{"id":2193264,"date":"2025-12-10T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2193264"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:00:22","slug":"just-as-andrew-thought-hed-nothing-left-to-lose-theres-1-final-snub-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/just-as-andrew-thought-hed-nothing-left-to-lose-theres-1-final-snub-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Just as Andrew thought he&#8217;d nothing left to lose there&#8217;s 1 final snub | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There was a time if you asked the-then <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\">Prince Andrew<\/a> if he fancied a few birdies at the weekend, he would assume Jeffrey Epstein was inviting him to his island again. We also all know &#8216;Air Miles Andy&#8217; loves nothing better than playing 18 holes &#8211; even more than &#8216;Randy Andy&#8217; liked playing the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts the one-time Duke of York, 65, is an accomplished golfer and, of course, was once the captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, based in St Andrews in <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/scotland\">Scotland<\/a> &#8211; the home of the sport. So nothing will shatter his prickly and infamously <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2143946\/fresh-humiliation-andrew-mountbatten-windsor\">inflated ego<\/a> more than this latest damning humiliation in the wake of the <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Jeffrey Epstein\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> scandal &#8211; the Duke&#8217;s course at St Andrews (named after him in 1995) <a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2143875\/fresh-humiliation-andrew-golf-course\">is being rebranded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The heathland Duke&#8217;s Course, which is three miles from the centre of the Fife university town, will become the Craigtoun Course, renamed after a nearby country park.<\/p>\n<p>As the country park has never repeatedly emailed the shamed US paedophile sex trafficker, it&#8217;s a much safer bet than keeping Andrew&#8217;s old royal name.<\/p>\n<p>Over the decades nothing warmed an impoverished Brit&#8217;s cockles more during a cost-of-living crisis than seeing the then-<a target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\">Prince Andrew<\/a> land on a golf course in a helicopter for a quick putt or two.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s finances may be going to the dogs but at least taxpayers can help Andrew chip in on a long par four to save his par.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This is how his Air Miles Andy moniker came about.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 he once took a 113-mile taxpayer-funded helicopter trip from Windsor to the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal for a party.<\/p>\n<p>It took 45 minutes and cost you and I thousands but in his defence the same journey by train would have been a gruelling three and a half hours &#8211; including a Tube ride &#8211; and cost around \u00a330.70.<\/p>\n<p>An official report by the National Audit Office (NAO) previously slammed him for using the late Queen&#8217;s helicopter and RAF aircraft &#8220;like taxis&#8221; for personal convenience, such as to &#8220;fit in an extra round of golf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The shame of his associations with Epstein has sunk his royal career quicker than a hole-in-one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He&#8217;s already no longer a prince, Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh or Colonel of the Grenadier Guards &#8211; and has been shorn of the Order of the Garter and the Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s also lost several overseas honorary roles, including colonel-in-chief of The Royal Highland Fusiliers Of Canada, and colonel-in-chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment.<\/p>\n<p>Soon he and Sarah Ferguson will also be booted from Royal Lodge, at Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>Both have been found to have associated or communicated with the disgraced New York financier for longer than they originally and publicly claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; after already giving up his honorary membership to St Andrews as part of his retreat from public life &#8211; Andrew faces the shame of seeing first streets named after him being renamed, now an entire golf course.<\/p>\n<p>The course and club are also to come under the management of the St Andrews Links Trust on a long-term lease, with the club&#8217;s logo also being changed, to remove the royal association.<\/p>\n<p>The trust already runs seven public courses around Fife, including the world famous Old Course, which hosts the Open Championship every five years.<\/p>\n<p>A press release confirmed the course would take on a &#8220;revitalised identity&#8221; but it did not mention the former prince.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew is slowly being hooked into the long grass. For the Royal Family it cannot come quickly enough.<\/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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time if you asked the-then Prince Andrew if he fancied a few birdies at the weekend, he would assume Jeffrey Epstein was inviting him to his island again. 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