{"id":2132625,"date":"2025-11-03T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132625"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:19:14","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-to-lose-his-last-military-title-at-king-charless-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-to-lose-his-last-military-title-at-king-charless-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to lose his last military title at King Charles&#8217;s request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The government is set to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor\u2019s<br \/>\nlast military title at the request of King Charles, said its<br \/>\nSecretary of State for Defence.<\/p>\n<p>John Healey, the Secretary of State for Defence, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8675l25591o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared on BBC\u2019s <em>Sunday with Laura<br \/>\nKuenssberg<\/em><\/a> and told the host that King Charles has<br \/>\nrequested that his brother\u2019s rank of Vice Admiral of the Royal Navy<br \/>\nbe removed.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a move that\u2019s right, it\u2019s a move the King has<br \/>\nindicated we should take and we\u2019re working on that at the<br \/>\nmoment,\u201d<\/em> Healey said.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">While Andrew<br \/>\nMountbatten Windsor lost all of his honorary military appointments<br \/>\nin 2022, he retained his military rank. Queen Elizabeth II<br \/>\nappointed her second son with the rank of Vice Admiral on his<br \/>\nbirthday in 2015.<\/h5>\n<p>Healey said: <em>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen Andrew surrender the honorary<br \/>\npositions he\u2019s had throughout the military. Guided again by the<br \/>\nking, we are working now to remove that last remaining title of<br \/>\nvice-admiral that he has.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/royal-news\/prince-andrew-title-2-214952\/\"><br \/>\nLast week, King Charles announced<\/a> that he would begin the<br \/>\nprocess of removing all of Andrew\u2019s titles and styles. The move<br \/>\ncame after Andrew announced that he would stop using his titles,<br \/>\nthough they would still be retained.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles will send Royal Warrants to the Lord Chancellor to<br \/>\nhave the titles Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, Baron Killyleagh,<br \/>\nPrince of the United Kingdom removed from the Peerage Roll. The<br \/>\nstyle of His Royal Highness will also be stricken; and the honours<br \/>\nof the Order of the Garter and the Royal Victorian Order will be<br \/>\nstripped from Andrew officially as well.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew will also be required to leave Royal Lodge. King Charles<br \/>\nwill move his younger brother to a home on the Sandringham Estate,<br \/>\nwhich is privately owned by the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>  <\/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 royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is set to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor\u2019s last military title at the request of King Charles, said its Secretary of State for Defence. John Healey, the Secretary of State for Defence, appeared on BBC\u2019s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg and told the host that King Charles has requested that his brother\u2019s rank of Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132626,"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-2132625","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\/11\/Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-to-lose-his-last-military-title-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132625","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=2132625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132627,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132625\/revisions\/2132627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}