• Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is reportedly being evicted from Royal Lodge and may relocate to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.
  • His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (Fergie), who has lived with him since 2008, allegedly refuses to move with him and is looking for small flats in London instead.
  • Some insiders suggest she might even leave the UK entirely.

Following the Royal Family’s announcement that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor (FKA Prince Andrew) is being evicted from Royal Lodge, sources are suggesting that he could be moving to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk next. However, rumor has it that his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (who’s been living with him since 2008) will not be joining him—and the reported reason makes sense.

Rob Shuter’s #ShuterScoop reported that the former Duchess of York “refuses” to live in “exile” with Andrew and is instead “quietly touring tiny one-bedroom flats across London.” As a source explained, “She’s not leaving the city. Fergie would rather downsize than disappear.”

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A palace aide also weighed in on Fergie’s reported refusal to move to Sandringham, noting that she refuses to “be buried” in the countryside. “She needs London,” they added. “The charity gala circuit, the red carpets, the chatter. Irrelevance terrifies her.”

However! Yet another source claimed Fergie is considering leaving the country all together. Per an insider for the Daily Mail, “She’s always rather lived on the hoof, and aside from her children and grandchildren, there’s not a lot to keep her here. Put it this way, the invitations have dried up overnight.”

And while Fergie is reportedly eager to “move on with her life,” it may be a while yet before she and Andrew actually evacuate Royal Lodge. The same source revealed, “The Amazon deliveries that go up to Royal Lodge are unbelievable. There are rooms full of boxes that haven’t even been opened. It will take weeks, if not months, to shift all their shit out.”

While Fergie previously claimed that she lived with Andrew because the “Yorks are a united family,” it seems those days are done.

“There are many who have almost admired her dogged loyalty to her ex-husband and family,” another Daily Mail source said. “She has always found a way to bounce back from the many public scandals she has faced over the years, normally with a well-paid public mea culpa and a promise to change her ways. That’s unlikely to happen this time.”