
In the quiet shadows of Windsor, a disgraced royal has withdrawn from the world entirely.
Prince Andrew, the former Duke of York, is spending what sources describe as the last moments of his 22-year tenure at Royal Lodge in a state of self-imposed isolation; refusing newspapers, avoiding public scrutiny and, by all accounts, living in what insiders call 'his own bubble' as the machinery of his expulsion from one of the royal residences gathers pace.