour, criminality, low iq?
“Droit de seigneur.” The Royals don’t see any harm with having sex with anyone they fancy, Andrew’s real mistake was the dreadful interview.
Closely followed by his payment of c£10m to Virginia Giuffre