{"id":633921,"date":"2025-12-15T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633921\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:43:14","slug":"royal-family-live-the-duchess-of-edinburgh-visits-alderney-royal-christmas-cards-revealed-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633921\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal family LIVE: The Duchess of Edinburgh visits Alderney, royal Christmas cards revealed and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ebHyp4DM9y\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/prince-andrew\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a>, formerly known as Prince Andrew, has officially been stripped of his last remaining military title. The 65-year-old has been demoted from Vice-Admiral to Commander in a decision made by the Defence Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"eaPgvj9yL13\">Despite losing the Vice-Admiral rank, Andrew will keep the medals he earned serving as a Navy helicopter pilot during the 1982 Falklands War.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eMz5gVveJv\">A Government spokesman commented: &#8220;Following formal consideration, Defence Council have agreed the immediate reversion from the rank of Vice-Admiral to the rank of Commander (Retired) Royal Navy, the rank held on retirement from Regular Royal Naval Service by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e-WCiobyufd\">&#8220;This decision aligns with such processes as to remove other styles and titles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"en4JiQvb94\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/862269\/prince-andrew-loses-titles-scandals\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\">Andrew gave up the use of his royal titles<\/a>, including the Duke of York, following his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and alleged relationship with a Chinese spy in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/57fd25e0a3bf-gettyimages-1312975830.jpg\"   width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew at Philip funeral\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\"image image\"\/>\u00a9 WPA Pool\/Getty ImagesAndrew gave up his royal titles in October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, has officially been stripped of his last remaining military title. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,13080,1102,4884,7796,712,21035,38151,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-633921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-british-royals","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-royalty","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-sophie","15":"tag-the-duchess-of-edinburgh","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115723647199072990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633921","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=633921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}