After months of uncertainty, it has now been confirmed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will move out of the Royal Lodge before the end of the month.
The news follows a removal van being spotted at the property this week.
A source exclusively told Hello! that Sarah Ferguson will not be joining him at his new home on the Sandringham Estate.
“Andrew and Sarah have to move out by the 25[th of] January,” they said. “She has stood by him all these years but is now ready to spread her wings.”
When is Andrew due to move out of the Royal Lodge?
The source continued to reveal that the former Duchess of York also doesn’t plan to move with one of her daughters.
“She won’t be moving into Beatrice’s Cotswolds home though. Eugenie’s home in Portugal is a contender while she finds somewhere,” they continued.
“Andrew has stopped getting newspapers or reading anything. He’s in his own bubble. The girls do see him. Sarah is still very upset at everything that has happened.”
Initially, there was speculation that he would relocate in the New Year, with the Daily Mail reporting that it was moved back to Easter.
Andrew, 65, and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, both relinquished his royal titles after coming under increasing pressure due to their connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
However, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie have retained their titles.
Where will Andrew live?
“Whether he has a home to move into is another question,” royal editor Rebecca English wrote earlier this month for the Daily Mail.
“While I understand Marsh Farm at Sandringham, which was recently mooted as a possibility, is destined to be his new home, it is considered ‘quite small’ and needs a ‘lot of work doing on it’ to make it habitable and secure.
“And this has raised questions over whether this work can be completed by the deadline.”
The article suggested that it’s possible that he could be “homeless for a short period of time”, and a source added that he might need to find another option in the “interim”.
Rebecca also revealed that he wouldn’t be living abroad.
Andrew was forced to surrender his lease on the Royal Lodge in Windsor, and will move to a property on King Charles’ private estate, Sandringham, in Norfolk.
The privately-owned estate is more than 20,000 acres and features around 150 properties, and now, more details have emerged about which home Andrew will move into.
According to The Sun, rundown Marsh Farm is the latest contender for Andrew’s new home, quite a downsize from the 30-room Royal Lodge.
The property is located seven miles west of King Charles’ Sandringham House and reportedly requires extensive renovation work.
The rural estate has been considered a haunted place for other members of the royal family.
His grandfather, King George VI, and great-grandfather, George V, and his brother, Prince Albert Victor, died there.
Prince Philip also moved there after he retired from public life.
Andrew’s new home will allegedly be privately funded by the King. Buckingham Palace reportedly will not confirm any details on Andrew’s new abode because he is a “private citizen” and Sandringham is a “private” estate.
The former working farm includes a main house with two reception rooms and one kitchen, as well as multiple outbuildings.
Because Sandringham is a privately owned estate, there will not be any pressure over Andrew’s rental agreement, after his “peppercorn” rent terms at the Royal Lodge came to light.
“Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor seems to be kicking his heels,” royal author Robert Jobson told HELLO in December 2025.
“The disgraced royal has made it clear to the King and courtiers who sent him packing, that he is going nowhere fast.”
He claimed that the delay is allegedly due to the “logistics” of downsizing his belongings from the 30-room mansion to Charles’ estate.
Andrew and Sarah were absent from the royal Christmas celebrations at Sandringham, but their daughters, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, spent it with the family.
Andrew’s fall from grace
On October 30, Andrew and Sarah were given notice to vacate the 30-room mansion on January 31, 2026, and find alternative accommodation.
In a statement, Buckingham Palace said Andrew’s former residence, which he called home for more than 20 years, “provided him with legal protection to continue in residence”.
“Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation,” it said.
According to the BBC, he hosted the late sex offender, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Harvey Weinstein at the Royal Lodge in 2006, before Princess Beatrice’s 18th birthday celebration at Windsor Castle.
This was two months after a US arrest warrant was issued for Epstein for the sexual assault of a minor.
According to The Times, Andrew had a lease on the Royal Lodge, which didn’t run out until 2078, for which he paid £1 million ($2 million AUD).
Under the lease agreement, Andrew allegedly only had to pay “one peppercorn” of rent if demanded, essentially meaning he was living there for free as long as renovation works were completed.
King Charles is reportedly set to face a public inquiry next year over Andrew’s lease agreement, in the hopes of securing “value for money for the taxpayer”.
Despite the King cutting off his funding last year, Andrew has accumulated his own wealth through business connections with China and the Gulf States, and a project with a Dutch start-up company.
Before this, he was also pictured on a pheasant shoot with Epstein and Maxwell at the estate in 2000.
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