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If you thought King Charles‘ brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was sitting alone in his Sandringham home crying the blues and doing nothing but staring at four walls, you are mistaken.

After being stripped of his regal titles in 2025, the king announced that his younger brother was also being evicted from his 30-room, 98-acre Royal Lodge mansion.

A statement released by the Palace at the time read, “His Majesty has initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honors of Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor … [Andrew’s] lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease, and he will move to alternative private accommodation.”

That alternative accommodation happened to be a much smaller, modest five-bedroom house, known as Marsh Farm, located on the king’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk, more than 100 miles away from London. The thinking was that there, Andrew would be out of sight and out of mind for the royal family to continue their work without the distraction of Andrew and his long association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

For a while, it was believed that living in royal exile, Andrew just stayed inside the home with not much to do, didn’t veer off the estate, and did not have visitors. But now there’s a report that the former prince is actually having a good time and getting along just fine after moving to his new residence.

According to The Times, the claims that Andrew was thought to be “idling away his days in misery” are not true.

A well-placed source told the publication, “Don’t believe all that poor Andy crap. He’s having a very nice time, thank you very much. He goes out, goes shooting with friends, sees his old chums who are very loyal to him. He’s not sitting around feeling sorry for himself anymore.”

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There has also been a previous report by royal biographer and author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, Andrew Lownie, after witnesses spotted the former Duke of York in the Cannes and Nice regions. 

“Andrew has not been stuck forlornly in Marsh Farm over the summer. He retains his passport and regularly travels abroad with the knowledge of the king,” Lownie shared, before adding, “Andrew has been in the South of France, where he was spotted in a red baseball cap, white trousers, Timberland shoes, and Ray-Ban glasses, and accompanied by two 40-something women — one blond and the other with red hair. It is said he is looking for a property in the region.”

Another thing that drew the ire of many is the news on Oct. 9 that Andrew has given back the keys to Royal Lodge after being evicted and paid around $2.4 million for repairs to the home. That amount was covered by King Charles, and Andrew was given $400,000 in compensation, deducted from the total owed, because he surrendered the lease within the first 25 years of living there.

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