Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor FAQs
Who is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally known as Prince Andrew?
Who is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formally known as Prince Andrew?
Answer: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Ex-Prince Andrew’s siblings are King Charles III, Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne.
Former Prince Andrew was a decorated member of the Royal Navy until Queen Elizabeth II removed his military affiliations. Mountbatten-Windsor served for over 20 years in the military.
Who are Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s children and spouse?
Who are Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s children and spouse?
Answer: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was formally married to Sarah Ferguson from 1986 until their divorce in 1996.
Ex-Prince Andrew has two daughters with Sarah Ferguson, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.
Why is Prince Andrew no longer a royal?
Why is Prince Andrew no longer a royal?
Answer: On Oct. 30, King Charles III stripped his disgraced brother, Prince Andrew, of his royal titles. He also evicted him from Royal Lodge after weeks of pressure to act over the former Duke of York’s friendship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Ongoing pressure had loomed over the palace to punish the 65-year-old over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed attention on sexual abuse allegations by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Her posthumous memoir was published in October 2025.
Giuffre accused Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of sexually abusing her on three separate occasions in 2001 when she was a teenager after Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her.