At the time, the Queen allowed her son to remain a Counsellor of State, to retain his dukedom and service rank of vice-admiral, despite pressure to strip him of all remaining privileges.
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The King later appointed his siblings – the Princess Royal and the Duke of Edinburgh – as Counsellors of State, as it was made clear that only working members of the family would ever be called upon to carry out the sovereign’s duties temporarily in the case of illness or overseas travel. Andrew’s role has since been described as “inactive”.
In October, in the face of mounting pressure over Andrew’s relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the King forced Andrew to relinquish his dukedom.
Having then “taken the public temperature” and recognised that he needed to act further, the monarch stripped his brother of all remaining royal titles, rendering him a commoner known simply as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, while also evicting him from Royal Lodge, his Windsor mansion.
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The Telegraph revealed last month that Andrew would retain his Falklands War campaign medal alongside all operational service medals, after veterans warned it would be “morally indefensible” to take a medal earned through active service.
Telegraph, London
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