Former Prince Andrew has moved out of his long-time residence on Crown land near Windsor Castle earlier than planned, following renewed scrutiny sparked by newly released U.S. documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
The 65-year-old brother of King Charles III—now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—left the Royal Lodge on Monday and relocated to the king’s private Sandringham estate in eastern England, according to a person familiar with the matter. British media report that he is staying temporarily at Wood Farm Cottage while a permanent residence on the estate undergoes repairs.
The relocation follows the release of millions of pages of U.S. Department of Justice documents connected to the Epstein investigation, which revived public and political attention on Mountbatten-Windsor’s past association with the convicted sex offender. Although his move to Sandringham had been announced in October, he was expected to remain at Royal Lodge until spring.
Instead, the departure was accelerated as renewed allegations and public pressure intensified.
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Thames Valley Police confirmed this week that they are examining claims that Epstein flew a second woman to the UK to have sex with Mountbatten-Windsor. A lawyer for the alleged victim told the BBC the encounter took place in 2010 at Royal Lodge.
The former prince has not publicly responded to the latest allegation. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in his relationship with Epstein.
The claims are separate from those made by Virginia Giuffre, who said she was trafficked to Britain in 2001 to have sex with Andrew when she was 17. Giuffre died by suicide last year.
Royal Lodge, a 30-room property on the Windsor estate managed by the Crown Estate, has been a point of tension between King Charles and his brother for years.
After Charles became king in 2022, he pushed for Andrew to move into a smaller residence. Mountbatten-Windsor resisted, citing a lease on Royal Lodge that runs until 2078. However, pressure intensified in October after lawmakers and the public questioned the favorable terms of the lease on a Crown Estate property—assets that are technically owned by the monarchy but managed for the benefit of taxpayers.
Unlike Windsor properties, the Sandringham Estate is privately owned by the king.
Mountbatten-Windsor’s name appears multiple times in the approximately 3 million pages of U.S. Justice Department documents released last week.
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Among them is correspondence between Epstein and a man believed to be Andrew, in which Epstein offers to arrange a meeting with a 26-year-old Russian woman. The man, signing only as “A,” later suggests dinner in London, either at a restaurant or at Buckingham Palace.
Meanwhile, a separate investigation was also announced into Sun Shaocheng, the former Communist Party secretary of China’s Inner Mongolia region, highlighting the broader global impact of the Epstein document release and related disclosures.