Moving day for Andrew as removal trucks depart Royal Lodge for Sandringham - as new neighbours 'less than impressed'
Several large trucks were seen departing the royal residence on Wednesday with Andrew avoiding the cameras as the fallout from his links to Epstein rages on
Removal trucks were seen departing Andrew's former Royal Lodge residence amid suggestions that Sandringham villagers are less than impressed by the fervour surrounding their newest neighbour's arrival.
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Andrew remained out of sight on Wednesday as a series of white vans and lorries departed the gates of the Royal Lodge in Windsor in the direction of the royals' Sandringham Estate.
It comes as police continue to investigate claims that an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein was sent to the UK for a sexual encounter with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2010.
The revelations have led to the former Prince being kicked out of the Royal Lodge, with one woman's lawyer claiming in recent days that she was trafficked by Epstein to the former Prince's Royal Lodge residence in Windsor, Berkshire.
Press photographers and TV crews gathered near the entrance to a driveway to Wood Farm Cottage, Sandringham, where Andrew is reported to be staying temporarily, on Wednesday.
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The impending arrival of Andrew turned the usually quiet lane in the village of Wolferton, by St Peter church, into a gridlocked road lined with parked cars, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
A woman who answered the door at a house in Wolferton, speaking anonymously, said she felt it was the wrong location for Andrew to move to and that he should be someone more “secluded”.
“I think if he has to come and live here it should be somewhere that’s quite secluded,” she said.
“There are houses that belong to the King that he could go to that wouldn’t cause anybody any bother.
“The press are all down there. The villagers don’t like that.
“It’s a quiet village.”
She suggested a house that was “out in the woods that’s surrounded by trees and no other houses… would have been better”.
It comes as another royal source told the Mail Online: "The sight of him plastered on the front pages out riding his horse or driving in his car past photographers in Windsor, amid the continued dripping poison of the Epstein files was just too much."
"He had to be removed from the public eye."
It is understood Andrew's new home, close to Marsh Farm, is not fully ready, with the royal expected to move in by the start of April.
Lawyers representing the alleged victim have urged King Charles to contact them following the claims.
The woman is not British and was in her 20s at the time of the alleged incident.
She claims she spent the night with Andrew before being given a "tour" of Buckingham Palace the next day.
Meanwhile, the shamed former prince has been evicted from the 30-room Windsor mansion after it was agreed that he would leave last year.
King Charles has reportedly ordered his brother out of the Crown Estate property earlier than expected after the new backlash from the Epstein Files released last Friday.
A Thames Valley Police spokesperson has told LBC: "We are aware of reports about a woman said to have been taken to an address in Windsor in 2010 for sexual purposes.
"We are assessing the information in line with our established procedures. We take any reports of sexual crimes extremely seriously and encourage anyone with information to come forward.
"At this time, these allegations have not been reported to Thames Valley Police by either the lawyer or their client."
The woman's lawyer, Brad Edwards, said: "We’re talking about at least one woman who was sent by Jeffrey Epstein over to Prince Andrew.
"And she even had, after a night with Prince Andrew, a tour of Buckingham Palace."
Andrew is understood to have been evicted from the property he has resided in since 2002 - and has been temporarily moved into Wood Farm Cottage on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
The ramshackle home, where Andrew's late father Prince Philip spent his retirement, is understood to be a stopgap until the nearby Marsh Farm is prepared for the disgraced royal.
A friend told The Sun: “He had planned to cling on at Royal Lodge a little longer but with the latest batch of Epstein files it was made clear to him that it was time to go.
“Leaving was so humiliating for him that he chose to do it under the cover of darkness.
“He didn’t want to have a big emotional goodbye even though Royal Lodge is a place where he had so many family memories.
“Theoretically he could have stayed until Marsh Farm was ready but the headlines were only getting worse. Also, the fact he’s been seen driving around Windsor laughing and looking like he hasn’t a care in the world hasn’t gone down well with the Royal Household.”
The latest claims make the woman the second to allege she was trafficked to Andrew by Epstein, after the late abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre, 41, died by suicide and was found at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia, last April, where she had been living for the past few years.
Andrew has always vehemently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and denied having ever met Ms Giuffre.
He has not publicly responded to the second set of allegations.
Andrew was stripped of his titles by the King last year after the posthumous publication of a book from Ms Giuffre, who alleged she was trafficked by Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell when she was 17.
The former prince paid millions of pounds to Ms Giuffre in 2022 to settle a civil court claim in the US without admitting liability.
Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson appear frequently throughout the three million documents released by the US Department of Justice.
Being named in the files does not amount to a suggestion of wrongdoing.