Overview
- Buckingham Palace said the King has initiated the formal process to remove Andrew’s royal styles and honours and announced he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
- The removals cover Prince and His Royal Highness as well as the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, Baron Killyleagh and honours including the Order of the Garter and Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order.
- The move follows renewed sexual-abuse allegations reported from the posthumous memoir of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which Andrew denies.
- Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will retain their titles, according to coverage of the palace announcement.
- Observers noted the palace styled his name without the usual hyphen in Mountbatten-Windsor, even though the 1960 Privy Council decision established that hyphenated surname for the Queen’s direct descendants when a surname is required.