What to do with a 7ft metallic Prince Andrew – assist us determine from house to Pizza Express

HELP US DECIDE! Options includes taking it to Pizza Express in Woking, putting it in ‘stocks’ and letting the public pelt it with lettuces and launching it into space on a livestream

Daily Star readers have the privilege of deciding the destiny of the last likeness of “disgraced” Prince Andrew to be pulled off the facade of a historic central London pub. The new landlord of the Duke of York in Fitzrovia removed all traces of the troublesome Prince as it undergoes a revamp and name change.

The DS swooped in just to save a 7ft sheet metal poster of Ordinary Andy that appears to have been pelted with paintballs from being tossed in a dusty skip. Use our poll below to have your say on what happens to the recreation of the shamed Royal.

There are 10 options to choose from, including crushing it with a hydraulic press, taking it on a trip to its spiritual home Pizza Express in Woking, launching it into space on a weather balloon with a live stream or putting it in a “stock” for the public to pelt it with rotten tomatoes and even lettuces.

The good people of Sent Into Space have been advising us on how to send the pub sign to the edge of space on a weather balloon. The Prince could also end up on Uranus, which is famously part-owned by your Daily Star after we bought some of it back in 2020.

The imposing pub sign is a recreation of a much smaller portrait by Russian painter Igo Babailovby which the previous landlords bought and hung from the side of the pub in 2014. Publicans Alan Monks and Debi Sickelmore asked Buckingham Palace for permission to use the Royal’s likeness, which was approved.

Andrew’s daughter Princess Beatrice was even said to be a regular at the boozer. After hanging up the sign and portrait at a cost of £1,000, Debi said: “I remember her coming in with friends for a drink one night.

“So we went ahead and I found a portrait of him on the internet by the Russian painter Igo Babailov which is in a private collection.”

Debi and Alan defiantly stood by their Prince Andrew decorations in the wake his infamous car crash interview on Newsnight with Emily Maitlis.

Alan said at the time: ” There’s absolutely no reason that they should come down and I don’t care if people don’t like them. I repeat, the signs of Andrew are going nowhere, why should they? The pub will continue celebrating and honouring Prince Andrew and all the good work he does.”

The new Landlords of the pub McMullen and Sons told the Daily Star a hilarious joke before they removed the seven foot poster.

Pub group director Heydon Mizon previously told the Daily Star: “Would you like to buy a 7-foot pub sign that does not sweat?”, in reference to the Duke’s infamous Newsnight interview.

The pub, which has an interesting history, was thought to be the only boozer in the world featuring the likeness of a living royal. In the 1940s, the pub was a hangout for the Fitzrovia literary crowd, including Anthony Burgess who wrote A Clockwork Orange.

The landlord at the time, Major Alf Klein, initiated men into regulars by snipping off their ties. His collection eventually grew to more than 1,500 tie-ends.

Famous regulars through the years included David ‘Del Boy’ Jason, Ian Drury, Mellow Yellow singer Donovan, Rod Stewart, Paul Jones, Johnnie Ray, and John Lee Hooker.

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