In the end, the King gave Prince Andrew the dignity of portraying his humiliation as his own idea rather than something forced upon him.
There is no doubt, however, that the decision to stop Andrew using the title of Duke of York and his honours including his position as a Knight of the Garter came from Charles.
If he had not agreed to the request, it is likely that the King would have asked Parliament to pass legislation allowing him to strip his brother of the dukedom and his knighthood.
Their mother, the late Queen, also allowed Andrew to imply that his earlier decisions to step away from royal duties were his when really they were dictated to him.
The pressure for the Palace to act has been relentless after it was revealed in two Sunday newspapers last weekend that, despite claiming in a BBC Newsnight interview in 2019 that he had cut all ties with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, he had emailed him in 2011, telling him to keep in close touch “and we’ll play some more soon”.
Up until then, the Epstein scandal had been claim and counter-claim but here was concrete evidence that Andrew had been economical with the truth in his Newsnight interview.
Extracts from a posthumous forthcoming memoir by the sex trafficking victim Virginia Giuffre only compounded the problem.
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Her description of Andrew remarking that his two daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, were only a few years younger than her just before she was forced to sleep with him when she was only 17 made the King’s advisers even more determined to do something in an effort to stop the scandal continuing to damage the monarchy and distracting from its work.
Andrew’s ex-wife, Sarah, has been equally damned by her friendship with Epstein and she will no longer use the York title.
Will their humiliation stop the damage completely? Probably not. Andrew will remain a Prince, as the son of a monarch, and he has not relinquished his Dukedom, just agreed not to use it.
The King has no power to remove him from Royal Lodge, a 30-room mansion near Windsor that he has on a long lease from the independent Crown Estate.
Every time he is photographed driving up to Windsor Castle to see his family or go riding from the royal stables, the public will be reminded that the King has a disgraced brother.
Richard Palmer has been a royal correspondent for 20 years.
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