Andrew should lose every privilege, but taking his Falklands medal is too much  ...Middle East

“Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.” This was the view of King George V, a serious-minded and steadfast monarch, who was on the throne for the entirety of the First World War. He believed, clearly, that military service should be recognised discretely, and that one’s conduct as a civilian was a completely different matter.

Given all that, I think we know where he would stand on the question of whether Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, should be stripped of the medals he received for his service for over 22 years in the Royal Navy. And although George V’s assertion was made more than a century ago, I think it still holds good today.  

Mr Mountbatten Windsor, as we shall now call him, piloted a helicopter in the Falklands conflict in 1982, taking part in multiple missions from his station on HMS Invincible, including Exocet missile decoy, search and rescue assignments and the evacuation of casualties from the theatre of war. He retired from the Navy in 2001, having received a campaign medal for his service in the Falklands. In 2015, he was given the honorary title of Vice-Admiral.

Now, no one is about to claim that Andrew is a latter-day Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (the recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in World War I and regarded as one of Britain’s greatest war heroes). Nevertheless, Andrew has seen more active service than most of us (and indeed all the senior members of the Royal Family), and went against the wishes of Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1982, who wanted him to take a desk job rather than put himself in danger in the Falklands.

I am sure he deserves everything he’s got for his association with Jeffrey Epstein, even though nothing has been proven about him in any tribunal other than in the court of public opinion. His dissembling under the arc lights of a TV interview only heightened public suspicion that he’s a wrong ‘un, and he has suffered defenestration, eviction and utter humiliation as a result of the catastrophic lack of judgement he betrayed in his amity with Epstein. He maintained friendly contact even after Epstein was jailed for child prostitution offences.  

There are calls for Andrew to appear before Parliament to be questioned on the financial arrangements around his former home in Windsor Great Park, and the Metropolitan Police is still considering whether to question him about claims he asked a personal security officer to investigate Virginia Giuffre. The late Giuffre had accused him of sexual assault (which he strongly denies). Andrew could not have any complaints if due process was followed in these cases, whatever the shaming outcome for him.  

But his military honours? I’m with George V, and it’s hard to avoid the feeling that, however reprehensible his actions in the Epstein case, a very unseemly and un-British scenario is unfolding, that of kicking a man when he’s down.

Last week’s recording of the satirical TV show Have I Got News For You was interrupted to bring the news that Andrew had been stripped of his title of Prince. The audience cheered and applauded as if they were at a football game. “He’s also losing his lease on Royal Lodge,” said the presenter, Jason Manford. Cue more cheering. This felt nothing more than an internet pile on made flesh, and for all that I find Andrew’s actions repugnant, I had an involuntary twinge of something akin to pity for him.

Likewise, the news that, following the decision to strip him of his honorary title of Vice-Admiral, confirmed by the Defence Secretary at the weekend, active discussion is taking place about whether he should give back his Falklands Campaign medal. Buckingham Palace has refused to rule out this possibility.

For a man who has not been convicted of any crime, it does seem a tad unfair that he might be asked to cede a medal he won, justly, in the service of Queen and Country. I don’t know how you judge the public mood in real time, other than by the comments left under articles in serious newspapers or on social media, but I would say that I’m not alone in this sentiment. No one is yet ready to spring to Andrew’s defence, but we have a keen understanding of the British sense of fair play.

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