Charlie Proctor

The Duke of York has had an official engagement cancelled by palace aides amidst the furore of his Newsnight interview over the weekend. According to the Daily Mail, Prince Andrew has been “banished from royal duties and sent to sit behind a desk at his mother’s house.” On Tuesday, the Duke of York was scheduled to have visited flood-hit communities in the north of England. However…

The Duke of York has lost a major sponsor for his Pitch@Palace project – a major blow for the embattled Prince. Accountancy firm KPMG were one of the first companies to sponsor the Duke’s Pitch@Palace event since the project began five years ago. The decision to cancel their sponsorship is as a result of the negative publicity surrounding Prince Andrew since the death of Jeffrey…

The Duke of York has been embroiled in further controversy after a former Downing Street aide alleged that he used a racially insensitive term of phrase. The allegation published by the London Evening Standard is denied by Buckingham Palace, with sources telling the paper the Duke would never use such language. One of David Cameron’s key aides during his premiership, Rohan Silva, claims…

There is intense pressure on the Duke of York to heavily reduce his diary following his recent interview on BBC Newsnight which was widely seen as calamitous. In a poll of Royal Central readers, a significant majority of respondents said that the Duke of York should step back from royal duties following the broadcast on Saturday evening. Of the 533 people polled, 83% said Prince Andrew…