{"id":409142,"date":"2026-02-05T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:02:09","slug":"sandringham-staff-strike-over-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409142\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandringham staff &#8216;strike&#8217; over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  This week, the former Duke of York moved to his new home in Sandringham from his Windsor mansion amid the release of new files relating to Jeffrey Epstein.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood that he has relocated to Wood Farm Cottage on the King\u2019s estate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A Land Rover driving out of Wood Farm (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A national newspaper has reported that &#8220;his move has caused revolt among royal servants at Sandringham despite only arriving on Monday night&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Staff members at Sandringham estate have reportedly gone on &#8220;strike&#8221; amid the former duke&#8217;s move.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A source told The Sun that the number of staff who are refusing to work for him is already a \u201clong list\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is staying temporarily at Sandringham\u2019s Wood Farm cottage before moving next door to his permanent home, Marsh Farm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former duke\u2019s new home is not yet fully ready, but he is expected to move in by the start of April.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Marsh Farm, the permanent cottage that he will move into in April (Image: Chris Bishop)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another source told The Sun: \u201cThey\u2019ve been told they don\u2019t have to serve Andrew or work for him if they feel uncomfortable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere is already quite a list saying no thanks. There is understandably a lot of disquiet as he is now a total pariah.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBut there is also a worry that once he gets comfortable at Wood Farm, while Marsh Farm is being finished, they will never get him out again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The former duke also had a cold welcome from his new neighbours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  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 somewhere more \u201csecluded\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think if he has to come and live here, it should be somewhere that\u2019s quite secluded,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe press are all down there. The villagers don\u2019t like that. It\u2019s a quiet village.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, the former Duke of York moved to his new home in Sandringham from his Windsor mansion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-409142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}