Although Tengbo denied claims he was a spy, with the prince having insisted he had ceased all contact with him once suspicions were first raised, their once close friendship turned heads, with the duke, 64, pulling out of last year’s Royal Family Christmas plans at Sandringham as a result.

Andrew, who was poised to leave the Royal Lodge after his brother King Charles cut him off financially, 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 grounds.

Prince Andrew is facing a lonely life at his Royal Lodge home as he is banned from many royal events and his brother King Charles is desperate for him to leave

The disgraced Duke of York is reportedly trying to hide in the shadows at his home in Royal Lodge in the Windsor grounds.