Shamed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor bombards his older brother King Charles with “daily begging calls”, its alleged. Sources claim the King is effectively being “bribed” into keeping contact with the ex-prince amid fears he could “go rogue” on the Royal Family.
The ongoing calls are said to have become a persistent burden but Charles continues to take them as he “doesn’t feel he has the freedom to shut that door completely”, an insider claimed.
They said: “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. That possibility is something they simply can’t ignore.”
The disgraced ex-Duke was stripped of his royal titles by Charles over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
He was booted out of Royal Lodge in Windsor and this week moved in to his new home at Marsh Farm, which sits on a flood plain two miles away from the King’s Sandringham pad. It is cut off from the rest of Norfolk’s residents by the Dersingham Bog.
A source told Radar there is a “very real anxiety” within the palace about how Andrew might react if he were fully cut off, adding: “That uncertainty is driving a lot of the King’s decisions right now.
“It’s not a relationship being maintained out of warmth – it’s far more strategic than that. There’s a sense that Charles has to manage him carefully.
“If he doesn’t offer at least some level of engagement, even just by taking a call here and there, there’s no predicting how Andrew might respond.
“But privately, he finds those interactions deeply unwelcome – he would much rather not have to deal with him at all. The difficulty is that Andrew isn’t going to disappear quietly.”
Andrew’s new five-bedroom house has undergone months of extensive renovations and includes a main house with two reception rooms, plus several outbuildings.
He was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
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