By Molly Claire Goddard
8:34am PST, Feb 11, 2026
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After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was quickly moved from Royal Lodge to Sandringham following the U.S. Department of Justice's release of more files relating to
Jeffrey Epstein, a source claimed that staffers are unhappy. "They've been told they don't have to serve Andrew or work for him if they feel uncomfortable," an insider told
The Sun. "There is already quite a list saying no thanks. There is understandably a lot of disquiet, as he is now a total pariah."
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While Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor hasn't officially relocated to his smaller Marsh Farm home on the estate, The Firm fears he'll refuse to leave the larger Wood Farm property. "There is also a worry that once he gets comfortable at Wood Farm while Marsh Farm is being finished, they will never get him out again," the source said.
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When King Charles III evicted Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from Royal Lodge and stripped him of his titles over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the 65-year-old lost his large staff. "No one wanted to go to Sandringham to work for him [Andrew]. It's in the middle of nowhere," the source said. "People who have been with him for years are off. It will likely be a skeleton staff at best. It's possible for the first time in his life he will have to open the front door to people himself."
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It's not shocking that royal employees aren't keen on working for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. According to author
Tom Quinn — who wrote
Yes Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants — past staffers thought the former Duke of York was "
bossy" and acted "like a classic school bully."
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With the new shocking pictures of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Jeffrey Epstein files, expert
Richard Fitzwilliams believes the royal family wants to bury its head in the sand. "These photos of Andrew with an unidentified woman in the files linked to the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, coming after a recently released photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lying across four women at Sandringham, will bring more embarrassment for the royal family," he told
Daily Express. "We don't know when they were taken or the context and he has denied all wrongdoing, but they will seem extremely d******, especially to a public, where, in the latest YouGov poll, he [Andrew] has only 6% support."
