{"id":402138,"date":"2026-04-16T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:50:13","slug":"andrew-asked-to-give-up-freedom-of-london-city-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402138\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew asked to give up freedom of London City honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elected members of the City of London Corporation have agreed to write to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor inviting him to relinquish his freedom of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s former prince, the brother of King Charles, received the honour in 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/uk\/2026\/0219\/1559293-andrew-uk-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has come under mounting pressure over his behaviour and ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement a spokesperson for the local authority said: &#8220;Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received the freedom of the City of London in 2012 by virtue of patrimony, which is inherited as the child of a freeman and constitutes a legal right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Applications via patrimony are not considered or endorsed by our elected members, and there is no effective legal mechanism to remove this type of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Elected members have today agreed to write to Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, inviting him to formally relinquish the freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will consider the response received, if any, at a future meeting and determine what action may be taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elected members of the City of London Corporation have agreed to write to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor inviting him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-402138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}