LONDON – Prince William threatened to remove the titles of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie unless they pressured their disgraced father to move out of Royal Lodge, it has been claimed.
Emily Maitlis, the broadcaster who grilled Prince Andrew in his infamous Newsnight interview in 2019, claimed the Prince of Wales may have met with the princesses to give them the ultimatum last week.
It comes after their parents, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, are understood to have finally agreed to move out of Royal Lodge, the mansion they have shared since 2008, amid scrutiny over their ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaking on The News Agents podcast, Maitlis discussed the media circus that erupted outside Royal Lodge tomorrow night after journalists were tipped off about a possible development in the Prince Andrew scandal.
Hinting at what it could have been about, she said: “There was a question over whether there had been, earlier in the day, a meeting between Prince William and the princesses, Beatrice and Eugenie, saying you guys have to get your dad to move out of Royal Lodge otherwise we will start re-examining the state of your own titles.
“They are at the moment allowed to be princesses, but there was a bit of pressure, we understand, being put on the princesses to say this is going to happen. Obviously, you can see why Andrew as a father would want to keep their daughters happy and keep their titles in place come what may.
“What we learnt was going to happen on Thursday was that Charles, fresh from the Vatican and his audience with the Pope, was going to come via Royal Lodge to be seen in other words reading the riot act to his brother.”
She said journalists had earlier in the day been tipped off by the Palace that there ‘may be passing traffic’ outside Royal Lodge, but further details were unclear. Maitlis added: “Nobody was going to film the conversation or see him stepping out the car but there was going to be the moment caught on camera of King Charles’s car heading to Royal Lodge.
“What happened, I understand, was that the Palace then got very nervous and when they saw the choppers and helicopters, they thought this has all got too big, this has got out of control, they cancelled the whole thing. The King just went straight home and never came by.”
Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.
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