Royal Family News: What Is Prince Andrew’s Fate Following The Death of Queen Elizabeth?

British royal family news shows that today Queen Elizabeth, the UK’s longest reigning monarch, died at age 96 at her Balmoral estate. Her family rushed to be by her side before she passed, which was described as “peaceful.”

Now comes questions as to the course of her allegedly “favorite son” disgraced Prince Andrew. Andrew was forced to step away from his role as a senior working royal following a tawdry scandal involving reported sex trafficking of underage girls.

It is claimed that Andrew will never return to public royal life, despite his professed wish to do so. One royal expert thinks Andrew will remain in the shadows of shame, “because of the criticism Princes Charles and William would face if they allowed it.”

Royal Family News: Will Andrew Return?

The late Queen Elizabeth stripped Andrew of his honorary military roles in January and he also gave up his HRH style. In February he paid a reported multi-million dollar out of court settlement to Virginia Giuffre who claimed she was sex trafficked to Andrew by his friend dead, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

“The Duke of York had brought shame to his mother and other relatives in recent years with his reputation left in tatters amid the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal. But he remained close to his mother throughout his life, having formed an ‘unbreakable bond’ with her in childhood in the years after his birth at Buckingham Palace in 1960.”

Will Andrew Become a Senior Royal Again?

On March 29, 2022 Andrew made a rare public appearance when he escorted his mother into Westminster Abbey for a memorial service for his father Prince Philip.

But in June, when the queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations took place, Andrew was nowhere to be seen. He was expected to attend a Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, but at the last minute he declined after testing positive for coronavirus.

Royal Family News: What Will Andrew Do Next?

Insiders believed that, “Part of the reason that the Queen and Andrew were so close was because she had been on the throne for seven years by the time of his birth in 1960, and was therefore able to spend more time with him and his brother Edward than her other children, Charles and Anne … Andrew was seen by the Queen as ‘the spare she had for herself once she had produced the heir’ and that he would raise spirits by making her laugh.”

The queen passed away today at Balmoral castle. Queen Elizabeth is survived by four children, eight grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren.

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