Archie<\/a> and Princess Lilibet of Sussex.<\/p>\nMajesty Magazine\u2019s managing editor Joe Little told the PA news agency: \u201cI\u2019m sure at some point quite soon, somebody will ask, if they\u2019ve not already done so, why he hasn\u2019t been moved from the line of succession.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly it would take quite a catastrophe for him to become king given all those that are ahead of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo might it not have been tidier to withdraw him from the line of succession?\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrew is a counsellor of state, but this role has previously been described as \u201cinactive\u201d.<\/p>\n
Only \u201cworking members\u201d of the royal family would be called upon to carry out the sovereign\u2019s duties on a temporary basis as a counsellor of state in case of illness or overseas travel.<\/p>\n
Mr Little suggested it may have been \u201ctidier\u201d to remove that role from Andrew\u2019s portfolio too.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cit\u2019s not all bad\u201d for Andrew, who will move into an undisclosed private residence on the Sandringham Estate, the accommodation privately funded by the King, who will also make private financial provisions for his brother.<\/p>\n
Mr Little said: \u201cOn a personal level it must be pretty devastating and the ultimate humiliation for him, and we know him to be rather an arrogant character, but this has got to be taking its toll on him mentally. It would be very strange if it weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut nevertheless, the future, it\u2019s not looking particularly bleak.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he will no longer be in Windsor, but he\u2019ll be on a private royal estate in Norfolk, and will have accommodation provided and he will be supported in other ways by his brother, the King, for whom it\u2019s been, equally, a very difficult time.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo brother would want to do this to another sibling, but clearly this sanction has become necessary, and some would argue should have been taken a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Little said the latest development is a \u201cbig deal\u201d not only for Andrew but also for his daughters, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever they know about their father, and I suppose their mother given the more recent revelations, they are still their parents.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe upheaval and the tumult that the family is experiencing at the moment must be pretty devastating, you would think, on many levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Questions may be asked about why Andrew Mountbatten Windsor retains his place in the line of succession, a royal expert has said. The King\u2019s dramatic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2126801,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2126800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Questions-likely-over-Andrews-position-in-line-of-succession-\u2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126800","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=2126800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126802,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126800\/revisions\/2126802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}