But the former Duke of York remained unseen as media gathered around the entrance to the remote farm on the Sandringham Estate where he is reportedly staying.
Numerous vehicles were seen entering and leaving Wood Farm at Wolferton, where Mr Mountbatten-Windsor is now said to be living while renovation work is carried out on nearby Marsh Farm, his permanent new home.
Heavy traffic to Wood Farm included a number of cars and 4x4s as well as builders’ vans and a lorry from a portable toilet hire firm, which arrived with two loos on the back and left with one, suggesting work might be under way at the property.
A 4×4 driving through the gateway to Wood Farm on Wednesday (Image: Chris Bishop)
A Land Rover driving out of Wood Farm (Image: Chris Bishop)
A fuel tanker also pulled into the farm, presumably to top up its heating oil supplies with a cold snap predicted.
Elsewhere life went on in the quiet village on the edge of the marshes, where he is believed to have moved to from Royal Lodge at Windsor on Tuesday evening.
The former royal was not expected to move to Norfolk just yet, but his relocation was apparently speeded up amid renewed scrutiny and public anger over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein following the release of more documents relating to the late paedophile and financier.
Photographers and camera crews were camped outside the entrance to the secluded farm, with its Private No Entry sign next to the church.
Life appeared to be going on as normal in Wolferton, a remote village on the edge of the Sandringham Estate (Image: Chris Bishop)
A fuel tanker arrives at Wood Farm (Image: Chris Bishop)
It is understood the former duke’s new home at Marsh Farm, a few hundred yards away, is not yet fully ready but he is expected to move in by the start of April.
Work appears to have paused at the property in recent days, while the security fence to shield the house from the road has not yet been completed.
A woman who answered the door at a nearby house in Wolferton, speaking anonymously, said she felt it was the wrong location for Andrew to move to and that he should be someone more “secluded”. “I think if he has to come and live here it should be somewhere that’s quite secluded,” she said. “There are houses that belong to the King that he could go to that wouldn’t cause anybody any bother.
“The press are all down there. The villagers don’t like that. It’s a quiet village.”
She suggested a house that was “out in the woods that’s surrounded by trees and no other houses… would have been better.”
She said that Andrew’s new property in Wolferton was “too close to the road” and “you’re always going to have reporters”.
“If he needs to come, he needs to come, but I think there’s better places he could have actually gone,” she said.
Many in the village were reluctant to speak at all, with some saying they could not comment as they worked for the royal estate.
Around two miles away at Sandringham Visitor Centre, members of the public did not speak positively of Andrew’s move.
Abraham Bruin, 83, of West Walton, who used to work in plant nurseries, was visiting the Sandringham estate on Wednesday.
He said: “I’m a little bit flabbergasted myself. If he’s an outcast and living on the estate, he’s not an outcast is he.”
A woman, speaking anonymously, said: “Really he’s going back to luxury, isn’t he? He’s being waited on hand and foot.”
Another woman who was visiting the estate, who also declined to be named, said: “I’m not particularly keen on him. I’m not happy he’s this way. As long as we don’t see him.
“He will be hid away somewhere. He will have all the things he needs. He’s still living in a certain amount of luxury.”
A third woman, who also did not give her name, said she was “not enamoured” that Andrew had moved to the area. “They’re dumping their royal rubbish on us,” she said.
A delivery lorry from a toilet hire firm arrives with two loos on the back (Image: Chris Bishop)
The lorry leaves Wood Farm with a single loo on board, after dropping off the other one (Image: Chris Bishop)
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s move came as police said they were assessing allegations that a woman was sent to the UK by Epstein for a sexual encounter with the former royal.
Lawyers representing the woman have urged the King to contact them over the claims.
Brad Edwards, from the US firm Edwards Henderson, previously told the BBC his client had spent the night with Andrew after being given a tour of Buckingham Palace.
In a statement, Thames Valley Police said: “We are aware of reports about a woman said to have been taken to an address in Windsor in 2010 for sexual purposes.
“We are assessing the information in line with our established procedures.”
Marsh Farm at Wolferton, where work appears to have been paused for now (Image: Chris Bishop)
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who is said to have now moved to Norfolk (Image: PA)
Andrew also features a number of times in documents released by the US Department of Justice on Friday, including images apparently showing him crouched over an unidentified woman in what appears to be Epstein’s New York mansion.
The former prince and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, appear in email exchanges with Epstein, with Andrew appearing to invite him to Buckingham Palace, and Sarah apparently saying: “I am at your service. Just marry me.”
Epstein also appears to introduce Andrew to a woman described by the paedophile as “26, Russian, clevere (sic) beautiful, trustworthy”, while in the same month, Andrew also apparently tells Epstein: “Wish I was still a pet in your family.”
On Tuesday, US vice president JD Vance said he would support efforts to summon Andrew to testify before US lawmakers over his friendship with Epstein.
Mr Vance said: “I saw Keir Starmer said something about this”, adding: “I’m certainly open to it.”
Andrew vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
He was stripped of his royal titles and privileges in October over his relationship with Epstein, who killed himself in an American jail in 2019.