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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor moved out of the Royal Lodge, a grand royal residence on the Windsor estate, on Monday night.
The disgraced former duke now lives on a property on the slightly smaller Sandringham Estate, a royal compound that the king personally owns.
The former Duke of York will call the Marsh Farm his permanent home and will pay the cost, according to the BBC.
Mountbatten-Windsor will briefly return to Windsor to collect the remaining of his belongings.
In October, the ex-prince was stripped of his royal titles and ordered to vacate the Royal Lodge.
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A look at Royal Lodge in Windsor
The Royal Lodge is a Grade II listed building in Windsor that has 30 rooms, including seven bedrooms.
The lavish mansion is made up of a central section standing at three storeys tall, with two-storey wings.
The current building structure dates back to the 19th century and was later expanded in the 1930s by the then Duke of York, also the future King George VI.
The residence was previously occupied by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother from 1952 until she died in 2002, aged 101.
Mountbatten-Windsor has lived in the 30-room Georgian mansion, which sits on 98 acres of land west of London, since 2003.
Marsh Farm, once described by royal insiders as ‘modest’, has a kitchen, two reception rooms, and various outbuildings and stables. Sarah Ferguson will not be joining her ex-husband.
The move comes after new disclosures showed the extent of his closeness with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.
Among the three million files released on Friday by the US Department of Justice was a 2010 email exchange between ‘A’ and Epstein.
The businessman asks: ‘What time would you like me and [redacted]?
‘We will also need/have private time.’
In a response, an email signed off by ‘A’ suggested: ‘Alternatively, we should have dinner at Buckingham Palace and lots of privacy.’
Photographs also show Mountbatten-Windsor in compromising positions, including kneeling over a woman lying on the ground.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Mountbatten-Windsor to testify before a congressional committee in the US over his dealings with Epstein.
He said: ‘Anybody who has got information should be prepared to share that information in whatever form they are asked to do that.’
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