What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it seems, especially if you’re a banished royal. After Prince Andrew was stripped of his title following growing controversy over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and relegated to Andrew Mountbatten Windsor last week, there was something notably missing that caused a considerable hullabaloo: a hyphen.
Andrew was assumed to be joining the likes of aristocrats, including the Spencer-Churchills, Bowes-Lyons, and Petty-Fitzmaurices of the world, to tether his two family names together as one. But when Buckingham Palace announced his new title, there was nothing but blank space between the storied surnames.
