Queen Elizabeth II could be “completely heartbroken” to look what her 2d son Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, previously referred to as Prince Andrew, goes via, royal writer Phil Dampier says on this week’s factor of HELLO! mag. Steadily known as Her Overdue Majesty’s “favorite” kid, Andrew, previously week, has been stripped of his royal taste, titles and honours, and ordered to give up the rent on his liked mansion Royal Resort, by means of his older brother King Charles.
Chatting with HELLO!, Phil mentioned: “It is like a Greek tragedy; he is been stripped of the whole lot and humiliated. The deficient past due Queen could be completely heartbroken to look what is came about to the son who was once steadily known as her favorite.”
“It was once a complete surprise to me, and it is a very excessive measure,” the writer added. “This case is completely remarkable and an peculiar fall from grace for any individual who, when he was once born, was once 2d in line to the throne and returned from the Falklands a conflict hero.”
Andrew’s fall from grace
On Sunday, Andrew, 65, was once stripped of his remaining final honorary army identify since he passed again his different titles in 2022 over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Defence Secretary John Healey showed Andrew would now not dangle the honorary rank of vice-admiral, which he was once awarded on his fifty fifth birthday in 2015. The royal was once a part of the duty pressure deployed to retake the Falklands following the Argentinian invasion in 1982. He ended his energetic naval occupation in 2001 with the rank of commander however later gained honorary promotions together with to vice-admiral in 2015.
On Thursday, Buckingham Palace launched a observation pronouncing the surprise information that Andrew would lose his princely identify and transfer out of his house at the Windsor Property. He’s now dealing with a lifestyles in royal exile at the King’s non-public Sandringham Property in Norfolk and is anticipated to transport to an undisclosed assets within the new yr.
© ShutterstockThe observation got here after weeks of harmful headlines about Andrew’s friendship with the past due intercourse culprit Jeffrey Epstein and the newsletter of a posthumous memoir by means of his accuser, Virginia Giuffre. It had transform obvious that Andrew’s scenario was once overshadowing the paintings of the royal circle of relatives.
Andrew’s dwelling preparations
Some of the Sandringham homes mentioned to be into account is, paradoxically, York Cottage, a sprawling hotel that was once given by means of the longer term King Edward VII to his son the Duke of York, later George V, in 1893. In contrast to Royal Resort, which is a part of the Crown Property, the valuables is privately owned by means of the King, who may even privately supply budget for his brother – a transfer that His Majesty should hope will finish public scrutiny of Andrew’s monetary preparations, following reviews that he has paid no hire on Royal Resort for greater than twenty years.
© Getty PhotographsHELLO!’s Royal Editor Emily Nash stocks her response to Andrew’s “exceptional fall” on The Royal Membership and stocks her predictions at the former Prince’s subsequent strikes, together with his “exile” to Sandringham, what Sarah Ferguson will do subsequent and what’s going to come of Andrew’s position within the line of succession. Click on at the hyperlink under to learn now.
It’s not recognized if Andrew’s former spouse, Sarah Ferguson, who has lived with him at Royal Resort since 2008, will transfer to Norfolk with him. Sarah additionally misplaced her identify, Duchess of York, when her ex-husband Andrew agreed to surrender his Duke of York identify previous in October.
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