There was a time when Prince Andrew was seen as the golden boy, the Falklands war hero and dashing helicopter pilot who could do no wrong.
Even before his time in the Royal Navy, Andrew was widely admired as a fresh-faced prince with the charm and charisma that his older brother Charles could only dream of.
Andrew, Charles said, was “the one with the Robert Redford looks of the family”.
Prince Andrew is set to give up all of his titles, including the Duke of York, the Telegraph understands.
The development follows a string of new scandals concerning his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
It is understood he will put all his titles “in abeyance” having come under huge pressure from the King.
The Royals have suffered a lot of damage. Can they recover?
Prince Andrew met the top Chinese official at the centre of the Beijing spy case at least three times, The Telegraph can reveal.
The Duke of York held meetings in 2018 and 2019 with Cai Qi, one of the most senior members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and a close ally of Xi Jinping, China’s president.
Mr Cai is understood to be the final recipient of sensitive information allegedly passed to China by Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash, the two British nationals accused of spying for Beijing.
Prince Andrew allegedly told convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “we are in this together” the day after the picture of him with Virginia Giuffre was published.
The Duke of York is reported to have told the late Epstein he was “concerned” for him after the revelations in the media in February 2011 and added: “We’ll play some more soon!”
It appears to contradict a claim he made on BBC’s Newsnight in November 2019, where he told Emily Maitlis he “never had any contact” with Epstein after the pair were pictured walking together in New York’s Central Park in December 2010.
The King has signalled that Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York, will not be welcome at the royal family’s Christmas celebrations this year.
Sources close to Charles indicated he will keep the duke and duchess at arm’s length after it emerged that Sarah maintained ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted paedophile, despite publicly denouncing him in 2011.
The King has also made clear that he would prefer the pair, who divorced in 1996, to be “invisible” at future gatherings.
It is tempting to imagine Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson enduring a mutually resentful existence in Royal Lodge. Like an aristocratic version of Roald Dahl’s The Twits, perhaps. Or, to be vulgar, one might call them The Twats instead. The less-than-grand old Duke of York has now spent several years beset by stories linking him to disgraced paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and there seems to be no way back for him in any kind of public role. Yet, at the beginning of the week, he might have thought the tide had turned for a couple of days. For once, it was Fergie who was bearing the brunt of deeply unflattering headlines when it emerged that, after publicly denouncing Epstein as a sex offender in 2011, she had sent him a grovelling email describing him as a ‘steadfast, generous and supreme friend’.
LONDON — It was June 2019, and the president of the United States was taking tea with the future British king.
The meeting between Donald Trump and then Prince Charles was scheduled to last 15 minutes. It stretched to an hour and a half.
Trump could barely get a word in edgeways. Charles did “most of the talking,” the president told a TV interviewer the day after they met.
Who wants to make time for a climate nag?
On a damp Wednesday morning in Cardiff, at a poignant event marking World Suicide Prevention Day, the Prince of Wales spoke his mind. What we need to “get back to in society”, he said, is “people really seeing each other and reaching each other”. For Prince William and Prince Harry, estranged for three years, there was no hope last week that Harry’s four-day visit would involve either brother reaching out.
But reconciliation between father and son has moved the dial. How far, nobody knows but Harry and the King. There has been no post-match analysis from either camp about their 50-minute tea at Clarence House on Wednesday afternoon and, unlike after previous meetings, no words from Harry about the state of the relationship, other than to tell the media at an Invictus reception that his father was “great”.
In an office at a federal courthouse in downtown Tallahassee, the capital city of Florida, Ghislaine Maxwell tasted something resembling freedom last month.
Outside of prison for the first time since being convicted of child sex trafficking crimes, she sat before Todd Blanche, President Trump’s deputy attorney-general, for two interviews on July 24 and 25. The first lasted six hours, the second half as long.
Britain’s King Charles III is receiving praise for his “momentous” commitment to diversity after both a Ramadan meal and an “LGBT+ History Month” lecture were held at Windsor Castle this year—although not, of course, at the same time. The House of Windsor has become a microcosm of the United Kingdom, slowly being squeezed between the pincers of LGBT sexual revolutionaries and an exploding Muslim population (Muhammad recently became the most popular name in England for the first time).
Environmentalism is the ultimate ‘luxury belief’.
It’s not becoming to boast, but I was an extremely early sceptic when it comes to matters ecological. In 1990, I wrote a short play – starring Lesley Manville, who has since risen to stellar heights – for the Royal Court in London. It made a frankly biased, unreasonable, anti-green argument which I have had no reason whatsoever to regret ever since. If anything, I feel even more strongly that environmentalism – which has now ‘grown’ to include those adolescent maniacs who chuck muck over masterpieces – is the ‘luxury belief’ to top them all.
Two thirds of Britons support stripping Prince Andrew of his remaining royal titles, new research has shown.
According to YouGov polling, 67 per cent of the population would back a move by the Royal Family to remove any remaining vestiges of his former position.
The most well known title held by the late Queen’s second son is the Duke of York, a title given to him on his wedding day to Sarah Ferguson in 1986.
When Andrew Lownie submitted his manuscript for his incendiary book about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, he was braced for heavy legal redactions. But in the end there were far fewer deletions than feared. “I was surprised by what the lawyers let through,” he tells me.
The result of this leniency is among the most lurid, marmalade-dropping, outlandish books published about a senior royal. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York makes Prince Harry’s Spare look positively restrained.
Andrew and Harry are destroying the Monarchy.
Prince Harry has been hit with a wave of criticism in the Channel 5 documentary Prince Harry: My Terrible Year, with royal experts savaging both his behaviour and his struggling media ventures. Royal biographer Ingrid Seward accused Harry of crossing the line when it came to Princess Kate, telling viewers: “He rubbished Kate for money he didn’t even need – that will not be easily forgiven.” The remark referred to claims Harry has made in recent years, which some insiders say have worsened family tensions.
Jeffrey Epstein sold Prince Andrew’s “most intimate secrets” to foreign intelligence agencies around the world, a new book has claimed.
Compromising material on the Duke of York is alleged to have been passed to Israel’s Mossad, the Saudi Arabian authorities and the Libyan intelligence services under Colonel Gaddafi.
Details of the claims are made in a new book on the prince, by author Andrew Lownie, which describes how the royal was easy prey for a “rattlesnake” like Epstein.
