By Molly Claire Goddard
8:19am PST, Jan 14, 2026
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While Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is reportedly moving to a smaller home on
King Charles III's Sandringham estate, royal biographer
Robert Jobson thinks the former Duke of York might leave England. "Other disgraced people have gone to the Middle East. Andrew did a lot of business in Bahrain and he's still relatively young," he told
People.
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After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's banishment from royal life due to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the 65-year-old could be ready for a new start. "King Charles III saw the King of Bahrain [Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa] the other day. One never knows — it could be a place where Andrew gets the recognition of being the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, rather than this," Robert Jobson said.
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According to Robert Jobson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's accommodations from The Firm won't suit him in the long term. "He doesn't like the sound of being on the Sandringham estate, I think he wants to go somewhere where he can just get away from everything," he said. "I just can't see him being on an isolated farm in Sandringham."
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, will also be relocating after being thrown out of Royal Lodge. "I have a degree of sympathy for her," Robert Jobson said. "When she was divorced [from Andrew] her financial settlement was not huge, unlike Princess Diana's. And she was introduced to this lifestyle and lived it in a way that almost bamboozled her and has been in incredible debt ever since. She never got the payoff she should have got."
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, have made it clear they're staying loyal to King Charles III after attending Christmas at Sandringham. "It's easy to say this is a snub to their parents, but they would say, 'I'm a royal princess, I'm in line to the throne, I have been invited to attend the King's Christmas celebrations, and you don't turn down the King's invitation,'" Robert Jobson said. "It's not an invitation. It's a command, really."
