Kate and William carry on regardless: Waleses outline their vision for a 'better world' the day after Andrew is finally banished from the Royal Family as they announce Earthshot Prize finalists.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor might have been given his marching orders – but it's business as usual for the Prince and Princess of Wales.
William and Kate have taken to social media to share their hopes for a 'better world' less than a day after the Prince's uncle was unceremoniously shown the door.
The couple shared a post on their Kensington Royal X account detailing the final three finalists for the Earthshot Prize, William's pet project that recognises and awards funds to groundbreaking environmental research projects.
A two–minute long video – which does not feature the couple – details how three projects in Barbados, the Bangladesh and the USA are helping to project people and mitigate against climate change.
This is the fifth day in a row that the Waleses have shared a video on Earthshot finalists, having posted a video each day this week since Monday detailing three different initiatives doing their part to save the planet.
And it seems not even the news around Andrew will deter the Prince of Wales from promoting the Earthshot Prize, a personal project that is close to his heart.
Writing on X, the Prince and Princess said: 'We envision a world that’s a better, more sustainable home for everyone.
'A world where greenhouse gas emissions are falling, and carbon–neutral economies help protect the most vulnerable. A world like this is within reach.'
They then began to post an 'October rewind', recapping their engagements over the last month including a visit by the Prince to the London Ambulance Service headquarters to mark its 60th anniversary.
The posts came less than a day after Buckingham Palace announced that the King had begun the formal process of stripping Andrew of his HRH style as well as his titles and honours.
Under the arrangement – understood to have come from the King himself, with no direction from the rest of the family or the government – Andrew will be required to vacate Royal Lodge at Windsor and has surrendered the right to be a 'prince'.
He is now, effectively, in the words of one government minister, an 'ordinary member of the public' – but will live under his brother's keep at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the King was spotted earlier today.
In a decisively cold statement, the Palace said: 'Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
'These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.'
Pointedly, it added of the King and Queen: 'Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.'
A Kensington Palace source said: 'The Royal Family, including the Prince of Wales, fully support the King's leadership on this matter. These decisions have been the King's, with the support of the wider family.'
The decision to all but banish Andrew from royal life has prompted the family of Virginia Giuffre, who alleged to have been sexually assaulted by the ex–duke, to 'come clean' about his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew lied in his disastrously 2019 Newsnight interview that he had ceased contact with Epstein in December 2010, but bombshell emails obtained by the Mail revealed that he continued to keep in contact into 2011.
In one email, he even vowed to the convicted child sex offender that 'we are in this together' and that they would 'keep in close touch' and 'play some more soon'.
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