{"id":2128500,"date":"2025-11-01T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128500"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:40:12","slug":"queen-elizabeth-never-would-have-removed-her-son-andrews-prince-title-an-expert-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/queen-elizabeth-never-would-have-removed-her-son-andrews-prince-title-an-expert-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth Never Would Have Removed Her Son Andrew\u2019s Prince Title, an Expert Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"54183fb2-b194-400c-8094-20cd8a3c73d5\">After weeks of backlash following the latest round of revelations about <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\">Prince Andrew<\/a>&#8216;s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/buckingham-palace\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/buckingham-palace\/\">Buckingham Palace<\/a> announced this week that the disgraced royal was being stripped of his &#8220;Prince&#8221; title and will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to strip Andrew of his Prince title (as well as to evict him from Royal Lodge, the royal residence he and his ex-wife, <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sarah-ferguson\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sarah-ferguson\/\">Sarah Ferguson<\/a>, have called home since 2003), was ultimately <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-charles\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-charles\/\">King Charles<\/a>&#8216; to make. While <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/king-charles-feeling-relief-after-stripping-prince-andrew-of-titles\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/king-charles-feeling-relief-after-stripping-prince-andrew-of-titles\/\">royal experts largely agree that the move must have been a difficult one for Charles<\/a> to make about his younger brother, royal author Christopher Andersen says the move likely wouldn&#8217;t have happened at all if the late Queen Elizabeth were still on the throne.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"54183fb2-b194-400c-8094-20cd8a3c73d5-2\">\u201cThis must have been a painful decision for the King \u2014 this is his brother, after all,\u201d Andersen told <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/queen-elizabeth-ii-would-have-never-removed-andrews-title-excl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/queen-elizabeth-ii-would-have-never-removed-andrews-title-excl\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>. \u201cCharles must know how much booting Andrew out of the royal family would have hurt his mother, the late queen. I can\u2019t imagine <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/queen-elizabeth-ii\/\">Elizabeth II<\/a> would have ever gone this far\u2014not ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n<span class=\"&#10;after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid&#10;before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As <em>Us Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s report points out, Andrew was &#8220;famously the late queen\u2019s &#8216;favorite&#8217; child, and Andersen says that was the case \u201cto the very end\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did what she could to protect him,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Although formally stripping Andrew of his Prince title must have been a difficult step for the King to take, another royal expert and friend of the monarch says it&#8217;s one that likely also left him feeling relieved.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Dimbleby, who became a close friend of the monarch after writing a <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FPrince-Wales-Biography-Jonathan-Dimbleby%2Fdp%2F068812996X%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dmarieclaireus-us-1484859278121482497-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FPrince-Wales-Biography-Jonathan-Dimbleby%2Fdp%2F068812996X%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dmarieclaireus-us-7118690729814683385-20\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=141596&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FPrince-Wales-Biography-Jonathan-Dimbleby%2Fdp%2F068812996X%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonus\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\">biography on him in 1994<\/a>, told the BBC that Andrew&#8217;s own behavior and attitude over the years was what ultimately made the demotion necessary.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-JVMqqCyncijXE5Xb25zvJm\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-JVMqqCyncijXE5Xb25zvJm slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get exclusive access to fashion and beauty trends, hot-off-the-press celebrity news, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI suspect he will be feeling a measure of relief. His brother\u2014this is not an easy thing for any brother to do, to be banished, eternal imprisonment in a way, on <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sandringham-house\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/sandringham-house\/\">Sandringham<\/a> Estate,&#8221; Dimbleby said (per the <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/king-charles-banished-boorish-andrew-36166764\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/royals\/king-charles-banished-boorish-andrew-36166764\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"><em>Mirror<\/em><\/a>). \u201cWe know his brother was boorish, arrogant, entitled, that he made an awful lot of bad friendships, all sorts of questions about how he got his own money\u2014there is a lot that will be discussed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Dimbleby said, Charles had to what was best for the monarchy, especially since Andrew&#8217;s scandals are likely to continue to rage on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are further investigations, which I&#8217;m sure there will be into Andrew himself, the King himself will be quite separate from that and more importantly the institution of the monarchy will be detached from that,&#8221; Dimbleby added.<\/p>\n<p>This aligns with the explanation <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/buckingham-palace\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/buckingham-palace\/\"><u>Buckingham Palace<\/u><\/a> offered in the official <a target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/king-charles-removes-andrews-title-evicts-royal-lodge\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/celebrity\/royals\/king-charles-removes-andrews-title-evicts-royal-lodge\/\"><u>statement announcing that Andrew would be stripped of his Prince title<\/u><\/a> and evicted from Royal Lodge, which read, in part:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and upmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"block\" id=\"articleTag\" data-component-name=\"PostArticleLinks\">\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n<nav class=\"py-2.5 flex gap-2.5 flex-wrap\" data-analytics-id=\"article-tag\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/queen-elizabeth-ii\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/queen-elizabeth-ii\"><br \/>\nQueen Elizabeth II<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/tag\/prince-andrew\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/prince-andrew\"><br \/>\nPrince Andrew<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\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.marieclaire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of backlash following the latest round of revelations about Prince Andrew&#8216;s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Buckingham Palace announced this week that the disgraced royal was being stripped of his &#8220;Prince&#8221; title and will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. 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