the late Queen Elizabeth II would have had a lot of feelings about the ongoing drama surrounding the son Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
“It’s like a Greek tragedy – he’s been stripped of everything and humiliated,” said the royal author Phil Dampier he said hi! magazine in an article published on Tuesday, November 4. “The poor late Queen would be absolutely heartbroken to see what has become of the son who was often referred to as her favorite.”
Dampier, who has been writing about the royal family for more than two decades, said it was “a complete shock” when news broke that Andrew had been stripped of his princely title.
“It is a very extreme measure,” he added. “This situation is totally unprecedented and an extraordinary fall from grace for someone who, when he was born, was second in line to the throne and returned from the Falklands as a war hero.”
Princess Anne has grown weary of Prince Andrew’s scandal as the fallout from her long relationship with late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein continues. “Anne has been on the king’s side for a long time,” Christopher Andersen, royal expert and author of Brothers and Wives, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, Oct. 17. “She is so sick of (…)
King Charles III announced on Thursday, October 30 that he started the formal process strip brother Andrew of his title and evict the former Duke of York from his home in the Royal Lodge at Windsor.
“Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” a statement from Buckingham Palace read at the time. “His tenancy at Royal Lodge has, until now, provided him with legal protection to continue to reside.”
The statement notes that a “formal notice” was served on Andrew, who “will be moved to alternative private accommodation”. we he understands that he will be moving to Charles Sandringham’s estate.
“These censures are considered necessary, despite the fact that he continues to deny the accusations against him,” the statement added. “Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and deepest sympathies have been and will continue to be with the victims and survivors of any form of abuse.”
Charles’ decision comes after Andrew continued to make headlines for his connection to the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In 2019, the late Virginia Giuffre alleged that she had a sexual encounter with Andrew in 2001 when she was underage. Giuffre claimed that she and Andrew had crossed paths through Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been officially stripped of his ‘prince’ title as he continues to make headlines for his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Buckingham Palace announced in October 2025 that King Charles III had officially begun the “formal” process to remove his brother’s “style, titles and honours” amid the fallout from his sexual assault scandal. (…)
Andrew has continued to deny all of Giuffre’s allegations against him. She sued Andrew for sexual abuse in 2021 and they settled out of court the following year. Giuffre committed suicide at the age of 41 last April. His memoirs, nobody’s girlwas published posthumously last month and detailed further allegations against Andrew and Epstein.
Dampier’s recent comments are similar to those made by another royal author Christopher Andersen a we exclusively
Andersen said Andrew was the late queen’s “favourite” son, which was true “right to the end” of his life. “She did everything she could to protect him,” the author added.
“This must have been a painful decision for the king: this is his brother, after all,” Andersen shared last week. “Charles must know how much it would have hurt his mother, the late Queen, to take Andrew out of the royal family. I can’t imagine Elizabeth II would ever have gone that far, ever.”