• Kate Middleton and Prince William are not happy about disgraced royal Prince Andrew being their neighbor.
  • There’s concern over running into him in Windsor.
  • Neighbors are currently protesting outside of Andrew’s home, and William wants “a real line to be drawn under” his problem uncle “before [William] becomes king.”

Prince Andrew finally agreed to give up his Duke of York title, but he’s still holed up in his Windsor mansion—where he’s about to be new neighbors with Prince William and Kate Middleton. And they are not pleased.

Royal expert Phil Dampier tells The Sun that Prince William wants “a real line to be drawn under it before he becomes king” and notes that “I don’t think he wants to be living within a couple of miles of someone who’s constantly getting….I mean, today, I think there are demonstrators down there. There are actually protesters outside the house with megaphones, shouting that Andrew should leave his home.”

As for what Kate Middleton thinks, Dampier says that “she will support what William wants to do” but that neither of them want “ongoing scandals coming from other members of the family.”

“I think the public is just seeing day in, day out stories about Andrew holed up in his Windsor home, and William and Kate are living in Windsor,” he explains. “The kids are going to be going to school— it’s just by association. There is a possibility that they would bump into them at various times, but it’s just clearing the decks, trying to get things sorted out, and trying to get this finally resolved before he becomes king. If he was still in Royal Lodge when William and Kate became king and queen, then he would have the problem, and he’d be seen as the one having to deal with it. So, it’s best for all concerned if this gets cleared up, finally, in some way, shape, or form, while Charles is king.“

If Andrew does agree to leave his home (he has an iron-clad lease, so easier said than done), Dampier theorizes that he could “possibly go abroad” and notes that he has a mansion in Abu Dhabi “that was given to him many years ago.” But that would involve him reading the room, and as Dampier puts it, “He’s never read a room at all.”