All it’s essential to find out about claims Andrew is making ‘day by day begging calls’ to King Charles

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The strained relationship between the late Queen’s eldest sons comes after the King stripped his brother of titles and privileges and booted him out of Royal Lodge

NEED TO KNOW: Prince Andrew ‘bombards’ King Charles with ‘daily begging calls’ amid fears he could ‘go rogue’

• Prince Andrew is allegedly bombarding King Charles with “daily begging calls” as Palace sources claim the monarch is being effectively “bribed” into maintaining contact.
• The disgraced ex-Duke has been stripped of his royal titles over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. He was recently forced to move from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm, a five-bedroom property on a flood plain near Sandringham.
• Palace insiders reveal there’s “very real anxiety” about how Andrew might react if fully cut off from the royal family. “Charles is, in effect, being pressured into keeping that line open because there’s a lingering fear Andrew could go rogue on the royal family if he feels isolated or backed into a corner,” one source claimed.
• The King continues taking the calls despite finding them “deeply unwelcome” as he “doesn’t feel he has the freedom to shut that door completely”. Sources say the relationship is maintained strategically rather than out of warmth.
• “It’s not a relationship being maintained out of warmth – it’s far more strategic than that,” an insider explained. “There’s a sense that Charles has to manage him carefully.”
• Andrew’s new home has undergone extensive renovations and sits isolated from Norfolk residents by Dersingham Bog, with the ex-Duke consistently denying any wrongdoing despite his February arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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