AMANDA PLATELL: We're all repulsed by pariah Prince Andrew's extravagance and entitlement. There's now a radical step Charles must take...

Three cheers for King Charles after he finally cut off profligate Prince Andrew, withdrawing his annual £1million allowance, having already stopped funding his security detail worth a substantial six-figure sum. Prince Andrew thought he was safe in Royal Lodge for as long as the late Queen was alive But even ‘mummy’ had decided that she had to move him out of the grand property, pictured Not just because the British public long ago grew tired of the disgraced prince and his ex-wife Fergie living in a mansion fit for a king. The late Queen Elizabeth also wanted Andrew out of Royal Lodge, as was damningly revealed in the Mail on Saturday by Robert Hardman in his updated biography, Charles III: New King. ‘It was her plan to move him out, to end the lease for the Sussexes at Frogmore Cottage and to move Andrew in there,’ a former close personal adviser to Elizabeth II told Hardman: ‘Had she lived another year, he would have been out.’ They added: ‘It was mainly a money thing, as she could see it was becoming unsustainable.’ The late Queen surely also appreciated how inappropriate it would appear for the firm to allow this self-indulgent, pointless prince to be living in a vast property, even as her subjects were enduring a devastating post-Covid cost of living crisis and the monarchy had been rocked by the Sussexes’ departure and Harry’s vicious attacks. It is clear that Andrew does not have the finances for the upkeep of Royal Lodge in any case The King should treat his worthless brother as any property owner would an errant tenant While Andy has been sitting on his fat bottom, his sister last year was the hardest working royal, totting up 457 royal engagements and taking up ever more duties following news that both the King and Princess Catherine were suffering from cancer and the impact of that on their public duties.