Prince Andrew’s previously-defunct website appears to have been relaunched – but in another language. The 65-year-old announced that he will relinquish his remaining titles and honours with immediate effect earlier this month.
The decision came after his association with convicted paedophile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines, as well as his links with an alleged Chinese spy. Following his decision to no longer use his Duke of York title, the official Royal Family website has removed any trace of the title – instead referring to him as simply ‘Prince Andrew’.
Although the major change has been made, it appears to have inadvertently set the previously defunct York website live again.
When he stepped down as working royal in 2019, his website http://TheDukeofYork.org was redirected to the official page of the Royal Family.
However, the site appears to be up and running again, although it is no longer in English, but in Vietnamese. Some on social media speculated that the blunder may have been due to the change in Andrew’s page, breaking the redirect.
Even though Prince Andrew announced that he will no longer use his Duke of York title in a statement released on October 17, there is a specific reason why he still holds it.
Taking to X, broadcaster and historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo has shared that although Andrew has agreed to not use, or be known by his royal titles, it is only Parliament that can officially strip him of the Duke of York title.
He wrote: “…Only Parliament can strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom.
“This has not been done since the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, which removed peerages from individuals who were deemed enemies of the United Kingdom during the Great War.
