The King has formally removed Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s prince title and his HRH style by issuing a Letters Patent. Details of the Letters Patent have been published by the Crown Office in The Gazette, the UK’s official public record.
The entry read: “THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of ‘Royal Highness’ and the titular dignity of ‘Prince’.”
The news comes after we reported how King Charles won’t take away Andrew’s Falklands War medal for flying a Sea King helicopter in the deadly 1982 conflict, even if the former Prince has lost just about everything else.
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Buckingham Palace announced last week that the ex-Duke of York, 65, is now just Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The Palace said the “censures [were] deemed necessary” as the fallout from Andrew’s links with late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein continues.
He has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
The former royal has vanished from the Roll of the Peerage. John Healey, the Defence Secretary, then rubbed salt on his wounds on Sunday by hinting Andrew could also lose his military medals. “Just as with his vice-admiral rank and title, we would be guided by the decisions the King makes,” he said.
But the Palace has now said Andrew will keep his operational service medals, including the one he won in the Falklands. The disgraced royal served for 22 years in the navy. As co-pilot of a Sea King helicopter he carried out anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, casualty evacuation, and search and rescue missions.
Veterans have said it would be “morally indefensible” to confiscate his active service medals.
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