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Andrew’s ‘astonishing’ Princess Beatrice request – shut down by Queen Elizabeth

Royal creator Andrew Lownie revealed the stunning request from the ex-prince to the late monarch.

Ex-Prince Andrew made a stunning demand to the late Queen Elizabeth II (Picture: Getty)

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reportedly made a stunning demand to his mom, Queen Elizabeth II, however the late monarch flatly refused. Royal creator Andrew Lownie mentioned the disgraced ex-prince, 66, is claimed to have tried to persuade the previous queen to amend the royal guidelines governing hereditary titles in efforts to guard the standing of his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.

The claims seem in Lownie’s 2025 biography Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Home of York, which incorporates new materials following the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata and King Charles III’s choice to strip Andrew of his remaining royal titles earlier this yr.

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He mentioned: “Andrew has all the time been very protecting of his daughters and their standing, urgent for them to be working royals and to obtain police safety even when there was no perceived menace to their lives. He even tried to change Letters Patent in order that Beatrice might inherit his title, however the Queen refused.”

Below longstanding royal conference, dukedoms are usually inherited by way of the male line, that means Beatrice wouldn’t ordinarily be eligible to inherit the Duke of York title.

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have thus far retained their royal titles, regardless of the scandal engulfing their father on account of his shut ties to the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

However in line with Lownie, that place could now be shifting within the wake of the Epstein recordsdata fallout.

Beatrice, Eugenie and Ferguson are additionally repeatedly talked about all through the launched Epstein-related paperwork and emails. Nevertheless, being named within the recordsdata is just not, in itself, a sign of wrongdoing.

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