King is asking the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to move out of Frogmore so Prince Andrew can move in

The King has asked the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to move out of Frogmore Cottage for good so that Prince Andrew can move in, The Telegraph knows.

Talks between Buckingham Palace and the couple have been said to have been going on for some time but have recently picked up momentum.

A friend of the Sussexes suggested the decision to move her from Frogmore was not welcomed by the couple, noting this “They have made this place their home”.

It goes without saying that this is how they see the cottage “The only place that’s safe” for her and her children in the UK, not least amid the ongoing row between Prince Harry and the Home Office over his decision to withdraw his security detail.

It comes as the Duke of York feared he would be forced out of the Royal Lodge by King Charles, who is on course to cut spending.

The Duke is expected to have his annual pocket money of £249,000 cut from April and has told friends it will mean he will no longer be able to maintain the 98-acre Windsor estate.

However, the king does not intend to leave his brother “homeless or destitute,” a royal source told The Telegraph, hinting that alternative arrangements have been made for his housing.

Frogmore Cottage is much smaller than Royal Lodge, a 30-room manor house in Windsor Great Park that has been the Duke’s home since 2003.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex lost their taxpayer-funded police protection after quitting as senior working royals. In July, Prince Harry won the right to challenge a Home Office decision not to give him automatic police protection when in the UK.

The 37-year-old Duke has argued that he inherited a risk at birth and that he, his wife Meghan and their children Archie, two, and Lilibet, one, should be granted permanent protection in the UK regardless of their status as such working royals.

Asking for a judicial review, he said he was denied a “clear and full explanation” of the composition of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures, also known as Ravec, and others involved in the decision to overturn his been security status.

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Ravec said at the time that the Sussexes’ plan to live abroad as private individuals “did not readily” fit into any category of his framework.

However, it recognized that the Duke occupied a “special and unusual position” and that he might need protection in certain circumstances, which will have to be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

The Sussex spokeswoman could not be reached for comment.