{"id":2293897,"date":"2026-02-22T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2293897"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:50:09","slug":"brits-push-to-remove-ex-prince-andrew-from-royal-line-of-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brits-push-to-remove-ex-prince-andrew-from-royal-line-of-succession\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits push to remove ex-Prince Andrew from royal line of succession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The British government is pushing legislation to permanently remove the former Prince Andrew from the line of succession.<\/p>\n<p>The move will stop any chance the ex-royal, now simply known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, may one day become King of England.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders across Britain \u2014 from Labour to Conservative to Liberal Democrat \u2014 are lining up to deliver another blow in Andrew\u2019s spectacular fall from grace, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1kgv837wvdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew leaves Westminster Abbey following the coronation ceremony of Britain\u2019s King Charles and Queen Camilla, in London, Britain May 6, 2023. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of now, Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles in October due to his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, explosive connections that have become an escalating thorn in the royal family\u2019s side and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/20\/world-news\/ex-prince-andrew-was-treated-like-a-common-criminal-during-11-hours-in-custody\/\">culminated in his Thursday arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong>More coverage on ex-Prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor\u2019s arrest<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Defense Minister Luke Pollard told the BBC that taking Andrew out of the line of succession was the \u201cright thing to do\u201d and that the government had \u201cabsolutely\u201d been working with Buckingham Palace to stop the former prince from \u201cpotentially being a heartbeat away from the throne.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>British police arrested Andrew on Thursday. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The move would require an act of Parliament. The case will then go to King Charles for his approval.<\/p>\n<p>The last time someone was removed from the line of succession by an act of Parliament was in 1936, when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The body made sure neither he nor his descendants could ever undo the decision.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/20\/world-news\/inside-covert-police-op-to-arrest-ex-prince-andrew-from-having-rights-read-to-fingerprints-mugshot\/\">London police arrested Andrew on his 66th birthday<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/20\/opinion\/ex-prince-andrews-arrest-letters\/\"> <\/a>on suspicion of misconduct in office following weeks of new revelations about his dealings with the convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>He was released from police custody 11 hours later \u2014 \u201cunder investigation,\u201d as Thames Valley Police said later in a statement, meaning he has been neither charged nor exonerated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Prince Andrew, Duke of York attends the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey on May 06, 2023 in London, England. <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>King Charles III vowed his full support for police, stressing \u201cthe law must take its course.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government is pushing legislation to permanently remove the former Prince Andrew from the line of succession. The move will stop any chance the ex-royal, now simply known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, may one day become King of England. Political leaders across Britain \u2014 from Labour to Conservative to Liberal Democrat \u2014 are lining up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2293898,"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":[403835,353542,372564,22942,183049,22769,22814],"class_list":["post-2293897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-arrest","tag-british","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-royal-family","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Brits-push-to-remove-ex-Prince-Andrew-from-royal-line-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293897","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=2293897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293899,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293897\/revisions\/2293899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}