{"id":2106257,"date":"2025-10-21T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106257"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:07:20","slug":"buckingham-palaces-statement-on-prince-andrew-was-a-missed-opportunity-for-king-charles-says-royal-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/buckingham-palaces-statement-on-prince-andrew-was-a-missed-opportunity-for-king-charles-says-royal-biographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace&#8217;s statement on Prince Andrew was a &#8216;missed opportunity&#8217; for King Charles, says royal biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"e01wZidqj8\" data-wc=\"57\">At 7pm on Friday 17 October, the royal world was rocked by the shocking news that <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/prince-andrew\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">Prince Andrew<\/a> would <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/862269\/prince-andrew-loses-titles-scandals\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">finally be giving up his titles<\/a>, including the Duke of York, and honours, which include his membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain, following &#8220;discussions with the King&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p id=\"evGDyG3bTL4\" data-wc=\"32\">The news was released via a statement by the Prince through Buckingham Palace, titled: A Statement by Prince Andrew, despite the Palace previously denying that it still acted as his press office.<\/p>\n<p id=\"etOL-FQRtr7\" data-wc=\"47\">In a special audio-only episode of A Right Royal Podcast, hosts Andrea Caamano and HELLO! editor Emily Nash spoke to bestselling author Andrew Lownie, who wrote <em>Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York<\/em>. Andrew described the statement as a &#8220;lost opportunity&#8221; for <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/king-charles\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">the King<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"evRPWkeYyiy\" data-wc=\"22\">&#8220;I think it was a lost opportunity. The statement should have come from King Charles himself &#8211; that he&#8217;d taken decisive action.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fr-embedded\">\n<div data-wc=\"75\" id=\"eFkNHgtVCl\">\n<figure class=\"he-meIm-995f02\"><figcaption class=\"he-meImCa-17135c3\">The statement was released at 7pm on Friday 17th October<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"evXlVKFrWBa\" data-wc=\"45\">&#8220;He should have actually taken the credit for this. We had this statement from Andrew it was his decision to stand down five years ago, when of course it had been forced upon him\u2026 just absolutely ridiculous stuff that no one really believed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eKkAxFqzsvr\" data-wc=\"24\">&#8220;They turned what could actually have been a good way of dealing with the problem into a bigger crisis than it had been before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fr-embedded\">\n<div data-wc=\"75\" id=\"e6YvKCOjzI\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"spEmDe-196871f\">\n<p><b><i>LISTEN: Royal author Andrew Lownie reveals what Prince Andrew&#8217;s exile could look like<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Web Player\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=HELLO7434118028\" width=\"100%\" height=\"210\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"e1oTJTKNbGk\" data-wc=\"48\">In the special podcast episode, Andrew goes into detail about what Prince Andrew&#8217;s life in exile could look like, whether he could lose his Princely title and what would happen to his daughter if he does so, as well as <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/862795\/royal-biographer-details-the-only-way-prince-andrew-could-leave-his-30-room-royal-home-royal-lodge\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">how Prince Andrew could finally leave Royal Lodge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 7pm on Friday 17 October, the royal world was rocked by the shocking news that Prince Andrew would finally be giving up his titles, including the Duke of York, and honours, which include his membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain, following &#8220;discussions with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24083,22931,363245,24214],"class_list":["post-2106257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-royals","tag-prince-andrew","tag-right-royal-podcast","tag-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Buckingham-Palaces-statement-on-Prince-Andrew-was-a-missed-opportunity.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106259,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106257\/revisions\/2106259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}