Prince Andrew Duke of York is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a younger brother of King Charles III.
92 Facts About Prince Andrew, Duke of York
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Prince Andrew Duke of York served in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot and instructor and as the captain of a warship.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York served as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for 10 years until July 2011.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was baptised in the palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was sent to Heatherdown School near Ascot in Berkshire.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was nicknamed "the Sniggerer" by his schoolmates at Gordonstoun, because of "his penchant for off-colour jokes, at which he laughed inordinately".
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The Royal Household announced in November 1978 that Prince Andrew Duke of York would join the Royal Navy the following year.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1981 and appointed to the Trained Strength on 22 October.
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Andrew's place on board and the possibility of the Queen's son being killed in action made the British government apprehensive, and the cabinet desired that Prince Andrew be moved to a desk job for the duration of the conflict.
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Prince Andrew remained on board Invincible to serve as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot, flying on missions that included anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare, Exocet missile decoy, casualty evacuation, transport, and search and air rescue.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York witnessed the Argentinian attack on the SS Atlantic Conveyor.
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In late 1983, Prince Andrew Duke of York transferred to RNAS Portland, and was trained to fly the Lynx helicopter.
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Prince Andrew served aboard HMS Brazen as a flight pilot until 1986, including deployment to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Standing NRF Maritime Group 2.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York undertook the Lieutenants' Greenwich Staff course.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York served on HMS Edinburgh as an officer of the watch and Assistant Navigating Officer until 1989, including a six-month deployment to the Far East as part of exercise Outback 88.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York acted as Force Aviation Officer to Standing NRF Maritime Group 1 while Campbeltown was flagship of the NATO force in the North Atlantic from 1990 to 1991.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York passed the squadron command examination on 16 July 1991, attended the Staff College, Camberley the following year, and completed the Army Staff course.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on 1 February and passed the ship command examination on 12 March 1992.
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From 1993 to 1994, Prince Andrew commanded the Hunt-class minehunter HMS Cottesmore.
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From 1995 to 1996, Prince Andrew Duke of York was posted as Senior Pilot of 815 Naval Air Squadron, then the largest flying unit in the Fleet Air Arm.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was promoted to Commander on 27 April 1999, finishing his active naval career at the Ministry of Defence in 2001, as an officer of the Diplomatic Directorate of the Naval Staff.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York ceased using his honorary military titles in January 2022.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York is a keen golfer and has had a low single-figure handicap.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the senior maritime City livery company.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York met the American photographer and actress Koo Stark in February 1981, before his active service in the Falklands War.
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When Prince Andrew Duke of York was facing accusations in 2015 over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Stark came to his defence.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey on 23 July 1986.
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Prince Andrew had known Ferguson since childhood; they had met occasionally at polo matches, and became reacquainted with each other at Royal Ascot in 1985.
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However, Andrew's frequent travel due to his military career, as well as relentless, often critical, media attention focused on the Duchess of York, led to fractures in the marriage.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was filmed receiving, in cash, $40,000 as a down payment.
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The paper said that Prince Andrew Duke of York did not know of the arrangement.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York did continue to defend Andrew's controversial former friendship with Epstein.
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In March 2023, it was reported that Andrew had been offered Frogmore Cottage after his nephew Prince Harry was requested to vacate the residence.
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On 2 June 2022, Prince Andrew Duke of York tested positive for COVID-19, and it was announced that he would not be present at the Platinum Jubilee National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral on 3 June.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York maintained that Andrew "spent weeks with us" and received "daily massages".
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In November 2021 Lawrence Visoski, Epstein's pilot, testified in court during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial that Prince Andrew flew in Epstein's private plane along with other prominent individuals, including Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and John Glenn.
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Similarly, Prince Andrew Duke of York's name was recorded on 12 May 2001 by Epstein's pilot David Rodgers in his logbook, and he testified that Prince Andrew Duke of York flew three times with Epstein and Giuffre in 2001.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York alleged the meeting had taken place in London.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York didn't seem upset about it.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York thought it was pretty cool.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York is paying such a price for the association.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York repeated these claims in a 2019 BBC interview.
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The Prince Andrew Duke of York said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, saying "the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful".
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Prince Andrew Duke of York said that he does not drink, despite Giuffre's account of him providing alcohol for them both.
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The Prince Andrew Duke of York said that he met Epstein for the sole purpose of breaking off any future relationship with him.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York said that he would be willing to testify under oath regarding his associations with Epstein.
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On 29 October 2021, Prince Andrew Duke of York's lawyers filed a response, stating that their client "unequivocally denies Giuffre's false allegations".
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On 20 November 2019, a statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew Duke of York was suspending his public duties "for the foreseeable future".
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The decision, made with the consent of the Queen, was accompanied by the insistence that Prince Andrew Duke of York sympathised with Epstein's victims.
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On 28 January 2020, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman stated that Prince Andrew had provided "zero co-operation" with federal prosecutors and the FBI regarding the ongoing investigations, despite his initial promise in the Newsnight interview when he said he was willing to help the authorities.
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Sources close to Prince Andrew Duke of York said that he "hasn't been approached" by US authorities and investigators, and his legal team announced that he had offered to be a witness "on at least three occasions" but had been refused by the Department of Justice.
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Spencer Kuvin, who represented nine of Epstein's victims, said Prince Andrew Duke of York could be arrested if he ever returns to the United States.
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In March 2020, Prince Andrew Duke of York hired crisis-management expert Mark Gallagher, who had helped high-profile clients falsely accused by Operation Midland.
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In June 2020, it became known that Prince Andrew Duke of York is a person of interest in a criminal investigation in the United States, and that the United States had filed a mutual legal assistance request to British authorities in order to question Prince Andrew Duke of York.
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In 2020, prosecutors seeking access to Prince Andrew Duke of York made a formal mutual legal assistance request to the British government.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York stopped using the style His Royal Highness though it was not formally removed.
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Rachael Maskell York Central MP said Andrew was the "first to ever have their freedom removed".
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In March 2022, Andrew made his first official appearance in months, helping the Queen to walk into Westminster Abbey for a memorial service for his father, the Duke of Edinburgh.
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In June 2022, Prince Andrew Duke of York took part in private aspects of the Garter Day ceremony, including lunch and investiture of new members, but was excluded from the public procession following an intervention by his brother Charles and his nephew William that banned him from appearing anywhere the public could see him.
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In November 2022, it was reported that Prince Andrew Duke of York was set to lose his police protection as he was no longer expected to carry out public duties in accordance with the King's wishes.
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In December 2022, The Telegraph reported that Prince Andrew Duke of York had written to the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to complain about the situation.
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Prince Andrew has not carried out royal duties since November 2019, and having dropped from the public gaze following the newsnight interview, he is no longer receiving any taxpayer funding.
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The Prince Andrew Duke of York was patron of the Middle East Association, the UK's premier organisation for promoting trade and good relations with the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Iran.
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The Prince Andrew Duke of York was patron of Fight for Sight, a charity dedicated to research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease, and was a member of the Scout Association.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York toured Canada frequently to undertake duties related to his Canadian military role.
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Rick Peters, the former Commanding Officer of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada stated that Prince Andrew was "very well informed on Canadian military methods".
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Prince Andrew Duke of York became the patron of the charity Attend in 2003, and was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Royal United Services Institute.
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On 3 September 2012, Prince Andrew Duke of York was among a team of 40 people who abseiled down The Shard to raise money for educational charities the Outward Bound Trust and the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund.
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In 2014, Prince Andrew Duke of York visited Geneva, Switzerland, to promote British science at CERN's 60th anniversary celebrations.
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In 2013, it was announced that Prince Andrew Duke of York was becoming the patron of London Metropolitan University and the University of Huddersfield.
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On 19 November 2019, the Students' Union of the University of Huddersfield passed a motion to lobby Prince Andrew Duke of York to resign as its chancellor, as London Metropolitan University was considering Prince Andrew Duke of York's role as its patron.
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In March 2019, Andrew took over the patronage of the Outward Bound Trust from his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, serving up until his own resignation in November 2019.
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Prince Andrew had held the position of chairman of the board of trustees of the organisation since 1999.
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In May 2019, it was announced that Prince Andrew Duke of York had succeeded Lord Carrington as patron of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust.
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In January 2023, it was reported that King Charles III had agreed to let Prince Andrew Duke of York pursue some business interests.
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In 2014, Prince Andrew Duke of York founded the Pitch@Palace initiative to support entrepreneurs with the amplification and acceleration of their business ideas.
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Entrepreneurs selected for Pitch@Palace Bootcamp are officially invited by Prince Andrew Duke of York to attend St James Palace in order to pitch their ideas and to be connected with potential investors, mentors and business contacts.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York founded a number of awards including Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, a programme to develop the digital and enterprise skills, the Duke of York Award for Technical Education, given to talented young people in technical education, and the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award, which recognised talents of young people in entrepreneurship.
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In November 2020, and following reviews of emails, internal documents, and unreported regulatory filings as well as interviews with 10 former bank insiders, Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Prince Andrew Duke of York using his royal cachet and role as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for helping David Rowland and his private bank, Banque Havilland, with securing deals with clients around the world.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York has fallen for 'friendships' with bad, corrupt and clever men, not only in the US but in Libya, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, wherever.
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We are concerned that Prince Andrew is used to sell arms, and where you sell arms it is likely to be to despotic regimes.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York is the cheerleader in chief for the arms industry, shaking hands and paving the way for the salesmen.
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In January 2014, Prince Andrew took part in a delegation to Bahrain, a close ally of the United Kingdom.
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Buckingham Palace denied that Prince Andrew Duke of York had used racist language on either occasion.
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In March 2016, Republic CEO Graham Smith filed a formal report to the police, requesting an investigation into allegations that Prince Andrew Duke of York had damaged sensor-operated gates in Windsor Great Park by forcing them open in his Range Rover to avoid going an extra mile on his way home.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York said that she was reduced to tears by Andrew for not properly closing the heavy curtains in his office and added that his behaviour was in contrast to that of his brothers Charles and Edward who "weren't anything like him" and his father Philip whom she described as "so nice and gentlemanly".
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Gruenbaum said Prince Andrew Duke of York arranged regular massages for roughly two months, and she believed requests for massages stopped when he realised he would not get more.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York was described as a "settlor but not a beneficiary", and did not own either of the companies, though Companies House listed him and his private banker of 20 years Harry Keogh as people with "significant control".
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The Prince Andrew Duke of York has repaid the money 16 months later after being contacted by Isbilen's lawyers.
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In January 2022, it was reported that, while Prince Andrew Duke of York retains the style of His Royal Highness, he would no longer use it in a public capacity.
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Prince Andrew Duke of York has since used it in a private capacity.
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Similar pleas have been made by people affiliated with the village of Killyleagh regarding his title of Baron Killyleagh, and the city of York, with Labour Co-op MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell, stating that she would look for ways to make Andrew give up his ducal title if he did not voluntarily relinquish it.