The sign on the Windsor gate hadn’t changed yet. But on paper – and in the eyes of millions of Britons – “Prince Andrew, Duke of York” no longer exists.
In the space of a few weeks, King Charles signed letters patent stripping his younger brother of the style “His Royal Highness”, the title “prince” and the dukedom of York, rebranding him in the official record as “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor” and ordering him to surrender his 75-year lease on Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion he’s called home for two decades.
So what is this, really? A humiliated monarch finally cutting off a “toxic” sibling – or a last-ditch attempt to stop Andrew’s scandal from dragging the entire House of Windsor down with him?
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