Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was paid a visit at Sandringham this week amid concerns about his mental wellbeing.
The visit from Prince Edward, the disgraced Andrew’s brother, marked the first time a senior royal had seen Andrew since he moved to West Norfolk.
Sources told the Daily Mail that the trip to his temporary Wood Farm home in Wolferton was “a brotherly welfare check”.
Andrew was paid a wellbeing check at his Sandringham Estate home this week. Picture: Geoff Robinson
Edward and his wife Sophie are reported to be concerned about Andrew’s “fragile state of mind” amid an investigation into whether he committed misconduct in public office.
Thames Valley Police is currently investigating claims that he shared sensitive information with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Meanwhile, Andrew is finally believed to have moved into his permanent Sandringham Estate home at Marsh Farm.
He was reportedly urged to make the permanent move by Edward, who enjoys visiting Wood Farm but was unable to do so over Easter because Andrew was still living there.
A known favourite of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, and the former home of his father Prince Phillip, it is not the first time a royal has been sent to Wood Farm to be kept out of the public eye.
During the early 1900s, the young Prince John was hidden away there by his mother and father, Queen Mary and King George V, aged 11, as he suffered from seizures.