Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has no room for his 60-strong teddy bear collection at his new home in Sandringham after being booted from the Royal Lodge.
The disgraced former duke, who was stripped of his royal titles in November, has been embroiled in scandal due to his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Disturbing photos released by the US’s Department of Justice as part of the Epstein Files appeared to show Andrew crouching on all fours over a female on the floor.
And more recently, ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged authorities to interview the former prince as part of a new probe into Epstein and his ‘Lolita Express’ private jet.
Earlier today the disgraced ex-royal was spotted travelling from Marsh Farm on the monarch’s private estate in Sandringham, which is set to be his new home.
However his beloved collection of more than 60 stuffed animals will not be making the move from Windsor with him, according to German news outlet BILD.
Andrew is said to have only taken a single teddy to his new home with the rest of his stuffed toys, as well as other belongings and furniture, placed in storage ‘for practical reasons’.
And amid his forced move from the Grade II-listed mansion in Windsor, the former duke had been clinging to his much-loved teddy bear collection, an insider previously told Heatworld.
‘He’s completely anthropomorphized them, to the point that he’s convinced the move out of Royal Lodge is going to be hard on them because, as he says, it’s their home too,’ the source said in December.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘(pictured in 2017) has no room for his collection of more than 60 stuffed bears in his new home, German outlet BILD has claimed
It is currently unclear whether placing them in storage will be temporary or permanent due to a lack of space at Marsh Farm in Sandringham (stock image)
‘It really seems like being forced to move has sent him into a full-on meltdown because he keeps telling people the bears won’t cope with the change, it’s like he’s transferring his own emotions onto them, the way a little kid would.’
Andrew’s alleged affinity with his soft toy collection was also illustrated in Netflix’s film Scoop, which retold his infamous 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maithlis.
In one moment, during the hour-long film dozens of teddy bears appeared to be piled up on his bed at Buckingham Palace.
It remains unclear if his collection will be temporarily placed in a London warehouse or whether it will be a permanent home due to a lack of space at Marsh Farm.
For the last 10 days, Andrew has been living at Wood Farm in Sandringham, where he is expected to remain until April.
Marsh Farm which is far less private than Wood Farm because it is located beside a private road is still undergoing extensive renovations to make it ready for his move in.
Both properties are privately owned by the King who inherited the 20,000-acre Sandringham estate from his late mother.
Sources had suggested that Andrew had been lobbying his brother to try and get permission to make his forever home at Wood Farm, due to its greater privacy.
Andrew pictured leaving Royal Lodge on February 2. He has not been spotted in public since
Marsh Farm on the Sandringham estate, where Andrew is set to be exiled
Removal vans seen outside Royal Lodge, the former Duke’s old home, on February 4
Entrance to Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate in Wolferton, which is reported to be serving as interim accommodation for Andrew
A Waitrose van was spotted making a food delivery at Wood Farm last Friday
Earlier this week, an insider said the former prince is ‘lonely and bored’, adding that he can’t even go for a ride because his horses have not yet been moved to Norfolk.
Wood Farm has often been used by a quiet retreat by members of the Royal family, away from the formalities of Sandringham House.
It was also the retirement home of Andrew’s late father Prince Philip from when he stepped down from public duties in 2017 until he moved to Windsor during the Covid pandemic in March 2020.
It comes after the Daily Mail revealed an email from sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed the infamous photo of Virginia Giuffre and Andrew is real.
The disgraced duke had long disputed the authenticity of the image of him in intimate contact with Ms Giuffre when she was just 17.
And his suggestion that the damning 2001 picture may have been faked was central to the defence he tried to put over in his disastrous Newsnight interview.
However, the email from Maxwell stated ‘for the record as fact’ that she had not just introduced Andrew to Ms Giuffre, but the image was taken in her home that same night. The former prince has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile today, Dame Vera Baird the former Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, called for police to ‘start properly investigating’ Andrew’s links with Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew features a number of times in the Epstein files, including images apparently showing him crouching over an unidentified woman in what appears to be Epstein’s New York mansion
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she previously raised the disgraced royal with the Metropolitan Police, but was told ‘there wasn’t much to go on’ for UK investigators after the alleged criminality linked to Epstein had mostly occurred abroad.
Dame Vera said the situation had ‘changed very radically’ in light of new evidence – and references in the Epstein files to Stansted had been ‘absolutely new to me’.
She also referred to an email from Ghislane Maxwell which appeared to confirm the infamous photograph of Andrew with his late accuser Virginia Giuffre was real.
Dame Vera said: ‘All of that reinforces the position I held when I was victims’ commissioner – that it is time to investigate this and that we look quite odd if we don’t.’
Also today, Labour’s Sarah Owen, chair of the Commons Women and Equalities Committee, said: ‘Parliament is rightly focusing its attention on Peter Mandelson but, along with accusations of other heinous crimes during his time as trade envoy to Singapore, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong in 2010, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor passed extremely sensitive material on to Epstein and his accomplices.
‘Isn’t it time that, as well as Peter Mandelson, we called on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to answer to both the police and to Parliament?’
Cabinet Office minister Chris Ward replied: ‘Everyone in this House has been sickened and dismayed at the revelations from all of the Epstein papers that have come through, and in relation to what (Ms Owen) just said, obviously that is outside the scope of this humble address, and that is a matter for the Palace.’
It comes as Thames Valley Police said yesterday that it held discussions with specialists from the Crown Prosecution Service about allegations that Andrew shared confidential reports from his role as the UK’s trade envoy with sex offender Epstein.
Earlier yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson told journalists they were ‘in close contact’ with both the Metropolitan and Thames Valley police, but have not been asked for formal advice yet.
The Daily Mail has approached Buckingham Palace for comment.
