{"id":776010,"date":"2026-09-19T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776010\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:58:21","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-forced-to-give-up-controversial-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776010\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor forced to give up controversial item"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> was forced out of Royal Lodge, moving to Norfolk in January this year – but there’s one item he couldn’t take with him. The ex-prince had a headline-making ancient sword, which was involved in a public ruse. Back in 2016, it was reported that Princess Beatrice<\/a> was behind a scar on the British singer Ed Sheeran<\/a>‘s face.<\/p>\n

She reportedly used the sword to pretend to “knight” the British singer Sir James Blunt before he was actually knighted, at a party she held at Royal Lodge. The story goes that, as she performed the action, Beatrice accidentally cut Ed Sheeran’s face while he was standing behind his fellow singer.<\/p>\n

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Andrew lived at Royal Lodge for decades (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

James Blunt<\/a> revealed that the story was a complete fabrication. “Ed<\/a> was drunk, messing around and he cut himself,” the star told Shortlist. “We made a fancy story up; people fell for it. It was very embarrassing.”<\/p>\n

Asked how much of the story had been invented, he replied: “All of it. Apart from the actual scar. It’s bizarre that people fell for it.”<\/p>\n

James joked: “I blame him. He must be desperate – he’s trying to sell records. He cut himself and I just patched him up. It’s made him look prettier.”<\/p>\n

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In the made-up story, Princess Beatrice jokingly used the sword (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

James<\/a> had also hinted the story was made up during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show: “If he [Ed] said his face got cut while she was ‘knighting’ me then dashed to A&E before returning to the party, then he is a liar,” the singer told the chat show host.<\/p>\n

“For a start, she is a princess and would be rehearsed and practised in these matters, and given the NHS waiting lists, it would have been impossible to get to hospital and back so quickly.”<\/p>\n

At the time of Andrew<\/a>‘s move, The Times reported a long list of items that would not be moving with him.<\/p>\n

The list included historical artworks and other priceless artefacts from his former home, which were set to be returned to the Royal Collection Trust.<\/p>\n

The collection is one of the largest and most important in the world, held in trust by the King as Sovereign for his successors and the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was forced out of Royal Lodge, moving to Norfolk in January this year – but there’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776010","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=776010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}