Now Andrew's Mr Nobody

FUN, FEISTY AND FEARLESS

- Carole Malone

TWAS a 109-word statement from Buckingham Palace that finally ripped away what was left of Andrew’s royal life. And the evisceration couldn’t have been more brutal. Now everything that could have been taken from him has.

This selfish, arrogant man who was born a Prince, became a Duke and gathered a dazzling array of other titles and honours, will end his life with none of them.

He'll be just Andrew Mountbatten Windsor — an outcast, an embarrassment stripped of everything that mattered to him.

And those titles really did matter to Andrew. As did living in the palatial Royal Lodge. Because having achieved little in what has essentially been a wasted life, the titles, the trappings, the status, the privilege, the gold-braided uniforms are what set Andrew apart from us mere mortals.