Any bid by King Charles to evict Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from their Royal Lodge would be a ‘waste of time’ say legal experts, as the lease guarantees their tenancy for another 50 years

Andrew and Fergie have lived rent-free in the 30-room mansion since 2003 after he paid £1million for the lease – which doesn’t run out until 2078 – in his name and that of his family.

But trying to get the couple kicked out of the property with its 96-acre grounds within Windsor Great Park would be impossible, according to top property lawyer Mike Hansom.

‘Any attempt to get Andrew out would be a waste of time as he bought the house on a 75-year lease agreement and therefore is legally entitled to live in the property until 2078,’ said Mr Hansom, partner at BLB Solicitors.

‘He would either have to agree to leave by mutual consent or can only be forced to leave if he has failed to adhere to the tenants covenants in the lease, which is unlikely.’

Mr Hansom’s comments will serve as a hammer blow to the growing clamour for Andrew to be evicted, which has been backed by Robert Jenrick who says the British public are ‘sick’ of him.

But property expert and estate agent Henry Sherwood agreed they would be unlikely to get him to leave against his will – unless Royal lawyers were able to dig up an obscure ancient law giving the senior Royals the power to oust him.

‘He has lease to rent it but there is a peppercorn agreement so he only pays a nominal amount, usually just £1 so they can say he pays for it,’ said Mr Sherwood.

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Calls are growing for Prince Andrew to be kicked out of the Royal Lodge (pictured in 2024), the lavish Windsor mansion he shares with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson

Police were seen guarding the gates of Andrew and Fergie’s home today

‘Unless there are any break clauses then the lease is valid for the full term and he cannot be evicted. However, they may be able to find an ancient by law, etcetera, saying only available to royalty.’

William’s push to exile Andrew throws an intriguing new light on yesterday’s claim that he is beginning to call the shots in the Royal Family because of his father’s health.

Royal biographer Tina Brown says that William and ‘can’t abide Andrew and wants him to disappear’.

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Ms Brown, a friend of Princess Diana who was editor-in-chief of Tatler and Vanity Fair, claims having him in Windsor threatens to spoil life at their ‘new forever home’ Forest Lodge. The couple will move in next month with their three children George, Charlotte and Louis.

Writing on her Fresh Hell Substack, Ms Brown, the highly respected author of The Palace Papers said: ‘Unless Andrew can be persuaded to banish himself to a cottage on the Balmoral estate or a cushy villa on a Dubai golf course, his scowly, jowly visage will keep seeping back into the national consciousness.’

Calling Andrew the ‘Duke of Dross’, she said the future King and Queen are pondering: ‘How do you disappear a 6-foot-tall, 190-pound, 65-year-old man in robust good health who has an iron-clad contract to live in the Queen Mother’s former mansion, a short neigh from Windsor Castle and just four miles from the new ‘forever’ home of Prince William and Kate, who can’t abide him?’

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There was yet another shocking twist in the royal-Epstein scandal when it emerged last night Andrew hasn’t paid rent on his palatial property for 22 years – said to be in the region of £260,000 a year.

Prince William is said to want rid of Prince Andrew (pictured together after the Duchess of Kent’s funeral last month) and he and Kate can’t ‘abide’ him, according to Tina Brown 

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Andrew should be kicked out of his Windsor Royal Lodge and disappear because the British public are ‘sick’ of him and he is an embarrassment to his family and the UK, according to Jenrick.

And he could become the first royal to be caught up in a criminal probe in more than 20 years. Scotland Yard has confirmed it is ‘actively’ probing claims he asked an officer to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre, whose posthumous autobiography is out today.

Brown repeated the claim that William will ban his errant uncle from his coronation – and could even consider keeping him away from King Charles’ funeral, when the tragedy occurs.

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She wrote: ‘The thornier question, perhaps approaching faster than anyone is indelicate enough to discuss, is whether, in the fullness of time, Andrew will be allowed to attend his brother, the king’s, funeral’.

Tina cited the toe-curling moment William was stuck next to Andrew outside the Duchess of Kent’s funeral at Westminster Cathedral last month.

William looked deeply uncomfortable as his uncle appeared to be laughing as the left the service. 

She said: ‘The untenable hazard of banning him from public events but allowing him to still show up at family occasions was writ large at the September funeral of the Duchess of Kent, the late queen’s cousin by marriage. 

‘As the mourning royal party paused respectfully in the door of Westminster Cathedral when the duchess’s funeral cortege passed, Andrew loomed like a great white shark at the shoulder of a stone-faced Prince William. 

‘It was impossible for William, staring implacably in the other direction, to get his uncle’s baleful mug out of the shot. No chance of that happening again’.

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Shadow justice secretary Jenrick has said it is disgusting that taxpayers are subsiding him to live in a 30-room mansion with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson when he should be paying £200,000 a year.

‘I don’t see why the taxpayer frankly should continue to foot the bill. The public are sick of Prince Andrew’, he said.

Mr Jenrick continued: ‘I don’t think the taxpayer should in any way be footing the bill for him to live in luxury homes ever again. He shouldn’t have any taxpayer subsidies going forward.

‘It’s about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private and make his own way in life. He has disgraced himself, he has embarrassed the Royal Family time and again. 

‘The King deserves great respect and admiration for the way he has handled this. He is trying to do his absolute best to ensure Prince Andrew goes off, leads a quiet life and doesn’t embarrass himself, the royal family or our country ever again‘.

An unredacted copy of his lease emerged last night.

It shows that while he paid £1million to lease the property in 2003 and spent £7.5million on refurbishments, he has paid only ‘one peppercorn (if demanded)’ of rent a year since taking on the mansion 22 years ago.

This is because Andrew is deemed to have paid the rent up front through the work he has funded to bring the palatial property up to scratch. 

It also means the Crown Estate will have to pay him around half a million pounds if he were to quit his mansion before the lease on it runs out in 2078.

A copy of the agreement was obtained by The Times newspaper following pressure from MPs and campaigners. And it will no doubt add to public outrage over Andrew’s perceived ‘perks’. 

Sources have stressed to the Daily Mail, however, that questions still remain over how the King’s brother can afford the vast 30-bedroom property, which comes with multi-million running costs.

The Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that Andrew is not believed to have received any significant inheritance from the Queen or Queen Mother, raising fresh questions about how he can afford to stay in the property – particularly when he now receives no personal allowance from the King, or public funding.

Charles, 76, has desperately tried to persuade his younger brother to downsize and move out of the grade II-listed mansion in recent years. 

He believes many of Andrew’s problems – particularly those that saw him drawn to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and other shady characters – stem from chasing a lifestyle he simply cannot afford.

But Andrew, 65, has stubbornly insisted that he has a cast-iron lease on the house. And as long as he pays the rent, the King has no legal right to throw him out.

The revelation comes as:

• A devastating memoir by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is published today, in which she doubles down on allegations she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions – a claim the prince strongly denies;

• A growing chorus of MPs demanded legislation to legally strip Andrew of his royal titles, including that of the Duke of York, through an Act of Parliament after he only voluntarily gave them up last Friday;

• Scotland Yard admitted an internal probe into allegations that the prince obtained Ms Giuffre’s social security number and demanded that a police protection officer try to ‘dig up dirt’ on her could take weeks – if the records even still exist;

• Buckingham Palace removed Andrew’s former title, Duke of York, from its website, although his official biography remains;

• Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson changed her social media profiles from ‘Sarah the Duchess’ to ‘sarahMFergie15’;

• Princess Beatrice visited her father at Royal Lodge in a public show of support.

Beatrice and her sister Eugenie are said to have pulled out of a charity ball in London on Saturday amid the torrent of unedifying claims around their father.

While details of the Queen’s will have never been made public, it is thought that Andrew was not left sufficient funds to sustain his apparently lavish lifestyle.

Royal Lodge, in the heart of Windsor Great Park, was the home of the Queen Mother, and was leased to Andrew after her death. 

The Crown Estate approved the arrangement, saying its location and ‘security concerns’ made it difficult to rent out on the open market. 

Princess Beatrice drives from Royal Lodge, home of her father Prince Andrew and mother Sarah Ferguson, at Windsor in Berkshire on Monday 

Andrew had to carry out £7.5million of refurbishment work when he took the property on in 2003. He was given a 75-year lease in return for a one-off payment of £1million.

His rent was believed to be upwards of £260,000 a year, with a legal requirement to keep the property in a good state of repair.

However, sources at Windsor say the house is a virtual ‘money pit’ and there have long been claims Andrew has been struggling with its upkeep. 

Until now it had been widely assumed that without any public funding or private allowance from his brother, the prince had been dipping into personal investments and family bequests to bankroll the property.

The revelation over his inheritance will inevitably raise questions about how he can afford to live there. Andrew also has to fund his own security after losing his official police bodyguard. 

The King had previously said that if his brother downsized and moved to a smaller property on the estate – potentially Frogmore Cottage, recently vacated by Harry – he would reinstate his personal allowance and help fund his security.

But after Andrew point-blank refused, it is not known whether the offer is still even on the table.

The headlines have been an unfortunate distraction for the King, who yesterday made a moving visit to Manchester to visit the Heaton Park synagogue that was targeted in a terror attack earlier this month.