AMANDA PLATELL: We’re all repulsed by pariah Prince Andrew’s extravagance and entitlement. There’s now a radical step Charles must take…

Three cheers for King Charles after finally cutting off the profligate Prince Andrew and withdrawing his £1 million annual allowance, having already stopped funding his security service worth a substantial six-figure sum.

He was right to withdraw the royal sponsor’s financial support. But now it’s time for the king to go further – and show real courage.

He should serve his arrogant, entitled younger brother an eviction notice to kick him out of the 30-room Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park for good and send him to the much smaller home that Harry and Meghan have left: Frogmore Cottage.

Every day he stays at Royal Lodge is a stain on the monarchy.

But even ‘mom’ had decided she had to move him out of the large building as pictured

Not just because the British public long ago got tired of the disgraced prince and his ex-wife Fergie living in a mansion fit for a king.

The late Queen Elizabeth also wanted Andrew out of the Royal Lodge, as was scathingly revealed in the Mail on Saturday by Robert Hardman in his updated biography, Charles III: New King. New Court. The inner story.

He may have been the Queen’s favorite son, but even ‘Mum’ had decided a year before her death that she had to move him out of the grandeur of Royal Lodge and into Frogmore Cottage, which is also in Windsor Great Park.

The irony is that Prince Andrew thought he was safe in the Royal Lodge as long as the late Queen was alive and footing the bill for his huge security staff and his lavish spending, but despite her obvious affection for him, even she had been in the know. how bad it was for her son to still enjoy such generosity.

‘Her plan was to move him out, end the Sussexes’ lease at Frogmore Cottage and move Andrew there,’ a former personal adviser to Elizabeth II told Hardman: ‘If she had lived another year he would have been. out.’

They added: ‘It was mainly a money issue as she saw it becoming unsustainable.’

The late Queen also no doubt realized how inappropriate it would seem for the firm to allow this self-indulgent, senseless prince to live in a huge property, even as her subjects faced a devastating post-Covid cost of living crisis and the monarchy faced a devastating crisis had gone through. rocked by the Sussexes’ departure and Harry’s vicious attacks.

Photos of Royal Lodge show that it has since fallen into disrepair, with cracks in the walls

The Royal Lodge is so grand that George VI and the late Queen Mother lived there after the abdication in 1936, and she cherished it as her private home until her death in 2002.

Perhaps the late queen was still sad after saving Andrew by reportedly contributing to the approximately £12 million he paid to settle his sex abuse lawsuit with one of his former friend Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre – claims he denies.

Either way, it seems she was as disgusted as all of us were – and still are – by Andrew’s extravagance and sense of entitlement.

It is unbelievable that after all he has done to the family and after being stripped of royal duties and his official HRH title, he still lives in the Royal Lodge as his right. I also find it absurd that a man so dishonored that he cannot show his face in polite company or wear military uniforms for ceremonial events should still be eighth in line to the throne.

What right does this self-pitying snob, who spends his time watching TV in a darkened room and practicing his golf swing, have to have to stay on site in a property worth at least £30 million? After all, his sister, Princess Anne, likes to make do with Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire, which is worth around £6 million in comparison.

It is clear that Andrew does not have the finances to maintain Royal Lodge in any case

The king must treat his worthless brother as any property owner would treat an erring tenant

While Andy was sitting on his fat bum, his sister was the hardest working royal last year, with 457 royal engagements and an increasing number of tasks to take on following the news that both the King and Princess Catherine were suffering from cancer and the impact on their public duties .

It is clear that Andrew does not have the finances to maintain Royal Lodge in any case. Photos of the exterior this week showed damp, moss-covered walls and bits of plaster peeling off.

Andrew’s assurances that he can maintain the estate, with a combination of money left to him by the Queen and his own commercial activities, are no longer accepted in royal circles.

Firstly, insiders say that the inheritance left to him by his mother has long been spent. Second, given his infamy after associating with Epstein and taking trips on the convicted pedophile’s private jet, very few self-respecting businesspeople seem willing to deal with him.

Now that King Charles has reportedly read him the riot act and cut him off, he can no longer use his royal position for profit as he once did.

And yet he still doesn’t get it. He is said to have informed the monarch that he would ‘remain at Royal Lodge regardless of any ultimatum’.

The king must now up the ante and treat his worthless brother as any property owner would treat an errant tenant. He would have to serve him with an eviction notice under section 8 of the Housing Act 1988.

In 1982, Prince Andrew was riding high after distinguishing himself as a helicopter pilot as part of the Royal Navy task force dispatched to the Falklands to drive out the Argentine invaders.

He was rightly considered a hero at the time. But now, due to his own poor judgment, his association with a criminal like Epstein and his inability to realize that he is no longer a valued member of the royal family, he is a pariah.

I have a suggestion for Charles. If Andrew continues to play due to his departure from Royal Lodge and Frogmore refuses, send him to one of the many vacant cottages on the Balmoral Estate. He can spend his days watching TV in a darkened room above – and, when he gets upstairs, playing golf at Scotland’s famous Old Course at St Andrews.

That is, if the respected golf club would want it.