The decision by King Charles III to strip his younger brother Prince Andrew of all royal titles and honours marks one of the most dramatic disciplinary moves in modern royal history. Once known as His Royal Highness The Duke of York, Andrew will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a private citizen with no formal royal privileges. But what exactly did he lose, and how much power does the monarch really have to take it all away? Before his fall from grace, Andrew held an array of prestigious royal titles bestowed over a lifetime of service and birthright. At his birth in 1960, he was styled “His Royal Highness Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward of York.” As the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, he automatically held the title of Prince and the style

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