The most seismic family decision taken by the Crown in a generation was not merely the work of King Charles III, but the result of a quiet, protective pressure campaign waged by the new generation. The Duchess of Cambridge, now the Princess of Wales, has always been fiercely protective of her family and the reputation of the institution she is set to lead. When it came to her husband's uncle, Prince Andrew, it was this protective impulse, sources suggest, that provided the final, necessary shove to remove him from royal life entirely.
Andrew, now formally known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, has been a decades-long source of controversy. However, it was the catastrophic fallout from his association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the subsequent civil case, that made his permanent removal an inevitability.
