Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
A visitor to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s new home has exposed the horrid smell the disgraced former prince is now forced to inhale every day.
The disgraced former prince was first booted from the Royal Lodge back in early February, months after King Charles II stripped him of his princely title.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was cast out to Wood Farm on Sandringham, but that was only his temporary abode before moving to his permanent place of exile, Marsh Farm.
Though the ex-duke was not formally charged following his arrest on February 19, it appears the palace is bent on imposing bail-like conditions on the 66-year-old.
He had spent months totally isolated from his family, with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson nowhere to be seen, and his princess daughters Beatrice and Eugenie steering clear of him.
That changed earlier this week when Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was visited by his brother Prince Edward, who was said to have a stern word with him about the move to Marsh Farm — which the disgraced former prince was said to be resisting.
He is understood to have spent his first night at Marsh on Easter Monday.
Now, a journalist who visited Sandringham just before the former prince moved to Marsh Farm has detailed the smell that overwhelms the property.
Julia Banim, writing for The Mirror, said the “smell of wet mud” took her “aback” as she looked around the estate.
It’s certainly lacking in grandeur, but Ms Banim said it also offers little privacy, with the windows to the front rooms just a “stone’s throw away” from the country lane the house sits beside.
Though Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has been heavily scrutinised in the past, it was toward the end of 2025 when he faced real wrath.
Following the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was again cast into the light.
On October 30, he was stripped of his princely title. Following years of advocacy, the Epstein files began to be released by the US Department of Justice on December 19.
The files, a mixture of email communications and other documents and images, were released in waves.
But it wasn’t until the January 30 release, which contained emails that suggest the former prince may have shared confidential trade information with Epstein, that police become involved.
Nearly three weeks later Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on the suspicion of misconduct in public office and questioned for 11 hours before he was driven back to his isolation on Wood Farm .
He has not been charged, though investigations remain ongoing. Most reports indicate that the palace was blindsided by the arrest, though some commentators argue that there is no way Buckingham would not have been told.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has always maintained his innocence in relation to Epstein’s trafficking.
