{"id":208058,"date":"2025-10-18T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:33:12","slug":"how-prince-andrew-lost-his-titles-and-the-ones-charles-cant-take-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208058\/","title":{"rendered":"How Prince Andrew lost his titles \u2014 and the ones Charles can\u2019t take away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Andrew is left with just two vestiges of his former status, which are protected by law: his title of prince and his accommodation at Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n

Letters patent issued by George V in 1917 and updated by the late Queen in 2012 stipulate that a child of a monarch shall have the \u201ctitular dignity\u201d of prince or princess and \u201cenjoy the style, title or attribute\u201d of His or Her Royal Highness. <\/p>\n

The same honour extends to the children of the monarch\u2019s sons, and the children of the Prince of Wales\u2019s eldest son.<\/p>\n

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George V intended the rule to be a way to limit the number of people using the titles.<\/p>\n

It means Andrew will always be a prince, and his daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie<\/a>, are princesses, but their children do not have royal titles.<\/p>\n

Andrew\u2019s decision to voluntarily relinquish his other titles, Duke of York and Knight of the Garter, saves the King from taking official and legal steps.<\/p>\n

Extinguishing a dukedom requires an act of parliament so the King is said to be glad to have saved Westminster the extra work.<\/p>\n

To remove a Knight of the Garter is not straightforward, either.<\/p>\n

Andrew has held the position since 2006, when he was appointed to the Order of the Garter along with his brother Prince Edward.<\/p>\n

For the last four years Andrew has agreed to stay away from what one source described as the \u201ctheatrics\u201d of the annual Garter Day parade<\/a> through the streets of Windsor. But he was still permitted to attend the private lunch at the castle.<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/p>\n

Andrew at the Garter Day parade in 2014<\/p>\n

CHRIS JACKSON\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n

Taking the ancient chivalric honour away is known as a \u201cdegradation\u201d and is usually as a result of a crime such as treason and heresy. The last formal degradation was the 2nd Duke of Ormond in 1716, although more recently Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Joseph I of Austria simply had the honour removed during the First World War.<\/p>\n

Others who have had honours withdrawn in disgrace include Robert Mugabe and Benito Mussolini, who both lost their honorary knighthoods. Stepping back from the role preserves some dignity for Andrew.<\/p>\n

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There is one battle that Charles has not yet won. For more than a year the King has been trying to oust Andrew from Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n

Charles believes that the palatial 42-room home on the Windsor estate is not fitting for someone of Andrew\u2019s reduced status. Andrew, however, refuses to leave.<\/p>\n

\"Royal<\/p>\n

Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, where Andrew lives with his former wife, Sarah<\/p>\n

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The long-running battl<\/a>e is what a friend of the King has referred to as \u201cthe siege of Royal Lodge\u201d.<\/p>\n

Andrew has a legally binding lease with the Crown Estate which lasts for the rest of his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Providing he can afford to keep paying for the necessary upkeep and security on the property, he can continue to stay there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew is left with just two vestiges of his former status, which are protected by law: his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-208058","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\/208058","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=208058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}