‘Nonetheless thinks he is a hotshot’: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor ‘seeing new girlfriend’ as ex-wife Sarah Ferguson quietly returns to the UK after main fall from grace

The 66-year-old former Duke of York was stripped of his royal titles and compelled out of his longtime dwelling, Royal Lodge, after the information uncovered the extent of his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

He has since been dwelling at Marsh Farm on King Charles III’s personal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

However, in line with award-winning journalist Paula Froelich, Andrew hasn’t precisely been main a solitary existence in his new environment.

“He’s been seeing a (local) woman in Norfolk,” an insider told Froelich.

“It’s very convenient (for him),” a second supply shared.

The former prince, who was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace and stays below investigation by Thames Valley Police, has denied any wrongdoing.

And regardless of his extraordinary fall from royal life, biographer Andrew Lownie claims Andrew’s confidence has apparently remained intact.

“He’s still doing business in the way he did before – he still thinks he’s a hotshot businessman,” Lownie told Froelich on her YouTube channel.

“He’s been staying with people – the papers have actually covered him going to Brittany (France).

“I’d heard that he’d gone to the south of France and was really trying to purchase property there – which does not recommend that he is anxious about going to jail.

“There are stories of him going to Switzerland, even going to the Middle East.”

Andrew was noticed within the south of France close to Cannes and Nice with two girls in August, with Froelich speculating that “one was his ladyfriend”.

Lownie additionally claimed Andrew has been “smuggled out” of Marsh Farm to make discreet visits to his royal siblings at their properties – and doubtlessly to spend time together with his reported new girlfriend.

The claims come as Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, has quietly returned to the UK after reportedly spending months abroad.

According to Lownie, the 66-year-old former Duchess of York is now dwelling alone in a six-bedroom property costing £10,000 a month (about AUD$20,000) in hire.

“I think she’s saved some money – she had various Swiss bank accounts and money offshore, and my understanding is that she has a benefactor from the Middle East who’s paying for her at the moment because clearly she’s paying £10,000 a month for a six-bedroom house just living there on her own,” Lownie said.

“So she hasn’t discovered any classes about extravagance since Prince Andrew’s been defrocked.”

The historian also questioned the timing of Ferguson’s return, drawing parallels with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who last week returned to live in the UK for an “prolonged time period” following six years in the US.

“And why is she again now? Why the week of the Sussexes, do they arrive as a pair? I believe she’s again, just like the Sussexes, as a result of she’s obtained nowhere else to go, and she or he’s itching to get her ft again beneath the desk and work on poor previous King Charles earlier than the ‘horrible’ King William involves energy, and simply see what she will rustle up.”

Ferguson has been widely reported to have spent time with her youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, at her home in Portugal following the birth of Eugenie’s third child, Adelaide Brooksbank, on August 3. 

While both Eugenie, 36, and her older sister Princess Beatrice, 38, are believed to remain close to their mother, Lownie claimed Eugenie’s relationship with her father has become considerably more strained.

“Eugenie continues to be very cross with him, and I believe he is (Andrew) very cross together with her,” he said.

“He’s been saying he feels betrayed by his household in any case he did for them… And that doesn’t actually assist relations between him and his daughters.”

Lownie suggested Beatrice’s relationship with her father was different, adding: “Beatrice is type of rather more ready to associate with him. She’s very rather more below the thumb of Sarah Ferguson.”