Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will retain their royal
titles even as their father loses his.
Beatrice and Eugenie have been styled as HRH and Princess since
their births because of their great, great grandfather, King George
V.
The decision of their uncle, King Charles III, to remove all
titles from Andrew doesn’t alter how they are known.
George V’s 1917 Letters Patent stated that all the grandchildren
of a Monarch in the male line, that is the legitimate children of
their sons, can be known as HRH and Prince or Princess.
Beatrice and Eugenie are both grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth
II and so are both HRH and Princess. That remains unchanged.
They both still retain their positions in the line of succession
– as does their father who is now known as Andrew
Mountbatten-Windsor.
The 1917 Letters Patent state that all the children of a Monarch
can be HRH and Prince or Princess. King Charles is now sending
Royal Warrants to the Lord Chancellor to arrange for Andrew’s to be
permanently removed.
That is also the mechanism being used to take away the titles of
Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh that Andrew
was given when he got married in July 1986.
His former wife gave up her courtesy title and is now known as
Sarah Ferguson.
They will both leave Royal Lodge, the thirty room home they
share on the Windsor estate, imminently after the lease was
surrendered. It was revealed in recent weeks that Andrew
Mountbatten-Windsor doesn’t pay monetary rent on the property which
he moved into in 2003.
Andrew will go to a private residence on the Sandringham estate.
Sarah Ferguson’s arrangements are not known but are down to
her.
