Three weeks after losing his titles as Prince and Duke of York, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been erased from history Falkland Islands. At Mount Pleasant, the airport Yates inaugurated in 1985 to applause three years after he returned from the war, the plaque he inaugurated has been removed. The same fate befell him at Infants’ High School in Stanley, where a dedication to the former prince was removed from the wall. Andrea “is no longer associated with our school,” a school official told the Mirror. King Charles’s brother had embodied British valor in the South Atlantic islands. Today, every trace of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is removed from public buildings. Plaques and tributes removed, patronage cancelled. The British tabloid reports that everything is being done to ensure that Queen Elizabeth’s favorite son is no longer honored where he was once celebrated. But in 1982, as a helicopter pilot on the Sea King, Andrea was welcomed home as a hero, after acting as decoy to repel an Argentinian Exocet missile, a dangerous mission of which he is still very proud to this day.
The decision
A series of decisions regarding Andrea were taken in the Falklands following revelations of recent links between Jeffrey Epstein and Andrew. Honorary president of several local wildlife conservation societies, he has also witnessed the loss of support for these organizations: even the old plaque from the New Island research center has disappeared. And in 2022, after Andrew reached a financial settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual harassment, the islands’ Kemh hospital removed his name from the building. The region’s MP, John Birmingham, said at the time: “Renovations are underway and, when the Prince retires from public life, the plaque bearing his name will return to the Falkland Islands Museum.” In short, in addition to the revocation of the royal title, the imminent eviction from the Royal Lodge, the possible loss of custody of Queen Elizabeth’s beloved dog, the estrangement of his ex-wife Sara, who until yesterday was his roommate at the Royal Lodge and could even move to Portugal, the loneliness of the former Duke of York which led to his move to Sandringham, seems increasingly real, even abroad. Very clear evidence of this is the sad photo published yesterday by the Daily Mail, which shows the former prince on horseback in the grounds of Windsor Castle, his gaze fixed on the ground and autumn leaves in the background.
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