Anne Just Showed Andrew What It Means to Be a Royal After Report His Title Could Be Stripped Following Claims He Was With 40 Women in 1 Night
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The new bombshell revelations about Prince Andrew have made people question his relationship with his family. This is, of course, true of his relationship with his older brother, King Charles and his nephews, Prince William and Prince Harry, but also true of his relationship with his other siblings. That includes Princess Anne, who is so often put forth as an example of what royals are supposed to be.
Anne, the Princess Royal, carried out her engagements as usual while her brother was in the middle of a new scandal, caused by the new biography about him and Sarah Ferguson titled Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie. And while visiting Irish president Michael D Higgins, she was invited to sign the visitors’ book at his official residence. “Am I wasting an entire page of paper?” she asked. And the response was telling. “You deserve the whole page,” Higgins said.
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It’s a very far cry from the general vibes about Prince Andrew, particularly these days, as new revelations from the book about the Duke of York‘s behavior hit newspapers every day. One particular troubling one was the claim that more than 40 women were once brought to Andrew’s hotel during a stay in Bangkok in 2006. The Duke of York traveled to Thailand to represent the crown at the King of Thailand’s diamond jubilee. “Hotel staff were used to foreigners bringing in girls, but amazed that more than 10 a day were going to Andrew’s room,” Lownie wrote. “Often, as soon as one left, another would arrive,” a witness told the biographer.
A source recently told The Telegraph that William knows “something still needs to be done” with Andrew, and he has plans for what will happen to his uncle once he becomes king. Those plans reportedly include banning him from his coronation, removing his Order of the Garter, and stripping him of his “Prince” title.
Royal biographer Christopher Wilson told the publication, “I think to a large extent Charles has adhered to that as a safe policy—the moment you start tearing the family apart, where does it stop? With William it will be a different approach—he has hard-nosed ideas about how the Royal family needs to appear in the frenzied social media world we now inhabit, and I think will be ruthless.”
As with the conversation of taking Prince Harry’s titles away, there are complications as the process is anything but simple. “If there was a serious move to take [a title] away, particularly at that level, you do it through both houses [of Parliament],” an insider said. Another source added, “Is it likely at this point? No. But is it possible? Yes.”
Princess Anne, meanwhile, has remained a role model for her brother and everyone around her throughout all the scandals. In fact, she carried out 474 official engagements in 2024, (100 more than King Charles, who was slowed down by his cancer diagnosis, and almost 200 more than her brother Edward). And she did all of this despite being hospitalized in June due to a concussion.
She was praised for her role as King Charles’s official bodyguard at his coronation, leading 6,000 members of the military on horseback. And she was similarly lauded for her response to the death of the Queen, her mother. “I was fortunate to share the last 24 hours of my dearest Mother’s life. It has been an honour and a privilege to accompany her on her final journey,” she said at the time.
For the sake of Queen Elizabeth, King Charles, and Prince Anne will likely refrain from saying anything in public against their brother, Prince Andrew. But actions speak clearly. They’re carrying the torch forward, in a real way, while Andrew is and must remain confined to the shadows.
