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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their British base of Frogmore Cottage, the couple’s spokesperson has confirmed.
It was earlier reported that the house, within the grounds of Windsor Castle, had been provided to the Duke of York.
A spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan confirmed the information. Buckingham Palace has not commented.
The duke and duchess now dwell in California with their two youngsters, Archie and Lilibet.
They give up life as working royals in 2020 and left the UK shortly afterwards.
Frogmore Cottage, a Grade-II listed 10-bedroom property within the grounds of Windsor Castle in Berkshire, was a present to the royal couple from the late Queen.
Prince Harry and Meghan refurbished the property, owned by the Crown Estate, at an estimated value of £2.4m in 2018-19. The value was initially coated by taxpayers via the Sovereign Grant earlier than being repaid in full by the duke.
They had been reportedly informed to depart the property by Buckingham Palace in January, days after Harry revealed his explosive memoir, Spare.
The e book – which was launched in January and have become the fastest-selling non-fiction e book within the UK since information started in 1998 – included claims Prince Harry was bodily attacked by his brother, the Prince of Wales. He additionally wrote that he and his brother, the Prince of Wales, had begged their father to not marry Camilla, now Queen Consort.
Prince Andrew, the late Queen’s second son, lives within the close by 31-bedroom Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire.
He stepped down as a working royal in 2019 after a controversial Newsnight interview about allegations that he had sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre. He has repeatedly denied the allegations.
In February 2022, he paid an undisclosed sum to settle the civil sexual assault case Ms Giuffre introduced towards him within the US.
Reports in latest weeks, not confirmed by the BBC, advised the King is to chop Andrew’s annual grant which might depart him unable to afford his house’s working prices.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are the newest in a protracted listing of high-profile figures who’ve lived at Frogmore Cottage
The cottage has a wealthy and assorted historical past. Queen Charlotte, spouse of King George III, had it in-built 1792 as a spot for her and her daughters to flee the court docket.
At the time it was trendy for the rich to construct giant houses disguised as idyllic rural cottages.
Surviving family members of Tsar Nicholas II additionally lived there after fleeing to the UK, following the homicide of different relations by Bolsheviks in 1918.
Since World War Two, the cottage is believed to have been used as a house for members of royal family workers, earlier than Prince Harry and Meghan moved in.
