A ROYAL expert has revealed why Charles will never strip Prince Andrew of his titles.
Speaking on The Sun’s Royal Exclusive program, Richard Palmer criticized the Duke of York as a “perpetual embarrassment” to the royal family.
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After settling a sexual abuse case with accuser Virginia Giuffre in 2022, the 64-year-old was stripped of his public positions and tax Paypayer-funded Metropolitan Police protection.
The duke, who has been removed from public duties due to his association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is said to have insisted on plans to further reduce his privileges, which include leaving the Royal Lodge in Windsor.
He stubbornly clung to his title of His Royal Highness, which he can use in private – and remains part of the Order of the Garter – the oldest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom.
Speaking to The Sun’s Matt Wilkinson, Palmer explained why he believes the King won’t take that title away from him.
He said: “I’m not sure about the legal process of this.
“I imagine it’s possible, but I think it would be very difficult for him to publicly embarrass his brother like that.
“I can’t imagine that happening, but it’s clear that Andrew’s situation is a perpetual embarrassment to the king and the entire family.”
The father of two faces new embarrassment after the launch of the new Netflix film To harvest.
Starring Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson, the film follows Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview with the BBC’s Emily Maitlis.
In November 2019, Andrew sat down with Maitlis to discuss her relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
During the notorious Newsnight interview, Andrew told Maitlis he couldn’t have had sex with 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre because on the day she claimed it happened he was at the Pizza Express in Woking for a children’s party with his daughter Beatrice.
He also insisted he could not have “sweated profusely” due to a medical condition he claims he developed while serving in the Falklands War as a Navy helicopter pilot.
Andrew also defended his relationship with Epstein, saying that meeting the financier had “some seriously beneficial results”, but added that the reason for meeting him in 2010 was to “put an end to the friendship”.
O film is based on Sam McAllister’s memoir Scoops: Behind The Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews.
‘There is no way back’
Prince Andrew’s reputation is irreparably damaged and he will never be able to engineer a return to public life, according to one of Britain’s leading public relations gurus.
Brand and culture expert Nick Ede, who runs PR agency East of Eden, called the embarrassed royal “deluded” for thinking he could ever return to royal duties and encouraged him to give it up and ‘enjoy his life’ in exile.
It follows the release of Scoop – a Netflix film based on the 2019 interview he gave to Newsnight.
Nick said: “There is no way back for him.
“I think you know this perpetual idea that he might still be back. Nobody cares. He has no fans.
“There is no one out there who says ‘We want to see Prince Andrew’, not a single person. I think he has to realize that. But I think it’s going to take a long, long time for him to really understand. He is very deluded.
“In my opinion, the best thing he could do is enjoy life. He has beautiful daughters. He has a great relationship with Fergie, he has a beautiful house.
“Just live a peaceful life.”
Reflecting on the interview from five years ago – the fallout of which led to Andrew stepping back from royal duties “for the foreseeable future” – Nick compared the fallout to Frost vs Nixon and said he would have encouraged him not to do it.
He said: “If I was advising him, I would say, stay still, stay still, just get on the ground. You know you’re a prince. Enjoy the life you lead, but don’t open that can of worms, because that’s what it is.
“There was no admission that a relationship with someone like Epstein was terribly toxic. There was no idea that there were many trafficking victims whose lives were completely ruined by Epstein. He didn’t seem to think that the association he had with that man was anything other than positive.
“I think his worst faux pas was obviously being in that interview and agreeing to it in the first place, not realizing that he was actually going to be interviewed by a very, very good journalist who was going to ask him questions that he might not have liked. .
“But I think what this did really showed how archaic Prince Andrew is in his views and thoughts.
“Read the room. He never read a room.”
It has been more than four years since Prince Andrew stepped down from royal duties.
But the unsealing of US court documents alleging Andrew took part in an underage orgy and appeared in sex videos – which he denies – has seen the controversy rise once again.
After the documents were released, Charles reportedly wanted to keep his distance from the disgraced duke – who said he “regrets” his friendship with Epstein.
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