“Woke Royals”

KATHY GYNGELL writes: In an extraordinarily considered speech, Gavin Ashenden, formerly chaplain to the late Queen Elizabeth and more recently a convert to Catholicism, has set out what King Charles could and indeed should have communicated in his Christmas Day message to his subjects.

Every time you think the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor story must have finished, there is another twist.

The latest batch of documents from the Epstein files includes emails that could further damage his reputation.

Or perhaps his reputation is already at rock bottom and this will only reinforce existing negative impressions.

Thanks to Andrew and Charles the Monarchy will fall especially as the family’s wealth is made transparent.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not be the subject of a criminal investigation in Britain over allegations he had sex in London with a teenager who was trafficked, and then put pressure on his police protection officer to dig up dirt on her.

The Metropolitan police on Saturday said after weeks of review, it would not launch any formal criminal investigation into King Charles’s brother. Mountbatten-Windsor’s ties to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein led to the stripping of his royal status.

The King has admitted he does not want to be accused by his grandchildren of failing to act to save the planet and leaving them a “ghastly legacy of horror”.

He told environmentalist Steve Backshall on a new ITV documentary that he found it “very frustrating” that scientists’ warnings about climate change still went unheeded, despite the world being at a “tipping point”.

The documentary, Steve Backshall’s Royal Arctic Challenge, looks back at then Prince Charles’s 1975 voyage to the Canadian Arctic, where he braved an under ice dive that organisers now admit was more dangerous than his team realised.

Charles the Eco-Nut King.

If you’ve ever dramatically broken up with an ex, only to find, to your miserable disbelief, that they keep popping up in the most inconvenient circumstances, you may feel a degree of sympathy with the royals as regards Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. A few weeks after he was stripped of his titles and ordered to leave Royal Lodge, he may now be the Andrew formerly known as Prince, but he shows no signs of wishing to leave his Windsor grace-and-favour home. By the terms of his (remarkably generous) lease, he is entitled to twelve months’ notice before departing. As one of his few remaining friends told the Times, ‘It’s really rather sad, but if it’s a case of who will blink first, then Andrew is going to dig in. He ain’t going anywhere.’

I wonder how long a white monarchy will last in a kingdom whose “subjects” hate white people?

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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has today been officially stripped of his last royal titles by his brother – making him a commoner.

The former Duke of York had his membership of the Order of the Garter formally cancelled by King Charles III at Midday on Monday.

It is the oldest British Order of Chivalry, founded by King Edward III in 1348. Andrew’s coat of arms has already been removed from St George’s Chapel, Windsor, where his parents, the Queen and Prince Philip, are buried.

Might Sarah Ferguson go “rogue” after accepting a “six-figure offer” for a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey? Palace sources have told The Sun that she’s contemplating doing one — adding that the royal family is “concerned”, but feel “there’s not much they can do to stop her”.

Blimey! I’m not surprised at the “concern”, are you? The idea of Ferguson — who was never anything if not a bit “rogue”, even at her best behaved, but now? In the present moment? Booted out of her home, stripped of her titles, her latest children’s book likely pulped, dropped by the charities with which she worked, reputation in the gutter, friends, running for the hills? Now, when she has really very little, if anything, left to lose? The idea of this incarnation of Fergie, spilling unknowable beans? That could cause the royal family real damage. More, potentially, than Prince Harry’s book Spare. More, even, than his and Meghan’s interview with Winfrey.

In 1760, the British monarchy was effectively bankrupt. Up to that year, when George III inherited the throne, the monarch had been responsible for meeting the increasing costs of a wide range of public services, including the army and the civil service.

So a deal was reached whereby responsibility for most of these matters was transferred to parliament and, to fund these services, the revenues from royal landholdings in what is now known as the Crown Estate were surrendered to parliament, so in effect to the public.

Henceforth, a civil list would provide an annual income to the monarch from the public purse to enable royal duties to be carried out. In 1760, this was set at the generous level of £800,000 a year.

Smiling, graciously waving and elegant in a blue striped shirt, white jeans and dark glasses – the Duchess of Sussex made her surprise return to acting with all the deliberately applied polish you might expect.

Photographed on the set of the film Close Personal Friends, which is shooting in Pasadena, California, she radiated confidence. A well-placed insider told her favoured People magazine: ‘She seemed very relaxed and happy. She was very sweet and down-to-earth.’

Parading about as fake Royals ain’t the lucrative gig they thought it might be.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been asked by Democrats in US Congress to answer questions as part of its investigation into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Members of the House Oversight Committee wrote to Andrew in a letter addressed to Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, which the former prince has agreed to leave.

The committee does not have the power to compel Andrew to appear in front of them, but said it intends to ask questions related to information on Epstein’s network and associates based on the pair’s “longstanding” friendship.

King Charles has officially stripped the former Duke of York, now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, of his HRH style and his prince title.

Charles formally made the changes, which were announced a week ago, by issuing a letters patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, which the Crown Office published in the Gazette, the UK’s official public record.

The entry, published on Wednesday, read: “The king has been pleased by letters patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of ‘Royal Highness’ and the titular dignity of ‘Prince’.”

Megyn Kelly has launched a brutal takedown of Meghan Markle for ‘dining out on royal titles’ in America.

The high-profile conservative commentator declared that ‘loathing’ of the Duchess of Sussex is one of the few things that unites Americans on the right and left.

Kelly was speaking to the Daily Mail as she launches ‘The Megyn Kelly Channel’ on SiriusXM, the latest expansion of her growing media empire.

Almost everyone likes deposed Royals tainted by a hint of scandal, these two are just pretentious bores.