79 Facts About Prince Andrew

Prince Andrew is the younger brother of King Charles III and the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Andrew served in the Royal Navy as a helicopter pilot and instructor and as the captain of a warship.

Prince Andrew served as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for 10 years until July 2011.

Prince Andrew was baptised in the palace's Music Room on 8 April 1960.

Prince Andrew was sent to Heatherdown School near Ascot in Berkshire.

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Prince Andrew was nicknamed "the Sniggerer" by his schoolmates at Gordonstoun, because of "his penchant for off-colour jokes, at which he laughed inordinately".

Prince Andrew was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 1 September 1981 and appointed to the Trained Strength on 22 October.

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.

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.

Prince Andrew witnessed the Argentinian attack on the SS Atlantic Conveyor.

In late 1983, Prince Andrew transferred to RNAS Portland, and was trained to fly the Lynx helicopter.

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.

Prince Andrew 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.

Prince Andrew 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.

Prince Andrew passed the squadron command examination on 16 July 1991, attended the Staff College, Camberley the following year, and completed the Army Staff course.

Prince Andrew was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on 1 February and passed the ship command examination on 12 March 1992.

From 1995 to 1996, Prince Andrew was posted as Senior Pilot of 815 Naval Air Squadron, then the largest flying unit in the Fleet Air Arm.

Prince Andrew 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.

Prince Andrew ceased using his honorary military titles in January 2022.

Prince Andrew is a keen golfer and has had a low single-figure handicap.

Prince Andrew was captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews between 2003 and 2004—during the club's 250th anniversary season—was patron of a number of royal golf clubs, and had been elected as an honorary member of many others.

Prince Andrew is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the senior maritime City livery company.

Prince Andrew met the American photographer and actress Koo Stark in February 1981, before his active service in the Falklands War.

When Prince Andrew was facing accusations in 2015 over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Stark came to his defence.

Prince Andrew 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 re-acquainted with each other at Royal Ascot in 1985.

In May 2010, Sarah was filmed by a News of the World reporter saying Prince Andrew had agreed that if she were to receive £500,000, he would meet the donor and pass on useful top-level business contacts.

Prince Andrew was filmed receiving, in cash, $40,000 as a down payment.

On 2 June 2022, Prince Andrew 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.

Prince Andrew was criticised in the media after his former wife, Sarah, disclosed that he helped arrange for Epstein to pay off £15,000 of her debts.

Prince Andrew had been photographed in December 2010 strolling with Epstein in Central Park during a visit to New York City.

Prince Andrew maintained that Andrew "spent weeks with us" and received "daily massages".

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.

Similarly, Prince Andrew's name was recorded on 12 May 2001 by Epstein's pilot David Rodgers in his logbook, and he testified that Prince Andrew flew three times with Epstein and Giuffre in 2001.

The following month a picture of Epstein and Maxwell, sitting at a cabin on the Queen's Balmoral estate, around 1999, at the invitation of Prince Andrew, was shown to the jury to establish their status as partners.

Prince Andrew said, "She called me when she was on the trip and she was talking about she knew what they wanted her to do and she was really nervous and scared because she didn't know how to react to it".

Prince Andrew added that Giuffre's claims about dancing with him at a club in London while he was sweaty were false due to him temporarily losing the ability to sweat after an "adrenaline overdose" during the Falklands War.

Prince Andrew said that he does not drink, despite Giuffre's account of him providing alcohol for them both.

Prince Andrew said that he would be willing to testify under oath regarding his associations with Epstein.

On 29 October 2021, Prince Andrew's lawyers filed a response, stating that their client "unequivocally denies Giuffre's false allegations".

On 19 November 2019, the Students' Union of the University of Huddersfield passed a motion to lobby Prince Andrew to resign as its chancellor, as London Metropolitan University was considering Prince Andrew's role as its patron.

On 20 November 2019, a statement from Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew was suspending his public duties "for the foreseeable future".

Three days later, the palace confirmed that Prince Andrew was to step down from all 230 of his patronages, although he expressed a wish to have some sort of public role at some future time.

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.

Buckingham Palace did not comment on the issue, though sources close to Prince Andrew 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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In March 2020, Prince Andrew hired crisis-management expert Mark Gallagher, who had helped high-profile clients falsely accused in Operation Midland.

In June 2020, it became known that Prince Andrew 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.

Newsweek reported that a majority of British citizens believe Prince Andrew should be stripped of his titles and extradited to the United States.

In 2020, prosecutors seeking access to Prince Andrew made a formal mutual legal assistance request to the British government.

Prince Andrew stopped using the style His Royal Highness though it was not formally removed.

In March 2022, Prince 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.

In June 2022, The Telegraph reported that Andrew had asked the Queen to be reinstated as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, to use his HRH title and to be allowed to appear at official events due to his position as a 'prince of the blood'.

Prince Andrew's name featured on one of the lists showing this was a last minute decision.

Prince Andrew toured Canada frequently to undertake duties related to his Canadian military role.

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".

On 3 September 2012, Prince Andrew 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.

In 2013, it was announced that Prince Andrew was becoming the patron of London Metropolitan University and the University of Huddersfield.

Prince Andrew became the patron of the charity Attend in 2003, and was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Royal United Services Institute.

In 2014, Prince Andrew founded the Pitch@Palace initiative to support entrepreneurs with the amplification and acceleration of their business ideas.

Entrepreneurs selected for Pitch@Palace Bootcamp are officially invited by Prince Andrew to attend St James Palace in order to pitch their ideas and to be connected with potential investors, mentors and business contacts.

Prince Andrew 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.

In 2014, Prince Andrew visited Geneva, Switzerland, to promote British science at CERN's 60th anniversary celebrations.

In March 2019, Prince 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.

Prince Andrew had held the position of chairman of the board of trustees of the organisation since 1999.

In May 2019, it was announced that Prince Andrew had succeeded Lord Carrington as patron of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust.

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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 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.

Prince Andrew has fallen for 'friendships' with bad, corrupt and clever men, not only in the US but in Libya, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, wherever.

In May 2016, a fresh controversy broke out when the Daily Mail alleged that Prince Andrew had brokered a deal to assist a Greek and Swiss consortium in securing a £385 million contract to build water and sewerage networks in two of Kazakhstan's largest cities, while working as British trade envoy, and had stood to gain a £4 million payment in commission.

We are concerned that Prince Andrew is used to sell arms, and where you sell arms it is likely to be to despotic regimes.

Prince Andrew is the cheerleader in chief for the arms industry, shaking hands and paving the way for the salesmen.

In January 2014, Prince Andrew took part in a delegation to Bahrain, a close ally of the United Kingdom.

In March 2016, Republic CEO Graham Smith filed a formal report to the police, requesting an investigation into allegations that Prince Andrew 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.

Prince Andrew 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".

Gruenbaum said Prince Andrew arranged regular massages for roughly two months, and she believed requests for massages stopped when he realised he would not get more.

In November 2017, Prince Andrew borrowed £250,000 from Banque Havilland, adding to an existing £1.

Prince Andrew 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".

Kaituni, for whom Andrew allegedly lobbied a British company, had reportedly gifted Princess Beatrice with a £18,000 gold and diamond necklace for her 21st birthday in 2009 and was invited to Princess Eugenie's wedding in 2018.

Similar pleas have been made by people affiliated with the village of Killyleagh and the city of York regarding his titles of Baron Killyleagh and Duke of York, with Labour Co-op MP for York Central, Rachael Maskell, stating that she would look for ways to make Prince Andrew give up his ducal title if he did not voluntarily relinquish it.

In January 2022, it was reported that, while Prince Andrew retains the style of His Royal Highness, he would no longer use it in a public capacity.