THE Duke of York’s brusque removing from his public-facing function as a member of the Royal Household is a victory for Prince Charles.
The Prince of Wales, 73, was adamant that his brother’s place ought to be “wiped” when it turned clear that Andrew, 61, might face a vastly embarrassing civil trial for alleged sexual assault.
A senior courtier says that whereas the choice to relieve Andrew of his HRH (His Royal Highness) standing was introduced within the Queen’s title, it was Charles who has been chargeable for the Royal Household’s “immediate and agile response”.
It got here after the newest blow for Andrew, when a New York decide dominated this week that there ought to be a public trial to find out Virginia Giuffre’s claims she was assaulted by the prince.
“It's Prince Charles who has led what's successfully a royal disaster administration staff fashioned to restrict the reputational harm attributable to Andrew’s disastrous affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein,” says the courtier.
“Whereas the Queen has given her views on the matter she is of course protecting and delicate to Andrew, who's acknowledged to be her favorite son.
"Whereas Charles has taken a constantly more durable line with Andrew and isn't precisely sympathetic to the place of his brother, who he considers to be as much as his neck in a dreadful mess of his personal making.”
Prince Andrew has constantly denied the allegations made in opposition to him.
It has lengthy been acknowledged in royal circles that Charles, who has championed a slimmed-down monarchy when he inherits the throne, has little time for Andrew.
He didn't assist the strategy the Duke made to the Queen a number of years in the past to approve monetary assist for his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, as full-time - and police-protected - royals.
The insider provides: “When it got here clear this week that Andrew’s authorized place was going from dangerous to worse, and future developments and protection of the saga can be in peril of eclipsing the large occasion of the 12 months - the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee - Charles moved decisively.
"He successfully made the choice that to restrict additional reputational harm, Andrew needed to be eliminated - successfully expelled as a working member of the household.
"It means he'll defend his authorized place not as a royal however as a non-public citizen.
“It could appear a brutal therapy to dish out to a youthful sibling, however when the historical past of this sorry saga is written, we predict Charles will probably be seen to have moved with the firmness and rapidity of a CEO defending a significant enterprise in disaster.
“That his mom’s unbelievable 70 years of service to the nation could possibly be overshadowed by a trial which might contain lurid particulars of Andrew’s intercourse life will not be a prospect that Charles intends to let occur."
The Royal Household’s shock motion has additionally eliminated the specter of others taking issues into their very own palms - similar to officers within the Grenadier Guards, of which Andrew was nonetheless Colonel, have been threatening to do by banning him from attending any of the regiment’s capabilities.
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