Prince Andrew and Prince Harry face a brand new double humiliation as royal officers are mulling methods to take away one other of their vital roles, whereas additionally denying them Jubilee medals like different veterans.
Buckingham Palace officers are actually contemplating the right way to take away the function of Counsellors of State from the Duke of York and the Duke of Sussex – a probably vital place that the pair nonetheless possess. By regulation, the Counsellors of State are the monarch’s partner and the subsequent 4 folks within the line of succession who’re over the age of 21. If Andrew and Harry had been eliminated they might be changed by Princess Anne and Camilla. Pictured: Prince Andrew and Prince Harry at Prince Philip’s funeral at Windsor Fort on April 17 final yr.
The duo, who’re ninth and sixth in line to the throne respectively, have already been stripped of their royal patronages and army titles by the Queen – and each requested to not use the deal with His Royal Highness. Prince Harry is pictured sporting his medals whereas smiling with the Duke of York on the Buckingham Palace balcony in 2014.
Palace sources confirmed they’re nonetheless two of the 4 Counsellors of State, who can be known as upon to take the place of the Queen if she had been unable to hold out her duties due to sickness or absence overseas. They’d be licensed to hold out many of the official duties of the monarch, together with signing essential paperwork, attending Privy Council conferences and receiving the credentials of recent ambassadors to the UK. The opposite two Counsellors of State are Prince Charles, who’s inheritor to the throne, and William, who’s second in line. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip journey in a carriage reverse Prince Andrew and Prince Harry at Royal Ascot in June 2016.
Princes Andrew and Harry additionally won’t be eligible for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal, in line with the Each day Telegraph. The commemorative medal shall be awarded on February 6 to mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne and given to serving members of the Armed Forces, police, fireplace, emergency and jail companies. Now that Harry and Andrew have misplaced their army titles, this implies the duo shall be handled like all different veterans and never obtain the particular medal.
Prince Charles has invited Prince Harry and his household to stick with him within the UK within the hope of assembly Lilibet for the primary time, it has emerged. Pictured: the primary photograph of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s daughter Lilibet was launched in a Christmas card final month.
The Prince of Wales is but to see his granddaughter face-to-face, after she was born in California in June final yr. In current months, the household have communicated through a collection of ‘good natured’ calls, sources informed the Mirror. Charles is pictured (middle), throughout his go to to Haddo Nation Park, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland final week.
Elsewhere, Prince Andrew’s ex girlfriend Woman Victoria Hervey has insisted ‘very personal’ Ghislaine Maxwell was a ‘sufferer’ of Jeffrey Epstein. The socialite, 44, the daughter of the sixth Marquess of Bristol and the previous love curiosity of the Duke of York, first met the pair 20 years in the past however has beforehand stated she has no clue what that they had been secretly as much as.
Woman Victoria informed UK morning breakfast presenter Lorraine: ‘She is a scapegoat proper now, so sadly for her, she is being taken down for what he has performed as effectively. Some would possibly argue just isn’t fairly as truthful because it might be’ (pictured collectively in 2004).
Woman Victoria confessed she felt ‘used’ by Ghislaine and Epstein, however added she ‘had enjoyable on the time’. She stated: ‘That is within the early 2000s when nobody had any thought of what folks came upon in a while however the early 2000s, folks wished Ghislaine and Jeffrey in any respect their occasions. They had been invited there in every single place’ (pictured in 2002 with Prince Andrew).
Ghislaine Maxwell may spend the remainder of her life behind bars after a jury convicted her of recruiting and grooming younger ladies to be abused by the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein final month.
Maxwell was discovered responsible on 5 of six counts – a spectacular downfall for the previous London society lady who later moved into the very best circles of New York’s social scene. Pictured: Maxwell with Epstein.
Maxwell, who is claimed to have been Epstein’s madam in addition to his one-time girlfriend, is seen posing with the Epstein in proof images proven in court docket.
Prince Andrew is seen along with his arm round Virginia Roberts whereas Ghislaine Maxwell stands within the background, in a now notorious photograph from early 2001.
Pictured: Harry and Meghan at Westminster Abbey in March 2020 earlier than stepping down as senior royals.
Prince Andrew subsequent to Harry and Meghan on the Buckingham Palace balcony in June 2019. Additionally pictured (entrance) are the Queen (left), James, Viscount Severn and Isla Philips (each proper).
