“Woke Royals”

KING Charles III should be growing up (he’s 77 years old) and moving on from his lonely youth and long, frustrating princeship. Instead, he’s repackaging his juvenile environmentalism as a wide-ranging philosophy.

Environmentalism has merits. But the King’s environmentalism has always been uneducated, egotistical, defiant, unresponsive and somewhat cuckoo.

It is difficult to fathom now, but Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was once a hugely popular figure. A fun-loving playboy who flew helicopters in anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare missions in the Falklands, he was indulged by the public and adored by his mother.

His marriage to Sarah Ferguson was watched by millions and, for all his raucous antics, Randy Andy – as he was affectionately dubbed then – was seen to have more charm and charisma than his serious-minded siblings.

The King was heckled by members of the public about his brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, during an official visit to Essex on Thursday.

One man was heard to ask whether the King had urged the police to investigate Andrew. Charles did not appear to hear the question, which was shouted during a walkabout with the Queen.

Another person was heard to ask whether the royal family would help with the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the paedophile financier who was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

I don’t see an end to the Monarchy today.

When the King first tried to oust Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from his Windsor home, it began a two-year battle described by one source as “the siege of Royal Lodge”.

On Monday night, after a two-year stand-off between the brothers — not to mention a few carefully timed trebuchets thrown by palace courtiers — the duke finally left his £30 million, 31-room mansion.

Andrew, 65, was driven to Wood Farm on the Sandringham estate, where he will stay while his more permanent home, the nearby Marsh Farm, is prepared.

Disgraced Andrew evicted from Royal Lodge in midnight exile pic.twitter.com/hQhVQjtNh0

— The Sun (@TheSun) February 4, 2026

h/t Hermes

IF YOU are an Amazon Prime subscriber and are flicking through their meagre offerings on February 6, be sure to avoid Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision.

This documentary features our monarch wittering on about ‘harmony’ with nature.

The financial year ending 2025 was most harmonious for the Crown Estate. It made a profit of £1.1billion on offshore wind turbines licences and contracts, its biggest source of income. I imagine that His Majesty has rarely viewed the monstrosities that have desecrated our seascapes as they shred sea birds.

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.