Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will retain their royal titles even as their father loses his.
Beatrice and Eugenie have been styled as HRH and Princess since their births because of their great, great grandfather, King George V.
The decision of their uncle, King Charles III, to remove all titles from Andrew doesn’t alter how they are known.
George V’s 1917 Letters Patent stated that all the grandchildren of a Monarch in the male line, that is the legitimate children of their sons, can be known as HRH and Prince or Princess.
Beatrice and Eugenie are both grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II and so are both HRH and Princess. That remains unchanged.
They both still retain their positions in the line of succession – as does their father who is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
The 1917 Letters Patent state that all the children of a Monarch can be HRH and Prince or Princess. King Charles is now sending Royal Warrants to the Lord Chancellor to arrange for Andrew’s to be permanently removed.
That is also the mechanism being used to take away the titles of Duke of York, Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh that Andrew was given when he got married in July 1986.
His former wife gave up her courtesy title and is now known as Sarah Ferguson.
They will both leave Royal Lodge, the thirty room home they share on the Windsor estate, imminently after the lease was surrendered. It was revealed in recent weeks that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor doesn’t pay monetary rent on the property which he moved into in 2003.
Andrew will go to a private residence on the Sandringham estate. Sarah Ferguson’s arrangements are not known but are down to her.
