{"id":207126,"date":"2025-10-17T18:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207126\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:48:07","slug":"prince-andrew-gives-up-royal-titles-including-duke-of-york-after-discussion-with-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207126\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after &#8216;discussion with King&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Andrew to remain a prince after giving up titlespublished at 19:27 BST<\/p>\n<p>19:27 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13bf5b1d-a9ac-4e2d-82c9-ef0c272f7ef1.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Sean Coughlan<br \/>Royal correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prince Andrew in black suit and tie looking grim while attending the funeral of the Duchess of Kent in September 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1b6f17e6-2f96-4410-af82-ea5a7900233d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince Andrew is to give up his titles, including the Duke of York, he has announced in a personal statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been under increasing pressure for his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with calls for the Palace to take action against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That now seems to have resulted in the prince deciding to voluntarily hand back his titles and to give up membership of the Order of the Garter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prince Andrew has faced a series of scandals, including a court case he settled with Virginia Giuffre, questions about his finances and his involvement with an alleged Chinese spy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will remain a prince &#8211; but will cease to be the Duke of York, a title received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew to remain a prince after giving up titlespublished at 19:27 BST 19:27 BST Sean CoughlanRoyal correspondent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-207126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}