The Royal Lodge clearout marks the latest in a long line of humiliations for the disgraced former prince Andrew.

The King has made no secret of his stance on his brother’s spectacular fall from grace.

His recent statement expressing the “deepest concern” as well as stating clearly that “the law must take its course”, leaves no doubt that Andrew will not be protected by the institution.

After being arrested last month and questioned for 11 hours on allegations of misconduct in a public office relating to his time as a British trade envoy, Andrew faces 10 separate investigations by police forces and authorities across the country probing Jeffrey Epstein’s distressing crimes. Andrew vehemently denies anywrong.

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is facing numerous allegations being probed by investigators in the UK and the US(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Pressure is also continuing to build across the Atlantic, with campaigners from across the political divide in the United States as well as investigators tasked with combing through Epstein’s web of criminality, appealing to the ex-royal to do the right thing and tell them anything he knows about his peadophile pal.

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There will be no sympathy for Andrew’s desperate position being evicted from his home and his finances in disarray after paying a £12million out of court settlement to his sex-abuse accuser, the late Virginia Giuffre.

While he has always denied the allegations that he sexually abused her on three occasions in 2001 when she was a 17-year-old trafficking victim of Epstein’s, he must now finally do the right thing and find it within his conscience to tell detectives anything he know about the late billionaire’s sick and twisted life.

As Andrew soon settles into exile in a far corner of the King’s Sandringham estate, more than 100 miles from where he has lived it up for the last two decades, he will have to become accustomed to a life far less luxurious to the one he has been accustomed to.

Whatever Andrew had maintained in the past, his version of his friendship and severing of ties with the convicted sex offender, were laid bare with page after page of private emails and correspondence between the billionaire financier and the Duke of York who begged to be his “pet”.

At the centre of all of this must be Epstein’s countless victims, some who have added their own voice to appeal to Andrew to do the one decent thing he can and speak to US investigators probing Epstein’s crimes.

As he gets used to life outside the royal fold, a life now in complete disgrace owing to his own conduct, he will have enough time on his hands to think about finally making that call.