Speaking of Andrew, Nigel Cawthorne, author of Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, has said that he believes the royal was “reluctant” to lose his title.
He said: “It is only when new revelations cast a search beam on Prince Andrew‘s previous statements that the prince appears to make another act of contrition. It makes the act look both reluctant and too little too late.”
Discussing the future and what Andrew could do, he added: “Will doors no longer open before him at Buckingham Palace? Why did he not simply become a commoner and adopt the family name Windsor-Mountbatten.”
The name, ‘Mountbatten-Windsor’, combines the British Royal Family’s House name of Windsor and Prince Philip’s adopted surname of Mountbatten.
