Thursday 22 September 2022 12:08 AM EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will the King keep Andrew handouts? trends now
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Anxious times for Andrew as King Charles takes control of the vast income from the Duchy of Lancaster.
This was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow from which the Queen provided Andrew with an undisclosed annual sum – as well as providing him with help towards his legal fees and settlement with Virginia Giuffre.
Anxious times for Prince Andrew
Whatever Charles decides on Andrew's future status, he is likely to be less generous with Duchy largesse.
Might the disgraced prince settle for a small allowance as Keeper of the Corgis, the Queen's dogs that have been banished to live with Andrew at Royal Lodge?
Should the Queen's pallbearers be gonged for their faultless stewardship of her final journey, they might raise a toast to Prince Philip. He made their job easier. When their predecessors carried Winston Churchill's half-ton coffin away from St Paul's, it was so heavy a pallbearer dislocated his shoulder. This distressed the Queen, who asked Philip to investigate how future state funeral caskets could be made lighter.
