Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge in a ‘shocking state’ as duke attempts gardening to save money

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poised to leave the Royal Lodge after Charles refused to continue financially carrying his brother’s weight, is trying to pinch a few pennies by developing a green thumb.“It is in a shocking state,” Todd Longstaffe Gowan, the Historic Royal Palaces gardener, told the Daily Mail of the mansion’s worse-for-wear garden.“I won’t be knocking that into shape.

It is impossible. I’ve been at Kensington Palace for 30 years and I think Royal Lodge would be quite impossible.”But despite Andrew’s best efforts, the garden is still looking rough and the flowers that once bloomed on the grounds of Windsor Castle are nowhere to be seen.Instead, the 30-room mansion is surrounded by shrubbery and woodland, insiders say.Inside the residence, a similar thing is taking place.Over the last few weeks, King Charles has reportedly kickstarted the process of removing precious artifacts from Andrew’s home due to maintenance and security concerns.The move means that the former working royal’s property now boasts empty shelves where pricy items were once displayed.