‘Paranoid’ Ex-Prince Andrew Fears Beloved Teddy Bear Collection Will Be Stolen Amid Royal Lodge Move (Exclusive)

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is clinging to his beloved teddy bear collection as he prepares to move out of Royal Lodge, the National Examiner has learned.

The former prince’s love of plushies became public knowledge with the recent publication of royal expert Tom Quinn’s 2025 book, Yes, Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants.

“He has a collection of teddy bears, which he insists are placed every day in a certain position… a pyramid shape,” the author told Fox News Digital in March. “And he gets very cross if it’s not done properly.”

The immense pressure that Mountbatten-Windsor, 65, is facing these days only seems to have intensified his obsession with the teddy bears.

“The way [Andrew’s] carrying on about having to move them and how each bear needs to be handled and arranged is completely cuckoo,” says a source. “He’s so paranoid that someone is going to try and steal them that he refuses to let anyone touch them unless he trusts them completely.”

Stranger still, “[Andrew] carries on whole conversations with them and then will relate what they ‘say’ back to his staff as though the bears have given orders,” reveals the source. “He’s completely anthropomorphized them, to the point that he’s convinced the move out of Royal Lodge is going to be hard on them because, as he says, it’s their home too.”

The ex-Duke of York was stripped of his titles and evicted from the palatial estate over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Though he insists he’s done nothing wrong, the disgraced father-of-two — who was photographed on Tuesday, December 16, horseback riding in the rain at Windsor Park while daughters Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, celebrated Christmas early with the royal family at Buckingham Palace — has become a social pariah.

“It might sound pathetic, but he is in a genuinely pathetic place,” the source admits. “The bears, along with his late mother [Queen Elizabeth II’s] corgis, are the only companions he feels he can rely on. Everyone’s whispering that he is one step away from losing it entirely.”