If the Royal Family is “The Firm”, the ousting of Prince Andrew from its core business marks a significant moment. The Prince has fallen from a life of privilege and international inter-connections with some of the world’s wealthiest people to relinquishing the official status which has always meant so much to him.
From now on, there is no more drumroll of titles nor inclusion in any royal events. That is a bitter and final fall from grace. Prince Andrew has moved from a perch as spoilt and favoured son of the late Queen, to a figure deemed such a liability to the monarchy that he has been forced into the kind of internal exile last seen when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936.
His statement makes crystal clear that this decision was forced out of him. The tone has his blend of self-defence and petulance: “I have decided, as I always have, to put duty to my country and family first.”
Well, not so fast. For one thing, the “discussions” with King Charles and the family the statement archly refers to were not voluntary. Andrew also continues to protest that he is innocent of having a sexual encounter with the late Virginia Giuffre and deny that he is the person in the picture taken with his arm around her waist as a very young woman. The unwinding of that story, plus more relations in the Epstein files published in the last weeks, have ended his royal career unceremoniously.
The impact on the Windsors is serious. A brother next in birth order to King Charles had become such a problem that he was forced into “talks” about dropping his titles and the entitlements and suggested deference that brings. In reality, this was the equivalent of being summoned by the boss to see HR at short notice.
Andrew agreed to a move he had no control over – in essence he has been fired on the orders of the King. The reputational damage he was inflicting on the Crown was so heavy that there were real fears in the Royal household that a black sheep brother could precipitate the decline and fall of faith in the monarchy.
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As such, a situation deemed disagreeable but manageable by “The Firm” morphed swiftly after the latest revelations of the extraordinary degree of folly Andrew exhibited in continuing to associate closely with the late Jeffery Epstein, even when the abuser and trafficker of young women had first been convicted of soliciting underage girls.
The “we are in this together” message, now revealed to have been sent by Andrew to Epstein after the image of Andrew and Giuffre was published, suggested panic or complicity. So too his agreement to a large financial settlement to her, while protesting that he has no recollection of meeting her.
Giuffre’s mental health decline and eventual suicide earlier this year made clear that this story of alleged abuse, denial and cover up would never really end. This disassociation is the Palace’s way of insulating itself from the consequences and leaving Andrew alone with his conscience.
The question now will be whether this should have happened much earlier. Hanging around in a Royal half-life, arguing about where he should be housed and which events he was invited to was a messy halfway house. It opened “The Firm” to vulnerability if further damaging details emerged – as they now have.
The late Queen does bear responsibility here too – her fondness for Andrew also protected him from condign punishment, something King Charles has now remedied with a belated ruthlessness. Because in the end, the core function of the Royal Ramily is to persist into the following generations, and protecting the monarch and the institution is its central function.
Over time, Andrew came to believe this story was about his reputation and wellbeing, but it was not. And a forced royal resignation reminds us that it is the King who calls the shots – even when it comes to his own sibling.
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