Stripped of his titles and now known as plain Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former Prince Andrew's decline, from his tenure as the Queen's favourite to his scandalous fall from grace, is complete.

Here is a timeline in pictures charting his journey from favoured royal to outcast prince.

Mountbatten Windsor was born in 1960, the third child and second son to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Born eight years into Queen Elizabeth's reign, Mountbatten Windsor entered his mother's life when she had more time for her children.

He was widely said to be the Queen's favourite son who had "never done anything wrong in her eyes", according to Princess Diana's butler in the documentary The Royal Family at War.

Mountbatten Windsor served in the Royal Navy between 1979 and

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