Nov. 13, 2025
THURSDAY 11/13 AFTERNOON Andrew Shuts Down His Business as Fergie Plots Her Escape from The Doghouse
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s last business venture, Pitch@Palace Global, is officially being dissolved — ending his attempt to play royal dragon in a Dragons’ Den world.
Meanwhile, Sarah Ferguson hides out in her private bar, “The Doghouse,” drowning stress in champagne and fear of eviction from Royal Lodge. Reports claim she’s even considering selling private letters from Princess Diana to stay afloat, a move that could ignite royal fury. And in the latest twist, Buckingham Palace quietly restores Andrew’s long-lost hyphen, confirming his surname is once again Mountbatten-Windsor — or as some might say, Mountbatten-Dash-Disaster.
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thank you so much for your support, and we'll continue
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to bring you the news as it happens. Andrew mount
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Batten Windsor is closing the book on what remains of
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his business ventures, with formal proceedings now under way to
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dissolve pitch at Palace Global, his Dragon's Den style startup competition,
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once designed to connect young entrepreneurs with investors. A filing
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submitted to company's house on Tuesday confirmed the closure, signed
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by its sole director, Arthur Lancaster. Launched in twenty fourteen,
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Pitch at Palace held events and settings which Saint James
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Pallace and attracted global participants, pitching two investors. The enterprise
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ground to a halt in twenty nineteen, shortly after mount
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Baton Windsor's now infamous BBC Newsnight interview about his friendship
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with Jeffrey Epstein, during which he denied having any sexual
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contact with Virginia Geoffrey. The UK branch of Pitchet Palace
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was wound up in twenty twenty one, but the international
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arm Pitchet Palace Global remained active until now. The most
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recent amounts showed cash reserves of just over ten thousand
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pounds as of March, down sharply from two hundred twenty
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thousand the year prior. The brand has faced additional complications overseas.
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In twenty twenty three, Yang Tangbo, who founded the Chinese branch,
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was accused of being a spy, an allegation he denied.
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The UK's National Security Court upheld a ban preventing him
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from entering Britain, rejecting his appeal before the Special Immigration
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Appeals Commission. Another business linked to Mount Baton, Windsor in
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a Va Global Limited, has also begun the process of
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shutting down. According to further company's house documents, Sarah Ferguson
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has said to be spending more and more time in
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the purpose built bar called the Doghouse, which we've talked
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about before, which is a wonderfully appropriate name if you
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think about it. The doghouse is located beside the thirty
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room Royal Lodge estate in Windsor Great Park. According to insiders,
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she has been using the private retreat to escape, often
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asking staff to stay late and listen as she vents
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her frustrations. The source says she's been hurt having some
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pretty intense conversations about what is going on. Luckily, Sarah
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has quite a few staff left working for her who
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really like her, and she is really leaning on them
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for support. She spends quite a lot of evenings in
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the doghouse drinking with friends and staff to escape from
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what's going on in her life generally, and while she's
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there she takes advice on what to do next. For
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news dot co dot au, DANIELA Elsa writes, there is
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one bar in the world where no sane, sensible person
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still in command and of their faculties wants to drink
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right now, the unironically named Doghouse. If you haven't heard
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of this, it's because you are not one of the
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lucky people who call Andrew mount Batten Windsor and Sarah
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Ferguson your boss. The former Duchess in particular, is panicking
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about what comes next and she is not in a
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good place. Still, someone inside the lodge is clearly composmentous
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enough to have arranged for several boxes of French Devaux
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brand champagne, which costs about ninety dollars a bottle in Australia,
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to be ferried over. The former marriages, who Fergie once
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described as the world's happiest divorced couple, no longer sound
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like they are quite such a success story for the
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concisely uncoupled. Sure, Andrew and She might be both living
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in the thirty room pile, but they are in different wings,
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which are at different ends of the palatial property, and
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doing what sounds like a lot of forlornly staring out
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of windows and wondering which Caribbean countries have no extradition
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treaties Sensationally. The male has also reported that not only
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is Arles having to find a royal property to stashus
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melodorous burk of a brother, but his former sister in
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law too, with the male revealing the plans are a
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foot too. Quietly and discreetly rehome the sixty six year
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old former Duchess, albeit at the King's expense to compensate
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her for the loss of a roof over her head,
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you would have to think there's some method to this
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pr madness, because a homeless, truly broke Fergs would be
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a very dangerous thing for the palace. Indeed, pushing her
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to the very edge financially could leave her desperate and
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with no options but to truly throw Andrew In the
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Royal family under the bus via some sort of eyelid,
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a pealing tell the TV or book of visceration. However,
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even when the King has found a couple of estate
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properties with working central heating and no public sight lines,
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as we know when it comes to Andrew and Fergie,
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things can always get worse. And yes, things can always
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get worse. Sarah is reportedly considering selling a private collection
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of letters written to her by Princess Diana, correspondence said
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to contain personal reflects on the late Princess's troubled marriage
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to then Prince Charles. According to New Idea magazine, the
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former Duchess of York has kept the letters for decades
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and now views them as a potential financial lifeline as
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she and her ex husband Andrew mount Batten Windsor prepare
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to vacate Royal Lodge following the King's order for them
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to leave the property, and insider told the publication Fergue's
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long hoarded correspondence from Diana, with some letters containing vivid
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details about her disastrous marriage to Charles. Anything related to
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Diana can fetch a fortune. The treasure trove of letters
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from Diana is Fergie's secret weapon. The same source claimed
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Ferguson is facing mounting financial pressure and may turn to
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the letters or even a new Tellol memoir to secure
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her future. She's freaking out right now, but it won't
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take her long to start plotting her next move. The
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insiders said. Fergie and Andrew have got nothing further to lose,
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so if they need to sell out the royal family,
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don't be surprised if they do it. Ferguson has previously
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spoken fondly of her with Diana, describing her as a
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dear friend and sisterlike figure. However, if the report proves accurate,
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the sale of Diana's private correspondence would be seen as
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a stunning breach of royal trust and a move likely
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to infuriate King Charles. Never mind Diana's son William Well
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Pallas in just the moment. In The Independent Lydia Spencer
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Elliott wonders if a hyphen is common or posh, she writes.
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Andrew was once assumed to be joining the likes of aristocrats,
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including the Spencer Dash, Churchills, Bows, Dash Lions and Petty
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Dash Fitz Maurice's of the world, to tether his two
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family names together as one. But when Buckingham Pallis announced
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his new title, there was nothing but blank space between
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the storied surnames. The late Queen mother, who was Elizabeth
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Bow's Dash Lion on all official documents, went by Elizabeth
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Bow's Lion without the hyphen. In reality, because the royal family,
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they go a lot going on, simply have made a
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very high profile typo well good news. Buckingham Palaces quietly
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clarified the long dash debated issue of Andrew's surname, confirming
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that it will now appear with a hyphen Mount Baton
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Dash Windsor, in line with Queen Elizabeth the Second's nineteen
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sixty declaration. When asked earlier this year about the absence
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of a hyphen in recent documents of palace, spokesman said
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simply Andrew mount Batten Windsor was the name agreed. However,
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it is understood that the Pallace has since viewed the
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original nineteen sixty Privy Council declaration, which clearly includes the
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hyphen and will use the hyphenated form going forward. After
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Elizabeth's accession in nineteen fifty two, she had decreed that
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the royal family would remain Windsor, a decision that infuriated
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Prince Philip, who felt erased from his own children's lineage.
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I'm just a bloody member, he reportedly fumed at the time,
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saying he was the only man in the country not
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permitted to give his name to his children. In nineteen sixty,
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the Queen offered her husband a concession, agreeing to the
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double barreled surname Mount Baton dash windsor ites you made
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public in a formal declaration on February eighth that year,
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just ahead of Andrew's birth on February nineteenth. The document read,
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my descendants other than descendants enjoying the stale title or
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attribute of Royal Highness and the titular dignity of Prince
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or Princess. Female descendants who marry and their descendants shall
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bear the name of Mount Baton dash Windsor the name
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appears in that form on the Royal Family's official website,
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and there you have it. If you like to email
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about his whole life from a young child to his
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fall from grace. It's available wherever you get your podcasts
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like this one, and you can get the link in
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the show notes or just search Crown and Controversy Prince Andrew.
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