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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s name to be hyphenated, as decreed by late queen

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Palace announcement of ex-prince’s new name missed out hyphen used by other descendants of Elizabeth II

Ever since the former Prince Andrew was demoted to plain Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, royal observers and historians have scratched their heads over his missing hyphen.

Buckingham Palace’s official statement announcing his new commoner status was clear, in black and white, that aside from losing his HRH and princely title and dukedom, he was also to be deprived of a punctuation mark that had been officially decreed by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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