He has lost his titles, his house and his reputation but the former Prince Andrew has gained a hyphen.

The royal is now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and not - as previously announced - Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

The change makes the name's style conform to the double-barrelled surname chosen by the late Queen Elizabeth II for her descendants 65 years ago.

It combines the royal family's name of Windsor, chosen by King George V in 1917, with Mountbatten - the surname of the queen's husband Prince Philip.

The queen had initially decided to use Windsor alone, leading her husband to complain that he was the only man in England not allowed to give his children his name.

Elizabeth relented, and in an official declaration on February 8, 1960 - days before her son Andrew was born - sai

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