Secrets of the Royal Palaces

-Britain's royal palaces are family home like no other.

Historic.

-These buildings speak to our extraordinary royal past.

-Secure.

-Palaces are fortresses.

They're super safe.

You're protected.

-And deeply secretive.

-It is the poshest, most regal gated community in the world.

-In this new series, we sneak inside more of Britain's extraordinary royal homes.

To eavesdrop on palace secrets.

-Suddenly now, to hear it in full verse from the Princess of Wales was quite extraordinary.

-Uncover mysterious treasures.

-They were shrouded in secrecy, both outside the walls of walls of the palace and even inside.

-Reveal hidden royal residences.

the public know nothing about.

-It is absolutely not for public access, and therefore, we only get a glimpse of it.

-And unearth the stories of the most dramatic palace moments.

-He said, "If you see this, I will be dead.

I'm going to kill the Queen."

-These are the extraordinary and brand new secrets of the royal palaces.

-This time, we reveal the secrets of palace scandal, as Diana opens up to palace staff.

-She said, "Do you know about my husband's relationship with Camilla?"

-Charles is tricked by an outrageous art con.

-Of the 17 paintings that were loaned, four of them turned out to be fakes.

-We expose a Windsor security breach that left the Queen in the firing line.

-He carried a crossbow.

He was wandering around trying to find a way in to the Queen's private apartments.

-Uncover the shocking link between Victoria's innocent lapdog and a palace massacre.

-This was the most despicable war crime.

-We reveal how the reputations of the Frogmore Princesses were threatened by exposure.

-No kiss and tell, no scandalous memoir has ever reached the shocking heights of the book "The Claustral Palace."

-And we discover the Royal Lodge is the perfect place to hide a scandal hit royal.

-So if you really want to shut yourself away from the world, you could hardly do better.

-But first, to a palace far away and a tale of scandalous revelations in the sun, after Charles and Diana set off on a Mediterranean palace holiday to die for.

-One thing that I have learned about the royals over the years is they love an invitation to go and stay with someone when it's free and they've got magnificent accommodation.

-They've got a young family at this point, and they get invited to use the royal family in Spain, their official summer residence, which is called Marivent Palace.

-Meaning "wind and sea", Marivent sits on steep cliffs just outside Palma on the island of Mallorca.

-It was set in the most beautiful location.

It's cut into the mountains in Mallorca.

It's for people who are very, very high profile that want to enjoy the sun and swimming and the sea.

-The thing that made it really special for Prince Charles and Diana was there was a huge amount of privacy.

-Surrounded by lush gardens and pine groves, the secluded summer palace was built by a by a Greek millionaire in the 1920s.

By the '80s, it had become the summer retreat of King Juan Carlos, and for four years between 1986 and 1990, he would host the Wales's.

-They could let their hair down, and actually they probably got the chance to do what the rest of us really like doing on our holidays, which is a bit of sun, sea, and plenty of sangria.

-For the very first time, it felt like they were embarking on the kind of holiday that the majority of their subjects, the citizens, if you like, had themselves.

With William and Harry being at just the right sort of age for a bucket and spade holiday.

-With huge press interest, the royals agreed to a photo shoot where the Wales's appeared a picture of family bliss.

-They were delightful, informal pictures.

The King had a couple of dogs.

There was one rather aggressive Alsatian that Harry threw some gravel at one stage because he was manhandling the Queen's lap dog, and that was a very charming situation.

-But the happy family photo shoot was just for show.

Hidden from view, the couple were spending their palace holiday as far apart as possible.

-Diana likes sunbathing, like swimming, and playing with the children, building sand castles.

Charles liked painting.

-He was off doing his own private pursuits and passions, his painting or whatever he wanted to do.

-I don't think he was that concerned about what Diana did or didn't do.

-For insiders like protection officer Ken Wharfe, the distance between the pair had become obvious, but the scandalous truth of their extramarital affairs was still a closely guarded secret.

That was until Diana summoned Ken to a secret poolside meeting.

-I was shown to the swimming pool actually, where she was sat on her own, having a late breakfast, and I said, "This must be serious."

She said, "Do you know about my husband's relationship with Camilla?

Do you know about James Hewitt?"

She told me, in short, that the problems with her marriage, the problems that, you know, that Camilla Parker Bowles had always been there.

She did say to me, um, you know, at that moment in the palace that, you know, it was a shame because her marriage was a sham.

-Diana's confession at Marivent marked a turning point.

The secrets of the royal marriage had begun to seep out.

-So to share it with the policeman the bodyguard was unusual.

It was a privilege, in one sense, to listen and to be invited to listen to effectively what were her problems.

-Suddenly now, to hear it in full verse from the Princess of Wales was quite extraordinary.

-Back on British soil, Ken was now charged with helping Diana lead a secret double life.

-I found I understood this woman much more as a result of this discussion because it did help me, for example, to police the occasions, we met with James Hewitt privately at his mother's house in Devon.

And for that reason, you know, we had a very good dialogue and we were able to discuss things that ordinarily, without that meeting, I think perhaps would never have happened.

-And after Marivent, it wasn't just Ken adjusting to the new world of palace intrigue.

-I was working for the Prince of Wales's wife, Diana, at that time.

My boss was working for the Prince, so we had this unwritten rule that what I did stayed with me, and what he did obviously stayed with him, but never did I discuss it either with him or senior police management.

-But the secret world could not hold.

As the press caught wind of the scandalous affairs, the whole world would come to hear the extraordinary revelations first heard by Ken poolside at Marivent Palace.

What Buckingham Palace lacks in sun and sand, it makes up for in prestige and majesty.

But that makes it a target.

And all the walls in the world can't protect it if the threat comes from within.

-It was June 2020.

And Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Johnstone-Burt was preparing himself for what would have been something of a starring role at Trooping the Colour.

-The Queen had made him Companion of the Order of the Bath.

It's the fourth most important honorific chivalric position in the Queen's gift.

He wanted to wear his medal when he was Trooping the Colour in honor of the Queen's birthday.

And he kept the medal in his work office at Buckingham Palace, And he couldn't find it.

And he thought that was a bit odd.

-The retired Royal Navy officer and master of the Royal Household was forced to borrow a medal in the hope his medal would turn up later.

And it did, in a very unexpected place.

-The medal did turn up, but it didn't turn up down the back of the sofa, or anywhere else where the vice admiral might have mislaid it.

It turned up on an online auction site being flogged off for �350, which slightly added insult to injury because apparently it should have been asking at least double that price.

-But it wasn't the only palace treasure up for sale.

When authorities examined the website, a vast assortment of royal riches were up for grabs, some of them invaluable and one of a kind.

-There were things like cuff links, a Tiffany pen silk pajamas.

There was a photo album from Donald Trump's state visit.

There was watches, pocket watches on necklaces.

-Even a mobile phone that had been designed specifically for Prince Andrew from his personal storeroom.

Signed pictures of the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which literally money can't buy because they give that as presents to people.

-The items could be traced back to areas all over the palace.

-This had to be someone with the access and with the with the security clearance to be able to get behind palace walls, get in all those secret nooks and crannies.

-It could only mean one thing.

-There was a thief in the palace.

-We have 800 suspects, 800 different people who could have had access to these items.

Almost impossible to work out who it was.

-Luckily, the police didn't have to dig too deep to unearth a clue.

-Our thief left a very, very, very obvious clue for us -- his name on the online auction site.

-It turned out the thief, Adamo Canto, was a catering assistant working for the royal household under the master of the household, Sir Anthony, the very person whose medal he had stolen.

-When Adamo Canto sold all of these things on eBay, he got about �7,700 for them, but it's thought that actually if you put these 77 items together, it's probably more like �100,000.

-He never had a criminal record before, but what had happened was he'd come to London, he'd got into debt, and then he'd taken out payday loans.

And he then was falling further and further behind.

So he sold this stuff to try and get himself out of debt.

-It's no secret that people who are employed within the royal palaces, they don't get paid very much.

-People work at Buckingham Palace not for the miserly pay, but for the honor.

But of course, honor doesn't pay the bills.

-Coming up, at Windsor Castle, the Queen is under threat.

-He is dressed like a vigilante and says very clearly, "I am here to kill the Queen."

-At Dumfries House, Prince Charles finds himself caught up in an art swindle.

-Hold on, Charles.

If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

-Britain's royals do not want for palaces.

They have access to a huge portfolio of properties throughout the country.

Yet some Windsors still keep an eye on the property market, not least architecture buff King Charles.

And in 2007, a home came on the market that ticked all his boxes.

-Dumfries House unquestionably is an exquisite property.

Beautiful estates in lowland Scotland.

It is perhaps the finest example of Scottish and English Georgian architecture and furniture.

It's a honeypot.

It's a real delight.

-The house and its precious furniture were put up for sale by the Seventh Marquess of Bute.

His family had owned the property since 1635.

-And they ideally want to sell it with the furniture intact.

So all holus bolus goes to one owner.

But nobody has that kind of cash, so it's being split up when in swoops Prince Charles with a kind of smorgasbord of investors and some of his own money to make good and to keep the furniture and the architecture together.

-Having saved the day, the Prince set about restoring the Georgian house back to its former glory.

It would be a mini palace, the HQ for the Prince's Foundation and a major attraction outside and in.

-So not only is there the original Chippendale furniture, there's the content and the wall hangings have all been restored.

There's a marvelous collection of antique clocks.

And for Charles, the icing on the cake was to have a fantastic art collection.

-The problem was, as Dumfries House wasn't bought by the Crown, Charles couldn't have his pick of the royal art collection to hang on the walls.

But in 2017, an exciting opportunity presented itself.

-Prince's Foundation were lent this extraordinary collection on a 10-year loan of 17 incredible paintings.

Now in this collection there were paintings by Picasso, by Salvador Dali, by Monet, by Chagall.

The whole collection was estimated at around �100 million.

-These 17 masterpieces were being lent by a businessman named James Stunt, the former son in law of Bernie Ecclestone.

-He looked like a credible guy trading with the biggest art dealers in the world.

Why wouldn't you go for it?

17 world famous artists.

Now that's going to be twinned very nicely with the Chippendale furniture.

-It's not unknown for art galleries to get loans from wealthy people for exhibitions.

So I could see why they thought that this was a gift horse that was worth looking at without studying it too closely.

So perhaps they should have been cautious of James Stunt bearing gifts.

Perhaps slightly questionable as to the sources of his money and his business practices.

-But for the Prince, the focus was getting the artwork on the walls.

-Prince Charles can't believe his luck.

He writes a letter.

"Your kindness and generosity are truly remarkable."

He writes, "You're never gonna know how grateful I feel."

At which point, we have to go, "Hold on, Charles, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."

-Later, we discover why Prince Charles should have taken a closer look at the new pictures.

Palaces have always attracted scandal and those trying to make money out of it.

Two centuries ago, at Frogmore House in the Windsor Estate, six young princesses would find themselves the target of extortion.

-No kiss and tell, no scandalous memoir has ever reached the shocking heights of the book "The Claustral Palace", which was set in the fictional Palace of "Toadmore", which was thinly disguised code for Frogmore House, the royal residence in the grounds of Windsor Castle where the unmarried daughters of George III were living.

Everyone thought they lived a quiet, peaceful life of drawing and botany, but in fact some of them were engaging in affairs with their servants.

There were illegitimate pregnancies.

It was all scandal.

And "The Claustral Palace" threatened to blow this scandal wide.

The author of the book is one Thomas Ashe, an exceedingly dodgy man who has been accused of theft, fraud, dueling, and seduction.

Couldn't be more criminal.

And he starts writing this very shocking, scandalous book about the lives of the princesses, their affairs.

He finishes it.

He doesn't take it straight to the publisher to be put out, red hot, a bestseller.

He goes to the royal family, and he blackmails them.

He says, "If you don't give me money, I'm publishing this."

So the royal family are stuck.

But then something very mysterious happens.

The manuscript is stolen.

But then, even more strangely, the manuscript ends up in the government's stores.

This incendiary, explosive book was hidden for centuries in the archives, so that no one could ever read this shocking, scandalous, salacious memoir about Toadmore/Frogmore, the princesses, and all their affairs.

-Frogmore House sits in the grounds of the Windsor estate, about a mile from the castle.

This impenetrable fortress has been protecting the British royals for almost a thousand years.

That is until Christmas Day 2021.

-It was the first Christmas that the Queen had spent since the death of Prince Philip, at the age of 99, earlier on in 2021.

In the early hours of Christmas day, Jaswant Singh Chail, a 19-year-old from Southampton, left his home.

He was dressed in a black hooded robe with a grotesque mask.

He carried a crossbow.

He had with him a rope ladder to climb over the spiked gates that are kind of the external perimeter wall of Windsor Castle.

And he was wandering around trying to find a way in to the Queen's private apartments.

-Security at Windsor Castle, like any other royal palace, Sandringham, Kensington, Balmoral, are policed very thinly because the Queen at that time, and I dare say the King himself now, doesn't want this to be fortress royalty.

They don't want to be imprisoned and guarded within their palaces.

But it is disturbing the fact that somebody can still, given the height of those walls, throw up a rope ladder and carry effectively a crossbow with ammunition that could have devastating results.

-Unnoticed, the armed assailant prowled the grounds, looking to reach the monarch until he stumbled upon a security hut.

-The security guard approaches him.

Now remember, he is dressed like a vigilante.

He says to him, "What are you doing here?"

And Jaswant Singh Chail says very clearly, "I am here to kill the Queen."

-The Windsor Guard spotted the crossbow and pulled out his taser gun, ordering Charlie to drop the weapon and get on his knees.

Thankfully, he complied before a shot was fired.

-Chail was charged under the Treason Act of 1842 with possession of a weapon and threats to kill.

-In October 2023, Chail was sentenced to nine years for treason.

-You would have thought, after such a heinous breach of security, someone who brought an offensive weapon to kill the Queen, security would have been tightened up.

But no.

Just five months later, a con artist managed to inveigle his way into the barracks of the Coldstream Guards.

-Created in 1650, the Coldstream Guards are a household regiment responsible for protecting the monarch when they are in residence at the castle.

-They are known for their bearskin hats, for their red coats.

They're the ones that you see at changing of the guard.

They're supposed to be an elite fighting force, famous for their skills and famous for protecting the royal family.

-But in April 2022, only a quarter of a mile away from the castle, they certainly let their guard down when an unknown man talked his way in.

-He approached the guard at the entrance to Windsor Barracks and said he was a friend of the padre, Reverend Matt Coles.

And so they invited him straight in.

No checks, no passes, no security, nothing.

-It's slightly alarming that one of those individuals didn't realize that actually, he wasn't one of us.

-He's given food, and he's given drinks, and he's spending the evening regaling these officers, this elite fighting force, all about his time in the army.

You know, he'd been a pilot, and he tested ejector seats, and he'd had his organs replaced because of the effects of G-force.

You know, all these incredible stories.

-Not only did the elite royal guards fail to recognize him as a con man and liar, they even offered him a bed for the night.

-The next morning, they suddenly realized that perhaps they had a complete fantasist in their midst.

The police were called.

He was marched off the premises.

It was hugely embarrassing for the Coldstream Guards, these men who were supposed to be protecting the monarch.

I think they wanted to hush up the entire affair because it was so embarrassing.

They certainly didn't want the Queen to find out.

-Coming up, at Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria receives a tiny pet with a dark history.

-They went to the old Summer Palace, this extraordinary imperial complex, and wanted to destroy it as an act of war.

-And it's off to the tower for a royal rival.

-Henry's body bled on to the streets of London, suggesting there had been foul play.

The royal palaces are dotted throughout the land, from the Highlands to the south coast of England.

They are built for built for security and pleasure.

But it's not just the family that get to enjoy the high life.

Their pets also get to live in the lap of luxury.

-The royals have always had a strong relationship with dogs.

We know that Queen Elizabeth II adored her corgis, and Victoria, Albert, they were both passionate about their dogs, Victoria even saying that she preferred canine companions to her own children.

-Queen Victoria loved commemorating her beloved pets in paintings and sculptures, and on occasions, she even received animals as gifts, like the charming little dog with the charming little name, Looty.

-Looty was one of the first Pekingese lion dogs to be brought to the shores of England all the way from China, and she was a gift of an army captain, John Donne.

To those visiting Victoria at court, those who would have seen Looty, it must have been a shock to see such a tiny little dog.

Now we're more accustomed to these kinds of tiny breeds.

But then, this was a curiosity.

They were known as sleeve dogs because in China, the women of the court could hide them, tuck them inside their sleeves.

-Besotted by the little dog, in 1861, the Queen commissioned a portrait by Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl.

Keyl often executed portraits in a very classical style, in muted colors, but his depiction of Looty is unusual because it's in such bright, vibrant colors.

And if we look in the background, we see a Japanese jar, which is in the Windsor Castle picture gallery, which really harks back to Looty's East Asian origins.

-And when it came to painting the dog, Keyl was given very clear instructions -- emphasize how unbelievably tiny this creature is, so the little vase that's been chosen from the Royal collection, that is there with all its delicate details.

But this cluster of hand-picked, dainty flowers, now, to anyone looking at that painting, they would know how small these little flowers were.

And that really gives a sense of scale.

-There's no doubt about it.

The painting really does show that Looty is an incredibly small and very, very cute dog.

-But underneath this seemingly perfect story, there is a more ugly underbelly.

-Looty's name was inspired by a terrible crime.

-In 1860, the Opium Wars were raging.

French and English troops were riled up against the Chinese.

They went to the old Summer Palace, this extraordinary imperial complex, and wanted to destroy it as an act of war.

Now this place, it's eight times the size of the Vatican.

It was surrounded with secret gardens, incredible architecture.

-And packed to the gunwales with treasures of every kind.

Gold, jades, porcelains, furs, textiles.

-Now the Emperor had left, but there were 300 eunuchs and maids that had stayed behind to look after the palace.

They had locked themselves in.

Every one of them died.

This was the most despicable war crime.

And yet, the troops had taken out things that they considered of value, things like porcelain, a few bronzes, and Looty the dog.

-The flippancy of choosing this name really shows how commonplace and accepted that looting was at the time.

And of course, now it is a war crime.

-Looting was then an accepted part of foreign military campaigns, and Looty was the celebrated spoils of the war.

For several years, she was Queen Victoria's little treasure around the palace, until the novelty wore off.

Looty spent her last years living alone in the royal kennels at Windsor, underneath her infamous portrait.

-Queen Victoria was very careful to memorialize her beloved pets.

They all had sculptures, burials, epigrams.

But there is nothing like that for Looty.

If it hadn't have been for Keyl's painting, that tiny little dog would have been forgotten forever.

-Sometimes being forgotten in a palace is exactly what you want to happen.

Three miles from the formidable Windsor Castle, tucked into a secluded corner of the great park, almost entirely hidden from public view, the most private of all royal residences, the Royal Lodge.

-Royal Lodge, it is absolutely not for public access, and therefore we only get a glimpse of it from time to time, maybe over the tree tops.

So if you really want to shut yourself away from the world, you could hardly do better.

-Today, it's the ideal place for our most scandal hit royal, Prince Andrew, to retreat from public view.

But he's not the first notorious royal to enjoy this hidden spot.

As soon as the decadent Prince Regent, the future King George IV, came to power in 1811, he decided he wanted to renovate the residence when it was still a humble hunting lodge.

-He then set about embellishing and doubling in size the lodge that was there in the early 1800s, together with his favorite architect, John Nash.

I mean, this was like a palace with a thatched roof dumped on top with all the sumptuousness that you'd associate with that gargantuan character.

-A lot of people mention this salon, which was built as a dining room for the Prince Regent.

We know he loved to eat, and he loved feasting.

And he has this thumping, great dining room designed by John Nash.

-The lavish building would become a symbol of King George's self-indulgent life of eating, drinking, and spending.

-The hugely unpopular George IV dies in 1830, and his successor, King William IV, took one look at the lodge and decided to demolish most of it.

It really was symptomatic of the excess of the previous monarch.

-In its place rose a less extravagant royal residence, and with its reputation saved, the secluded home was once again enjoyed by the royals.

-King George V gifted the lodge to the then Duke and Duchess of York, and of course, they would become King George VI and the late Queen Mother.

-And that's where Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret were brought up as children.

And in that process, a wing was added to either side.

And it's that U-shape as a result, which gives us the building that we've inherited today.

-When George VI became king, the family moved into Windsor Castle.

It was only after the king's death and their daughter Elizabeth II's accession to the throne that the Queen mum took up residence again.

-And she moves back there in the '50s.

This is her country residence in Windsor Park.

And remains there until she dies in the Royal Lodge in 2002.

-It's after her death that the lodge gets a new owner, Prince Andrew.

-And with him he would bring scandal once again to the Royal Lodge, as we will discover.

-It isn't just old royal palaces that hide trouble.

New acquisitions can bring problems, too.

In 2017, after restoring the architecture and treasures of Dumfries House, Prince Charles was offered the loan of 17 masterpieces to hang on its newly refurbished walls.

-This included a �50 million version of Monet's Water Lilies, a �42 million Picasso, a �12 million Dali, and a image known as Paris Con Amore by the surrealist painter Chagall.

-But this generous gift had a secret sting in the tail.

-Of the 17 paintings that were loaned, four of them turned out to be fakes.

-And actually, when you look at them, they seem quite obvious fakes.

So the Monet refers to lilies before Monet had the house with the lilies at Giverny.

The Picasso doesn't really look like a Picasso of people on a beach, and it's a sort of bad copy of another painting.

-But none of these obvious clues were spotted by the Prince or Dumfries House.

-Do you know who called time on Mr.

Stunt's stunts?

None other than the artist himself, Tony Tetro, a world famous painter of replicas.

-He had lived a colorful life as a forger of artworks.

His pieces hang in museums and galleries because he had this perfectionist technique that meant he could pass himself off as the artist.

He's even quoted as saying, "I've painted more Chagalls than Chagall."

-The master forger was worried about being connected to the scandal.

-He was like, "Hang on a minute.

They're my paintings.

And if they're being passed off as the real deal, it's me that's going to get into trouble."

So he blows the whistle.

-After the paintings were outed, Dumfries House quickly and quietly removed the collection from their walls.

As for Stunt, he denies any wrongdoing.

-He was very quick to come out on social media and say he would never do anything to harm Dumfries House.

But that earlier invitation that Charles offered him, saying he would always be welcome up there, I'm not so sure it still stands.

-Palace invitations are usually highly sought after, though there is one palace it's unwise to visit because even kings don't always get out of the tower alive.

-Henry VI was always seen as rather a weak king, not really up to the rough and tumble of kingship in the 15th century.

But that was a problem because there was a rival for the throne.

And so began the Wars of the Roses.

The battling it out for the throne of England.

-In 1461, Henry VI was deposed by Edward IV.

In 1470, Henry got the throne back and pushed out Edward IV.

In the following year, 1471, Edward won again, and this time, Edward wasn't going to let his rival wander round town, stirring up sedition.

Edward IV sent Henry VI to the Tower of London to be imprisoned.

-Convention held that Henry should be kept safe in the tower, even if his death would be rather handy for the new king.

-Then, very strangely, not long after Henry VI had arrived at the Tower of London, just over a fortnight, he was dead.

Next day, Henry's body was paraded through the streets of London to show everyone that he was really dead and Edward IV was the king.

But Henry's body bled on to the streets of London, suggesting there had been foul play, that he'd been killed, perhaps stabbed, poisoned, thrown down the stairs.

Something bad had happened.

Because, let's face it, it was much to Edward advantage that Henry was dead.

And he probably ordered the death of his rival in the tower.

-Coming up, at the Royal Lodge, evicting a scandal hit brother proves impossible for King Charles.

-Andrew is refusing to budge.

-And at Hampton Court, Henry VIII puts on a show that spells trouble for Anne Boleyn.

-The whole crowd knew that things were looking very bad for Anne.

-Many of Britain's palaces stand proud and prominent on the landscape.

Others are concealed away in private corners.

None more so than the Royal Lodge, hidden within the Great Windsor Estate, one of the most coveted royal residences.

It's a large, white painted property.

It's said to have 30 rooms, seven bedrooms.

-It's got an indoor swimming pool, amazing lighting, has beautiful windows, these sculpted landscape gardens that numerous famous people have idled their way through.

This is a dream house.

It really is.

It's a fairyland.

-But this fairyland has become the subject of a bitter royal fight after the very public fall from grace of its current tenant, Prince Andrew.

-Andrew got himself into a spot of bother, and that's putting it mildly, when he consorted and hung out with the unedifying spectacle that was Jeffrey Epstein.

-This led to him stepping down as a working royal.

He lost his military roles, his royal patronages.

And I think for many, it sticks in the craw that Andrew enjoys this plum property within Great Windsor Park.

-The shamed prince hasn't been hiding away alone, though.

He's joined by his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

-Andrew and Fergie have been living together for the best part of the last 25 years as a divorced man and wife.

They occupy separate parts of Royal Lodge.

-They can each have a separate wing, so it's designed for divorce.

-But an expansive estate also requires an expansive upkeep.

-Andrew has lived in Royal Lodge for 20 years now, so that's two decades since its last refurbishment.

And reportedly, the roof is leaking.

A roof on a building this size would be expensive.

Any updates, wiring, plumbing, expensive redecoration, you name it.

If you're a working royal, you get support for this kind of thing on your properties.

-His problem is because he's no longer a working royal, the renovations that are much needed in the lodge cannot be paid for, even in part by the Crown Estates.

-But big brother Charles has a solution to fund the much needed refurbishment.

Remove Andrew and replace him with royals who are both working and aren't in disgrace.

-If Kate and Wills, as working royals are moved in, then the state picks up the tab.

-But the perfect plan has one problem.

-Irrespective of what may or may not have happened between him and Epstein, Andrew's name is on the lease with the Crown Estate.

That makes removing Prince Andrew from the Royal Lodge complicated.

Why?

Because the deal's with Prince Andrew, whether he's a working royal or not, and Andrew is refusing to budge.

-Unfortunately for the king, there appears nothing he can do to force Andrew to leave other than wait him out.

But it might be a long wait.

Reportedly, there are up to 90 years left on his lease.

-Unlike the Royal Lodge, most of Britain's palaces are there to be seen and are the at the backdrop for royal pomp and ceremony.

But some pieces of palace theater have darker intent, as Anne Boleyn found out at Greenwich Palace.

-1536, Anne Boleyn is in trouble.

She's not had a male heir, she's annoyed Henry VII, and she's fallen out with Thomas Cromwell, Henry's right hand man, Henry decides she's been committing adultery with the men around her.

And Thomas Cromwell moves in for the kill.

He arrests Mark Smeaton, one of Anne's musicians.

And that's significant because as a commoner, Mark Smeaton can be tortured.

Thomas Cromwell has him tortured.

And on 30th of April, Mark Smeaton says, "Yes, I committed adultery."

He "confesses."

Forced out of him by torture.

The next day, 1st of May, Anne Boleyn and Henry VII are at Greenwich Palace watching the May Day jousts.

A messenger whispered in Henry's ear, and Henry stood up and stormed out of the jousts, leaving Anne there alone.

Henry had stormed out for show.

He wanted the whole court, the world, to know that Anne was in trouble.

The whole crowd knew that things were looking very bad for Anne.

On the 2nd of May, Anne was arrested and taken to the tower, and there, she was put on trial for adultery with various men, including her own brother.

By the end of the month, Anne was executed.

The queen had lost her head.

-Next time, the secret behind the Queen's final balcony appearance.

-It was a military operation because she didn't want anyone to see her in a wheelchair.

-The palace that was a baptism of fire for the Duchess of Cambridge.

-Kate was nervous.

She was nervous about the speech.

She was nervous about the attendants.

She was nervous about how she would stand, what to do with her hands.

-And the cover up of a Russian spy in the palace.

-I think people underestimate just how effective he was as a Soviet asset, and he gave nothing away.