Buckingham Palace has not given any further details in this regard, but it is striking that the statement that has been made public does not mention at any time that Andrés agrees with this course of action or that it was he himself who offered to renounce those honors and his patronage, as he did in 1990, when he retired from public life and disassociated himself from several charitable organizations by his own decision.
Several sources have assured the New York Post newspaper that the monarch organized a private audience with her son in the castle on Thursday from Windsor, where he traveled from his home at the Royal Lodge, to explain the decision he had made and inform him that he will no longer be known as His Royal Highness Prince Andrew. Like the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who officially abandoned the monarchy in 2020, he will not lose the title, but neither will may use it publicly.
In this way, the Duke of York follows the same path as his former sister-in-law, Diana of Wales, who had this treatment withdrawn after her divorce from the Prince Charles, or his own wife Sarah Ferguson, who became only the Duchess of York from the end of their marriage.
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