There have also been calls for him to relinquish his title of Duke of York. Most recently, the City of York’s culture commissioner announced in the “Guardian” that they wanted to strip Andrew of his honorary citizenship. The return as a public face in the inner circle of the royals is considered almost impossible. There is currently speculation as to whether Andrew will be allowed to attend the memorial service for his father Prince Philip at the end of March.
Andrew is also reportedly not playing a public role at his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s big platinum anniversary. The concern that his scandal might overshadow the 70th anniversary was great before.
Is Eugenie’s and Beatrice’s future sealed too?
But not only Prince Andrew disappears from the royal floor. The royal expert and biographer Duncan Larcombe assumes that Andrews daughters Eugenie and Beatrice may be distancing themselves from the royal family following her father’s out-of-court settlement.
“We’re in uncharted waters here because their lives are likely to feel very different,” Larcombe told the magazine OK!.
“Events where they were always expected to attend because they were joining their father – like the Easter service at Windsor Castle or Commonwealth Day at Westminster Abbey – we will see less because their father has been stripped of his royal duties,” he said nobility expert. “But that might suit you well, why do we assume you want anything to do with the royal family’s machinations?”
“They are both happily married and have children,” said the nobility expert, who assumes that the two princesses of York will mainly want to devote themselves to their private lives in the future. “I can’t imagine it increasing their enthusiasm to expose themselves as a family and expose themselves and their children to all the horrible things that can go wrong.”
In any case, the role of the Yorks is not easy due to the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew. “Being a king is great when the flags are flying at you, but when you’re being pelted with eggs it’s not a good position,” observed Larcombe.