{"id":28664,"date":"2022-12-22T09:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28664"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:04:03","slug":"king-charles-iii-demotes-prince-andrew-and-made-his-wife-colonel-of-the-grenadier-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/22\/king-charles-iii-demotes-prince-andrew-and-made-his-wife-colonel-of-the-grenadier-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III demotes Prince Andrew and made his wife Colonel of the Grenadier Guards\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\u00a0Queen Consort has taken over disgraced\u00a0Prince Andrew\u2019s role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in a shake-up of senior royal military positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shuffle will also see the\u00a0Princess of Wales\u00a0promoted to her first Army role, taking over as colonel of the Irish Guards from her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prince of Wales will become colonel of the Welsh Guards instead.Top Storiesby\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>00:2202:00

Buckingham Palace\u00a0announced the changes ahead of next year\u2019s Trooping the Colour, which has marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for more than 250 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Queen Consort (pictured) has taken over disgraced Prince Andrew\u2019s role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in a shake-up of senior royal military positions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prince\u00a0Andrew inherited the position of colonel of the Grenadier Guards from his late father, the Duke of Edinburgh, when he retired from public life in 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The King\u2019s Birthday Parade \u2013 Charles\u2019s first \u2013 will take place on the slightly later date of June 17. The King\u2019s actual birthday is November 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will see the Household Division on Horse Guards Parade, with the monarch attending and taking the salute. There are seven regiments of the senior military unit, which is responsible for delivering state ceremonial and public duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reigning monarch normally holds the appointment of colonel-in-chief of the regiments, but each one also has a colonel who is normally either a member of the Royal Family or a senior officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew inherited the position of colonel of the Grenadier Guards from his late father, the Duke of Edinburgh, when he retired from public life in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the oldest and most iconic regiments in the British Army, it was seen as a plum role \u2013 and one that had particular emotional significance given how popular Philip was. He served in the role for 42 years and was loved by both rank and file, as well as top brass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew, never as keen an equestrian as his siblings, even took riding lessons so that he could appear on horseback. But following his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, the prince was forced by the Queen to step down from official royal duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen Consort Camilla visits Emmaus Community in south east London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The shuffle will also see the Princess of Wales promoted to her first Army role, taking over as colonel of the Irish Guards from her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Prince of Wales (behind the King) will become colonel of the Welsh Guards instead. Buckingham Palace announced the changes ahead of next year\u2019s Trooping the Colour, which has marked the official birthday of the British Sovereign for more than 250 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he was allowed to keep ten military affiliations, including colonel of the Grenadier Guards, while he worked to clear his name amid the scandal of his association with US paedophile Jeffery Epstein. He was finally stripped of the ceremonial title earlier this year in the aftermath of his decision to settle a civil lawsuit with one of Epstein\u2019s victims, Virginia Giuffre, who had also accused him of assault. He has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources said it was the ultimate humiliation for the ex-Royal Navy helicopter pilot, who prided himself on his association with the military. Camilla\u2019s appointment to the position was seen as a surprise last night, but may be interpreted as a wise move by the King.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Queen Consort, she is the highest ranking woman in the Royal Family, which could give Andrew little cause to complain.William, as colonel of the Welsh Guards, will be looking to continue to establish his links with the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kate has long accompanied her husband to the St Patrick\u2019s Day parades of the Irish Guards, handing out sprigs of shamrock \u2013 but now will be the regiment\u2019s colonel in her own right. She is not expected to wear a uniform, however. Prince Harry is a proud Army veteran and twice served in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would have been expected to have been made colonel of a regiment had he not quit as a working royal and moved to California with his wife Meghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Queen Consort has taken over disgraced\u00a0Prince Andrew\u2019s role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards in a shake-up of senior royal military positions. The shuffle will also see the\u00a0Princess of Wales\u00a0promoted to her first Army role, taking over as colonel of the Irish Guards from her husband. The Prince of Wales will become colonel of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11261,4342,11746,8217,183,2735,8713,5268,6900,2848,1248,5435,12559,5455,11638,69,9390,11493,9080,3040,4056,7874,7881,3684,70,5572,1249,10349,11973,755,5911,7803,740,965,2815,3927,8130,8133,7979,12264,3401,5815,6348,9539,9268,1254,3954,5273,594],"class_list":["post-28664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-afghanistan","tag-appointment","tag-army","tag-assault","tag-bbc","tag-birthday","tag-british","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-california","tag-camilla","tag-duke-of-edinburgh","tag-epstein","tag-family","tag-forced","tag-harry","tag-helicopter","tag-interview","tag-irish-guards","tag-kate","tag-kate-middleton","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-london","tag-meghan","tag-military","tag-monarch","tag-navy","tag-one","tag-paedophile","tag-patrick","tag-pilot","tag-prince-andrew","tag-prince-harry","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-queen","tag-queen-consort","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-navy","tag-scandal","tag-taking-over","tag-uniform","tag-us","tag-victims","tag-virginia","tag-wales","tag-will","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}