Moment 'it all went wrong' for Prince Andrew as expert says he's 'not cut out for the job'

The defining moment where it "all went wrong" for Prince Andrew has been pinpointed by one royal expert. The 65-year-old recently revealed via a statement from Buckingham Palace that he will not use his remaining royal titles and honours in public.

The decision came after his association with convicted paedophile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines, as well as his links with an alleged Chinese spy. Following his disastrous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, Andrew made the decision to step down as a working member of the Royal Family in 2019.

Discussing Andrew, royal expert Richard Kay has said it "all went wrong" for him after one major decision to leave the Royal Navy.

Speaking on the latest episode of the Daily Mail's Palace Confidential, he explains that the royal appeared to have "had enough", with the decision to leave opened up "dodgy doors for him".

Asked by the host Jo Elvin when it "all went wrong", he said: "For my money, the moment it all went wrong was when he decided he'd had enough of the Royal Navy and he wanted to do other things.

"The decision in 2001 by the then-Labour Government to make him a roving ambassador on behalf of UK PLC. It wan an unpaid job, but it opened all sorts of dodgy doors to him. I think that was a catastrophic decision."

Explaining further, Mr Kay added: "We had a very good and very competent ambassador doing the job [before Andrew] who didn't cause a headline. His name, the Duke of Kent, he's still with us.

"He's done that job magnificently for years and they took it away from him and gave it to Prince Andrew and Andrew was not cut out and not equipped to do it."

Prince Andrew joined the Royal Navy in 1979. He remained on the Active List of the Navy list until 2001, which is when he became a working member of the Royal Family.