The year that rocked the Royal family: 'Andrew's not going quietly'
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The Telegraph
4.1 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode was recorded before the release of the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents by Donald Trump’s justice department.
The year of 2025 will go down as the year the House of York finally collapsed.
The Duke of York was stripped of his remaining royal titles and protections after his damaging emails with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were exposed. Even Sarah Ferguson was dragged back into a scandal.
Camilla is joined by Royal biographer Andrew Lownie and Hannah Furness, the Telegraph’s Royal editor, to examine how things fell apart for Prince Andrew; the Palace’s shifting stance; and what his future may hold.
They also assess the cautious re-emergence of Prince Harry after a security ruling U-turn and rare meeting with King Charles; Meghan Markle’s controversies; and the Prince and Princess of Wales's growing influence.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. It's been a busy year that has witnessed the fall of the House of York, |
| 0:13.5 | finally, the return to work of the Princess of Wales after recovering from cancer and Harry and |
| 0:18.6 | Meghan doing, well, Harry and Megan things. |
| 0:21.7 | 2025 has been a right royal year and in this special episode we're going to look at some |
| 0:27.1 | of the highlights and low lights. Welcome to the Daily Tea with me Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, joining us to the Daily Tea March down memory lane back to January 2025 all the way through to Christmas with bells on at Windsor, I'm thinking, Hannah Furness. |
| 0:58.7 | Our Royal editor joins us now in the studio with Andrew Launy, who's the royal biographer that has made headlines this year with his explosive book on The Yorks. |
| 1:01.7 | Is it Windsor? Where are they having Christmas? I've lost my mind. They're still at Sandringham. |
| 1:04.9 | They're still at Sandringham. Tradition reigns supreme. But one person who won't be there, Andrew, |
| 1:10.3 | is the other Andrew, the Andrew |
| 1:12.6 | formerly known as Prince, now defenestrated and hanging out somewhere in a little cottage by |
| 1:18.1 | himself, being a couch potato, according to Hannah. Andrew. Well, he's not quite. I mean, he's still |
| 1:24.8 | in Royal Lodge. I think he's going to be there for a long time still. |
| 1:28.3 | I think that when he does move next year, it's going to be something rather more than a shoebox. |
| 1:34.3 | So I don't feel too sorry for him. I think he's still digging in his heels. He's not moving easily. |
| 1:40.6 | He wants to be paid off for giving up his lease. He wants proper staff. So I don't think we're going to see him shopping in Little next year. Right. Shame because we'd all look forward to that. It's been a huge downfall this year, though, hasn't it? So if we look back a year ago, the Chinese spy scandal had just happened. Yes. Then over the course of this year, we've had the Epstein email that revealed he was in |
| 2:01.4 | touch with Jeffrey Epstein at least five years longer than he said he had been. Then we had the Virginia |
| 2:06.7 | Geoffrey her suicide, her memoir. And then finally, only come autumn when all eyes turned to Royal |
| 2:13.6 | Lodge and his peppercorn rent did everything start happening. And then he's lost his titles and he's lost his home. Why is it? Do you agree with this, Andrew? This is getting |
| 2:23.2 | confusing. We should say the disgraced Duke and then, well, we can't call him a Duke anymore. |
| 2:27.8 | So actually I can't even do that. Mr. Mountbatten Windsor, he shall therein be known as. |
| 2:32.6 | But Hannah, do you agree with Andrew Lowney that the reason that he is delaying now and we thought he might be kicked out of Royal Lodge before Christmas, but it's going to take a year to get him out of there is because he's saying, well, I sign my lease and sorry, and he's not going quietly. Is that also your impression? Well, he doesn't want to go, does he? There's no sort of huge impetus to be packing up 30 years, |
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