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He’s lost his titles, his house and his prestige, but the former Prince Andrew has gained a hyphen.
The disgraced royal is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, not – as previously announced – Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
This change brings the style of the name in line with the double-barreled surname chosen by the late Queen Elizabeth II 65 years ago to his descendants.
It combines the royal family name Windsor, chosen by King George V in 1917, with Mountbatten, the surname of the Queen’s husband, the Prince. philip,
The Queen had initially decided to use Windsor alone, causing her husband to complain that he was the only person in England not allowed to give his name to their children.
Elizabeth took a softer stance and in an official announcement on February 8, 1960, days before the birth of her son Andrew, said: “Descendants other than my descendants enjoying the style title or title of Royal Highness and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess and female descendants who marry and their descendants shall bear the name of Mountbatten-Windsor.”
The hyphen was added after palace officials studied the 1960 declaration.
King Charles III On October 30, it was announced that he was stripping his brother of his titles and evicting him from his royal residence near Windsor Castle due to his links with a sex offender. Jeffrey Epstein,
The palace has been under increasing pressure to move the 65-year-old prince out of his Royal Lodge home amid new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed attention to allegations of sexual abuse by one of Epstein’s victims. Virginia Roberts GiuffreWhose posthumous memoir was published last month.
The King went even further to punish Mountbatten-Windsor for his serious lapse of judgment by removing the title of Prince which he had held by birth.
Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied Giuffre’s allegations.