Prince Andrew faces being frozen out of the Royal Family altogether with his main role reduced to looking after the Queen's corgis, a royal expert believes.
King Charles III sees no future in The Firm for his brother, it has been claimed, despite the new monarch handing his shamed younger brother the green light to don his Navy garb in the run up to the Queen's state funeral.
The Duke of York, 62, is no longer a working royal and therefore was forced to wear civilian clothes as he followed his late mother's procession to Westminster Hall last Wednesday.
The late sovereign's middle son has been pushed into the shadows in light of scandals involving his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the alleged sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre - allegations the Duke denies.
He refused to say he regretted his relationship with the billionaire paedophile during a car crash Newsnight interview in 2019 and earlier this year paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case to Ms Giuffre, who he claimed previously never to have met.
Now, Andrew could be reduced to nothing more than the royal dog walker-in-chief under Charles' rule, it has been alleged.
Royal expert Nigel Cawthorne understands that the Prince could end up receiving just a token allowance from the new King.
But he can forget about being a public-facing member of the Royal Family any time soon.
The Duke, often dubbed the Queen's favourite son, faces a very little meaningful future in the monarchy, the author stressed.
"I can't see he's got much of a role [in the Royals] aside from Lord High Dogwalker, keeper of the royal corgis," he told The Sun Online.
"Who would want him? What supermarket or school wants Andrew cutting the ribbon?
"Andrew could end up embarrassing them even more - so instead [Charles] would have to give him some 'hush money'."
It comes after claims in a few book that Andrew "lobbied hard" to stop Charles from becoming King.
The writer went on to explain the brothers have a deeply rooted "rivalry" which dates all the way back to when they were young.
It, according to expert Cawthorne, came to a head during the 1990s when Andrew tried to set himself up as William's Regent.
"Since then, Andrew has consistently embarrassed The Firm," Cawthorne went on.
It is understood that Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice gave the Queen the two corgis that outlived the monarch and promised to take care of them if she died.
Andrew and his family presented the Queen with two puppies during lockdown to help keep her entertained at Windsor while her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was in hospital.
Earlier this year, the Queen stripped her son Andrew of all of his honorary military roles, including Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, and he gave up his HRH title.
Last week, it was claimed Andrew "lobbied hard" with the hope that it would mean Charles would not become king when his mother died - and that William would wear the crown instead.
Andrew's behaviour was alleged to have been "very, very negative and extremely unpleasant" to the Queen, who disagreed with him about the line of succession.
And this reportedly marked a rare occasion where Andrew didn't get what he wanted from his mother.
