The royal family has ruled on whether Prince Andrew will be allowed to return to royal office amid reports that the dishonored duke plans to return.
Prince Andrew has been banned from appearing in public at today’s Order of the League ceremony after Charles and William pressured the queen.
The disgraced Duke, 62, hoped his appearance with the royal family would be a springboard back to public life.
But members of the royal family feared a “negative reaction.” The sun reports.
Andrew will only be able to participate in private aspects of the Windsor ceremony.
The queen ordered Andrew to stay out of sight “for her own good” after tense family conversations.
It comes after Charles and William feared a public “reaction” if he was seen in public in a royal engagement.
The disgraced 62-year-old Duke of York was waiting to appear while planning a royal return.
He has asked the 96-year-old queen to return her sponsorships and RHS title just five months after they were stripped.
He lost his titles in the middle of the very damaging case filed against him by sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, 38, which sparked a multimillion-pound payment in February.
A source said: “I was confident and optimistic that he could return.”
But now the Duke will not join the family members in his velvet robes and walk to the ceremony in St George’s Chapel, nor will he take carriages back to Windsor Castle.
A source said: “It was a decision made by the family in the best interest of the family, but also in the best interest of the Duke of York.”
The public will gather at the ceremony to see how the royal family walks, including Camilla, who is being named a member of the chivalric order.
Instead, Andrew has been told he can only attend the private aspects of the ceremony, which has not been held since 2019 due to Covid.
He had been singled out this week as the start of his attempts to return and was scheduled to attend Royal Ascot, which starts tomorrow.
It was understood that Charles and William had agreed to their approach yesterday before telling the Queen that she made the final decision.
The dishonored duke was expected to reunite with other members of the royal family in his blue velvet robes and black velvet hats with white feathers from 2.30pm today.
The rest of the family will walk from the Castle Quadrangle downhill to the chapel and return in carriages.
Andrew remains a Knight of the Order of the League, although he relinquished royal duty because of his ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and stripped him of his royal role.
The Order of the League, founded by Edward III in 1348, is the oldest British Order of Cavalry.
Andrew was still expected at a private ceremony in the Throne Room of Windsor Castle League, where Camilla will be named Royal Lady of the League and former Prime Minister Tony Blair will be named Knight’s Companion.
It was also thought that Andreu could attend lunch with the rest of Cavallers.
The ceremony was to be Andy’s first public outing since bringing the Queen to Westminster Abbey on March 29 for Prince Philip’s Thanksgiving Service.
It was a decision made by the family for the best interest of the family but also for the best interest of the Duke of York.
He lost his platinum jubilee after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
During the last talks, he demanded the return to public life and the right to use his status as SAR and Colonel of the Grenadier Guard.
But Prince Charles, 73, and Prince William, 39, have stopped in their tracks.
The sun he understands that he expected to appear at least twice at Royal Ascot this week.
Palace experts called his attempt to return to royal office “delusional.”
A source said: “His fight for his reappearance is likely to be condemned.
“He’s delirious if he thinks Charles or William will let him back. The queen is the only person who has supported Andrew.”
The Grenadier Guards are unlikely to return to Andrew because of their links to Epstein and the Giuffre scandal. The sun understand.
Andrew has also been pushing for his daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, to become members of the royal family who work so that they can have financial security and have a royal home.
He left the royal post after his car accident News interview about his ties to financier Epstein. But it came to light again when Mrs Giuffre took legal action last August.
After a series of court hearings in New York, the duke agreed to settle the case while flatly denying any crime.
He agreed to pay up to £ 12 million ($ 21 million) to his sexual abuse accuser and make a donation to charity instead of going to court.
When the queen stripped him of his titles, the Palace said he “will continue to assume no public duty” and that he had reduced himself to a “private citizen.”
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said last night: “The situation in January is still like this.”
This article originally appeared in The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission
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