{"id":2197923,"date":"2025-12-13T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2197923"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:10:38","slug":"andrew-mountbatten-windsor-stripped-of-his-last-remaining-honorary-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-stripped-of-his-last-remaining-honorary-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor stripped of his last remaining honorary title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been stripped of his final<br \/>\nhonorary title \u2013 two month after he lost his princely status.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/8e2b891c-9504-4339-bf20-6e250eb27261?shareToken=dc104e4d488b25854e091c393331e5e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Times,<\/a> the<br \/>\n65-year-old has been demoted from a Vice-Admiral to Commander in<br \/>\n\u2066the \u2066Royal Navy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/article\/8e2b891c-9504-4339-bf20-6e250eb27261?shareToken=dc104e4d488b25854e091c393331e5e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking to the publication,<\/a> a<br \/>\nMinistry of Defence spokesperson said: <em>\u201cFollowing formal<br \/>\nconsideration, Defence Council have agreed the immediate reversion<br \/>\nfrom the rank of Vice-Admiral to the rank of Commander (Retired)<br \/>\nRoyal Navy, the rank held on retirement from Regular Royal Naval<br \/>\nService by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. This decision aligns with<br \/>\nsuch processes as to remove other styles and titles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr Mountbatten-Windsor served in the navy for over 20 years.<br \/>\nThis included a stint in the Falklands War where he worked as a<br \/>\nhelicopter pilot.<\/p>\n<p>After his accuser, Virginia Guiffre, filed a civil case in New<br \/>\nYork three years ago, the King\u2019s brother stopped using\u00a0most of<br \/>\nhis military titles. However, he kept the rank of vice-admiral.<\/p>\n<p>For his time serving in the Royal Navy, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor<br \/>\nreceived a pension of approximately \u00a320,000 per year \u2013 hos only<br \/>\ndeclared source of income.<\/p>\n<p>The news of his demotion comes on the same day <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/uk\/andrew-police-statement-1225-215777\/\"><br \/>\nthe Metropolitan Police said it will \u201ctake no further action\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nagainst the former prince over claims he asked his police<br \/>\nprotection officer for information on his accuser.<\/p>\n<p>The Mail on Sunday alleged that Andrew gave the officer Virginia<br \/>\nGiuffre\u2019s date of birth and social security number.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations published in October date back to February 2011<br \/>\n\u2013 shortly after the picture of Andrew and Giuffre together was<br \/>\npublished.<\/p>\n<p>A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said their assessment \u201chas<br \/>\nnot revealed any additional evidence of criminal acts or<br \/>\nmisconduct\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mountbatten-Windsor has not commented on the latest<br \/>\nallegations, however, he has consistently denied all<br \/>\nwrongdoing.<\/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>Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been stripped of his final honorary title \u2013 two month after he lost his princely status. According to The Times, the 65-year-old has been demoted from a Vice-Admiral to Commander in \u2066the \u2066Royal Navy. Speaking to the publication, a Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: \u201cFollowing formal consideration, Defence Council have agreed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2197924,"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-2197923","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\/12\/Andrew-Mountbatten-Windsor-stripped-of-his-last-remaining-honorary-title.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197923","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=2197923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197925,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197923\/revisions\/2197925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}