Overview
- Officials say the current styling remains Andrew Mountbatten Windsor without a hyphen, a form agreed with him when his titles were removed last month.
- Palace sources report a reconsideration of future usage after reviewing the 1960 declaration, with no formal change announced.
- Royal historian Ian Lloyd and others voiced surprise at the hyphenless version, citing established precedent for Mountbatten-Windsor.
- Official records have long used the hyphenated form, including Princess Anne’s 1973 marriage certificate and Archie Harrison’s 2019 birth certificate.
- Coverage situates the naming question in the fallout from Andrew losing his princely title and dukedom over his association with Jeffrey Epstein.