King Charles III has reportedly forbidden his brother Prince Andrew he can no longer use his private suite of rooms at Buckingham Palace.
British newspapers reported on Thursday that the monarch had followed up on his ban in December on the Duke of York using his office at the 18th-century central London palace.
"The King has made it clear that Buckingham Palace is no place for Prince Andrew," a source told a British tabloid newspaper on Wednesday night. "First his office closed last year and now his sleeping quarters."
The insider said Prince Andrew "loved" his suite at the palace, which he used not only during his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, but as a "bachelor’s pad" after their divorce.
"He brought back a string of new girlfriends to his home in the Palace — even model Caprice. A bachelor’s flat in St James’s Palace doesn’t have the same allure for a single man."
24 January 2023, 17:20 GMT
The Duke of York was dubbed "randy Andy" by tabloid journalists in the 1980s for his string of glamourous girlfriends, including US actress and photographer Koo Stark.
But in 2014, US-born Australian resident Virginia Roberts Giuffre claimed in a Florida court that she had been brought to London in 2001 by Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, at the age of 17 where Andrew had allegedly slept with her.
The Prince later asserted in a TV interview that he had an alibi for the day on which Giuffre Roberts claimed to have met him, but later settled out of court with his accuser for an undisclosed sum of money after she brought a civil case against him in New York.