Overview
- The Times reports the Palace is considering styling his name as Mountbatten-Windsor, though no formal decision has been announced.
- When his titles were removed last month, the Palace named him Andrew Mountbatten Windsor without a hyphen, a form reportedly agreed with him.
- Queen Elizabeth II’s 1960 Privy Council declaration set Mountbatten-Windsor for descendants without royal styles, and Andrew was the first royal baby registered under that name.
- Precedent includes Princess Anne’s 1973 marriage register and Archie’s birth certificate using the hyphenated Mountbatten-Windsor, and royal historians expressed surprise at the omission.
- King Charles formally stripped Andrew of his styles, titles and honours and served notice to surrender the Royal Lodge lease, with parliamentary attention turning to the terms of his relocation.