Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, who was stripped of his princely title and his spacious home by his brother King Charles on Thursday, is expected to move to Sandringham Estate in eastern England.

As of Friday, Andrew was no longer listed on the roll of the peerage, where he had previously appeared as Duke of York, another of his titles.

The king’s rare move, which follows years of shameful scandals, comes after weeks of pressure to act over Andrew's relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew will move out of Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle where he has lived for more than 20 years, and into a more remote home funded by his brother on the king's 20,000-acre (8,100 hectare) Sandringham Estate.

Some residents, who are proud of their area’s royal connections, are not pleased with his arrival.

“His reputation now is tarnished. And um, I don't think it's right. This is where the royals come for Christmas and they come throughout the year, and I don't think locals really want to see him here," said one local.

"I think he has to go somewhere, but we'd prefer him not to be here, because obviously Sandringham's a lovely place and he's going to bring a bad rep to it as such because it's so pretty and so lovely," said another local resident.

Others have said he should not be publicly shunned.

“People forget that he was a war hero in the Falklands. That's all gone now, hasn't it? Nobody's thinking that he's done any good," said one local.

“It's quite reasonable for him to move to Sandringham and I think it's time the whole thing was resolved and it seems... people are probably going on unreasonable lengths about this and it should get sorted out," said another local resident.

Buckingham Palace said Andrew had been served notice to surrender his lease and would move "as soon as practicable,” though that is not expected to be until after Christmas — when the whole family usually gathers at Sandringham.

Andrew surrendered his use of the title Duke of York earlier this month over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed sexual abuse allegations in Giuffre's posthumous memoir.

Andrew denies all her claims.

But the king went even further to punish him for serious lapses of judgment by removing the title of prince that he has held since birth as a child of a monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Andrew also lost the designation “his royal highness,” making the former prince effectively a commoner now.