{"id":1114941,"date":"2026-07-27T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1114941\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:55:21","slug":"ex-prince-andrew-faces-another-blow-as-bill-is-drafted-to-strip-him-of-freedom-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1114941\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Prince Andrew Faces Another Blow as Bill Is Drafted to Strip Him of Freedom Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor<\/strong><\/a>, formerly known as Prince Andrew, may lose another one of his honors.<\/p>\n

The BBC<\/a> reported on Monday, July 27, that a bill is currently being drafted that, if approved, would strip the former Duke of York of his Freedom of the City of London honor.<\/p>\n

The City of London Corporation previously said via a spokesperson in March that the honor could not be revoked. However, according to the BBC, the Corporation is developing a process for removal.<\/p>\n

According to the City of London<\/a>, “From the Middle Ages to the Victorian era, the Freedom represented the right to trade, enabling members of a Guild or Livery Company to carry out their business in the Square Mile.”<\/p>\n

While most of the practical reasons for obtaining the honor are gone, “it remains a unique part of London’s history, to which many people who live or work in the City are proud to be admitted,” the City states on its website.<\/p>\n

The father of two<\/a> \u2014 who was arrested and released on his 66th birthday amid renewed scrutiny in his ties to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 received the Freedom of the City of London in 2012 “by virtue of patrimony” because his father, Prince Philip<\/strong><\/a>, was a Freeman, per the BBC.<\/p>\n

As for Andrew being stripped of the title<\/a>, a Corporation spokesperson said, “We understand why people want this matter resolved as quickly as possible, and we share that desire.”<\/p>\n

The draft bill is reportedly set to go before the Policy and Resources Committee in September and then the Court in October.<\/p>\n

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“The fastest and most appropriate approach is to put in place a lawful process that allows the City Corporation to make these decisions itself, rather than seeking legislation through Parliament,” a Corporation spokesperson said, per the BBC.<\/p>\n

“We are progressing that work and, if elected members approve the new process, they will then be able to consider whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s Freedom should be removed<\/a>,” the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

Though the disgraced royal has consistently denied wrongdoing and maintained his innocence regarding his connection to the late financier, he was accused of sharing confidential information with Epstein<\/a> related to his role as a trade envoy.<\/p>\n

The Thames Valley Police launched an inquiry into Andrew after it was reported that emails suggest the disgraced royal sent Epstein reports from a tour of Southeast Asia he took in 2010.<\/p>\n

Following Andrew’s arrest, his brother King Charles III<\/strong><\/a> said via a statement issued from Buckingham Palace that authorities have the royal family’s “full and wholehearted support and co-operation” throughout an investigation.<\/p>\n

This story Ex-Prince Andrew Faces Another Blow as Bill Is Drafted to Strip Him of Freedom Honor<\/a> first appeared on National Examiner<\/a>. Follow National Examiner<\/strong><\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/strong><\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, may lose another one of his honors. The BBC reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1114942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[173775,11512,76877,48437,2204,11572,5105,7710,519,448,112511],"class_list":["post-1114941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","tag-city-of-london","tag-city-of-london-corporation","tag-freedom","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-prince-philip","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals","tag-spokesperson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116994175864881683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}