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Pressure has mounted on the royal family for Andrew to vacate the 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park amid the continuing controversy over his links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the posthumous publication of the memoirs of the prince’s sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre. MORE: Charles addresses Andrew’s royal $57m feud According to fresh reports, the public accounts committee has confirmed it is writing to the crown estate and the Treasury after it emerged Andrew paid £1 million ($2 million) for the lease of the property in 2003, and was required to undertake £7.5 million ($15 million) refurbishment costs, but that he has since paid “one peppercorn” of rent. The Telegraph has reported that Buckingham Palace is desperate to increase pressure on Andrew to voluntarily leave the residence. It’s believed Andrew is unable to be evicted due to a “cast iron” lease agreement with the crown estate. Royal sources have seen a “renewed determination” to force him out, added the insider. Should he be forced out of Royal Lodge, under the terms of the lease he would be entitled to £558,000 ($1.14 million). MORE: Wild reason Charles can’t kick Andrew out It comes as it emerged that Andrew reportedly urged his staff and friends to “arrange girls” for him, leading to him having sex with women “he didn’t realise were prostitutes”. In his explosive new biography, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, author Andrew Lownie claims that the disgraced royal begged his inner circle – including his taxpayer-funded personal protection officers (PPOs) – to find women he could date. “He would spy out an attractive ballerina at the Royal Ballet and then send his [PPO] … to invite her to meet the prince. Other variations included sending aides to invite girls to his table at [London nightclub] Chinawhite or come to his hotel suite when abroad,” wrote Lownie. “Andrew’s staff often requested that attractive women be invited to events, with a private secretary specifying, ‘He likes blondes’ — to which one consul replied, ‘I’m a diplomat, not a pimp.’” According to Lownie, while Andrew was regularly travelling around the world in his role as the UK’s special trade envoy, it was “rumoured” that he “brought women with him”. He added, “He liked to stay in hotels rather than the [Royal] Residence as it gave him more independence in whom he saw, whether women or businessmen. “Stories are told of escorts, masquerading as professional women, being provided that he could pick up.”
