2025 Moments: What Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor does next
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's arguably the biggest royal scandal since 1992's "annus horribilis" - Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, stripped of his titles and set to be evicted from Royal Lodge in Windsor.
Now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, his downfall was caused by more revelations over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In the first of our festive episodes looking back at the biggest moments of the year, Niall is joined by ex-BBC royal watcher Jennie Bond and Sky's royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills.
They discuss why the King decided to take such a drastic step by ostracising his brother and whether it's enough to limit the damage done to 'The Firm'.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Mike Bovill
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:10.4 | Coming up from Playboy Prince to Palace Pariah. |
| 0:14.8 | Andrew, a royal, whose role is now best described as elephant in the room, |
| 0:18.8 | had a spectacular fall from grace. |
| 0:21.7 | It was back in October |
| 0:23.2 | that his titles were taken from him |
| 0:24.8 | and he began to prepare for a life in exile. |
| 0:27.9 | Well, as we headed into Christmas here on the Sky News Daily, |
| 0:30.6 | we're putting that under the microscope with our experts, |
| 0:33.9 | profiling the moment that Prince Andrew |
| 0:35.7 | became Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. |
| 0:39.3 | Before history was written, his name was carved in stone. |
| 0:44.3 | Now witness the legacy of Ramesses the Great. |
| 0:48.3 | 180 priceless treasures direct from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in the UK for the first and only time. |
| 0:57.9 | Ramesses and the Pharaoh's Gold, The Exhibition, at Battersea Power Station. Book now at Ramesses |
| 1:05.5 | the Exhibition.com.uk. At TFL, we're making tube journeys faster in the future, with signalling improvements underway on the Circle District, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan Lines. |
| 1:19.0 | And there's also the Elizabeth Line already giving you fast journeys across central London. |
| 1:23.8 | That is how we're making the greener way to travel brighter for everyone. |
| 1:28.0 | Search TFL improvement plan. |
| 1:30.0 | To the Mayor of London and TFL, every journey matters. |
| 1:33.7 | Elizabeth Lyon is fast compared to other TFL modes, |
| 1:36.5 | greener than total estimated petrol and diesel car emissions. |
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