The King made the verdict to officially strip his brother, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, of all his titles, honours and kinds after a string of scandals. The remark by way of Buckingham Palace got here after the previous Prince introduced he would relinquish his titles, however this transfer by means of the monarch now successfully ends Andrew’s public existence.
Even supposing the dukedom may well be abolished thru an Act of Parliament, it’s understood that the King didn’t want to take in parliamentary time or save you MPs from specializing in pressing nationwide problems. He most well-liked to do what he may inside of his personal royal prerogative.
It was once showed on Friday that Andrew not seems at the legitimate roll of the peerage, a key step in officially casting off his titles. Dukes, together with the Duke of York, are indexed at the roll of the peerage maintained on the Crown Place of work and, as Lord Chancellor, David Lammy is answerable for keeping up it.
Mr Lammy, who may be Justice Secretary, was once because of be despatched royal warrants by means of the King to strike the Duke from the roll, in addition to his Prince identify and HRH taste. The legitimate procedure will practice to his titles of Prince, Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, Baron Killyleagh and the way ‘His Royal Highness’. The honours affected are Andrew’s Order of the Garter and Knight Grand Pass of the Victorian Order. The dramatic determination is unparalleled in fresh royal historical past – so who have been the remaining royals to be stripped in their titles?
Titles Deprivation Act 1917
Regulation has been used sooner than to strip titles, significantly descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who have been at the German facet within the First International Warfare. The Act supposed that enemies of the United Kingdom all over the warfare may well be disadvantaged in their British peerages and royal titles.
The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 was once used two years later to strip the titles from Leopold Charles, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow; Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, Earl of Armagh; Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Prince of Nice Britain and Eire; and Henry, Viscount Taaffe of Corren and Baron of Ballymote.
