In the general concept, "royal" is a place where family affection is weak, which is why the emperor is called "lonely" and "widow". The headlines on the front page of the British "Sun" and "Daily Mail" on February 19 local time seem to verify this ancient statement.
According to reports, Britain's King Charles III is making his second brother Prince Andrew tremble, and the king will cancel the nearly 250,000 pounds (about 2.06 million yuan) annual subsidy given by the late Queen Elizabeth II to her son Prince Andrew, which will cause the 62-year-old prince to have no money to bear the cost of repairing the royal residence, which is equivalent to "evicting" Prince Andrew from his 30 million pound (about 250 million yuan) mansion. Was King Charles III a little too "ruthless" with his own brother?
Here's the thing. The "notorious" Prince Andrew is currently living with his ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, in the "Royal Cottage", which although called "The Cottage", is actually a veritable mansion with a long history.
The cottage covers 98 acres (about 0.40 square kilometers), which is a large area, equivalent to 74 full football fields. The "cottage" has a total of 30 customers and its own dedicated swimming pool. Located in the Great Park of Sha Sa, the cottage was first built in the 17th century during the English Civil War. The penultimate owner of the cottage was the late Queen Elizabeth, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, who lived here from 1952 until her death in 2002.
After the Queen Mother's death, Prince Andrew signed a 75-year lease on the cottage for £1 million since 2008, and although he had divorced Sarah by then, the two still live together. So, since then, Prince Andrew has lived in the royal cottage with his ex-wife with his two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, until now.
According to the contract, Prince Andrew is responsible for the repair of the historical property, and so far Prince Andrew has spent £7.5 million to repair the house.
American financial tycoon Epstein Jeffrey's prison suicide business spread the Prince Andrew scandal around the world, although the 17-year-old American girl Virginia Roberts Gifrey canceled the lawsuit against Prince Andrew after receiving millions of pounds of "settlement fees" to avoid a larger royal scandal, Queen Elizabeth II still announced that Prince Andrew would withdraw from all public events and revoke his royal title, and "cut seats" with him in public.
Of course, this changed Prince Andrew's status and made him "faceless", but "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", and ordinary people do not have to worry about Prince Andrew's daily material life. In fact, he is still "rich." Both the Queen and Prince Philip left him a large inheritance when they died, and the Queen has been allocating money from the monarch's fund to Prince Andrew as his living expenses.
Previously, people did not know how much money this "living expenses" had, but according to today's "Sun" and "Daily Mail", this money is 249,000 pounds (about 2.05 million yuan) per year. Prince Andrew could have used the money to pay for repairs to the royal residence.
However, according to two reports, King Charles III, who decided to "streamline" the royal family, wanted to cancel the money given to his second brother. At present, Prince Andrew's income is only as a "pension" for naval retirees, without which Prince Andrew believes that it is almost equivalent to "expelling" him from the royal mansion, and senior members of the royal family are also reported to have said in a non-joking tone, "We will kick you out".
The Sun said the old prince is panicking now, and he is closely watching the way his nephew Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle make money to see if he can learn from it.
—This news sounds scary. The way Hamei makes money is to denigrate the royal family, is the old prince also going to go down this path?
Source: theSun, DAILYMAIL, BING
Editor: Zhang Xiao