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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Caroline Davies

‘The admin’: why it’s not easy to rename streets called after Prince Andrew

Street sign of Prince Andrew Way with 'Prince' painted over
Mid and East Antrim council has voted to rename Prince Andrew Way in Carrickfergus. Photograph: Jonathan McCambridge/PA

Streets named after Andrew, formerly known as Prince but now plain Mountbatten-Windsor, can be found from Broadstairs to Belfast to Birmingham. Roads, avenues, terraces, lanes, crescents, closes, drives and ways are all afflicted – to the dismay of some residents.

In Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, Prince Andrew Way, celebrating Mountbatten-Windsor’s 1986 marriage to Sarah Ferguson, will be purged after Mid and East Antrim council passed a motion, described by one councillor as “sad but necessary”, to rename. A public consultation is under way.

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