{"id":596950,"date":"2026-05-21T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596950\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:33:08","slug":"andrew-ignores-freedom-of-the-city-of-london-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596950\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew ignores Freedom of the City of London request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czr0vj13ezjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czr0vj13ezjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19 February<\/a>, his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations he shared sensitive information with Epstein during his time as the UK&#8217;s trade envoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was later stripped by the King of both his right to be a prince and his dukedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Freedom of the City of London tradition dates back to 1237 and originally allowed people to carry out their trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Corporation said it does not have the power to remove the Freedom because it is not an honour or office but a property right protected under both domestic law and the European Convention on Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The court said officers had been instructed to begin proceedings to enable it to &#8220;lawfully remove the Freedom of the City&#8221; from the former royal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew inherited the Freedom of the City of London by patrimony, as the child of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who was awarded it in 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on 19 February, his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office following allegations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596950","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=596950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}