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King Charles has ordered that his membership of the Order of the Garter, to which he was appointed in 2006, be removed. Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's appointment as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order is also to be cancelled and annulled, records published on London Gazette show.
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The British Defence Secretary would not comment on whether Andrew would be able to keep his medals, including the campaign medal he received for his service in the Falklands War, but said the Ministry of Defence would be "guided by the decisions the King makes". The move follows King Charles' decision to strip his brother of his peerages and the title of prince on Thursday amid the continuing fallout of the Epstein scandal.
There was a question over whether there had been, earlier in the day, a meeting between Prince William and the princesses, Beatrice and Eugenie, saying you guys have to get your dad to move out of Royal Lodge otherwise we will start re-examining the state of your own titles. They are at the moment allowed to be princesses, but there was a bit of pressure, we understand, being put on the princesses to say this is going to happen.
The former BBC anchor who famously grilled Prince Andrew about his scandalous friendship with Jeffrey Epstein revealed Tuesday that Prince William threatened to remove the royal titles of Andrew's daughters unless their disgraced father finally agreed to leave Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion he and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, occupy near Windsor Castle. Emily Maitlis said on her The News Agents podcast that the heir to the throne apparently met with his cousins, Princess Beatrice
In this article King Charles III acted briskly - as briskly as a Windsor ever does - and rather ruthlessly in dealing with his embattled brother. The king declared he was stripping Andrew of his "prince" title and that he would soon be leaving his Windsor lodgings. The fine print - that Andrew supposedly had an ironclad lease on Royal Lodge or that as the son of Queen Elizabeth II he was born a prince - turned out to be pesky details.