Is ANDREW really Prince Phillips son.

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I have thought of this for a while.
Charles, Anne and Edward have longer faces while Andrew has more of a roundish face.
Pity an DNA test can't be done.
Rumours used to go round that one of the queen's race horse trainers might be his father.

treason! Traitor! Off with your head!

I have to agree with you.
Crazy speculation.

"New Royal Revelation As it is revealed that Andrew must be illegitimate has he does not look exactly like his siblings"
Well that's tomorrow's headline sorted. No need to fact-check, since a random MN poster says it it is surely true.
Discovering that all siblings usually look exactly alike and if they don't this must call their parentage into question will come as a terrible shock to a lot of people, pretty much anyone who isn't an identical twin in fact.
Seriously though, I think the OP and other posters on this thread may want to do a little basic research into how genetics actually operate, it's a fascinating and complex matter. It is not as simple as children looking like some weird hybrid carbon copy of their parents.

I think some pro-monarchy types don’t like the idea of the ‘sacred bloodline’ being tainted.

I could not be less interested in the purity of the Windsor bloodline.
I am, however, interested in scientific accuracy, a concept which is woefully lacking on this thread which is why I felt moved to post to try and counteract some of the ridiculous misinformation about heredity being peddled on here. I would have hoped I would not have to explain to adult posters on MN that children born to the same parents will not all look the same, unless, of course, they are identical twins, but, here I am anyway.

Beatrice has the softer, less severe features from her mother's side.

He doesn’t look unlike George V or Prince Leopald? Victoria’s son or even her imo

Beatrice looks like Queen Victoria. Eugenie looks more like her dad. You can see the resemblance better in his younger pics. Andrew and Edward had a definite resemblance to each other as young men.

Yes he is like Harry is Charles son

I remember years ago watching something like a jubilee or a royal wedding on tele and noticing Andrew was the only male member of the royal family with a full head of hair. He stood out like a sore thumb next to Philip, Charles, Edward, William and even Harry whose hair was obviously thinning by this point.

Stumbled into the Porchester rumours online and whilst I’m not convinced myself it’s an interesting theory. Must say I think these sort of rumours are the least of the royals problems at the moment!

The Queen’s father, George VI, had a full head of hair until he died, as did her grandfather George V. With three sons there was always the chance at least one of them was going to take after the mother’s side hair wise.

Exactly. It's not as if he will end up on the throne now so who really cares ... If it is true (and I'm not convinced) if Phillip could get on with life, perhaps we should.

Well. I agree with you. And of course resemblance is so subjective, anyway. I have relatives swearing I’m the spitting image of my mother, and others saying I closely resemble my father. DH’s family think DS is exactly like his father. Structurally that is true, but he gets his fair hair and colouring from me, and his facial expressions remind me strongly of myself in childhood.

But all the queen's children are her children, so it's irrelevant who the father is in terms of succession.

I think, at least historically, legitimacy still mattered. The queen changed things so that Charlotte would not rank below her siblings, but I'm not sure there has been any such tweak in favour of illegitimate children. In this case it is less of an issue as the monarch is female, so knows she birthed the child; but male monarchs were very open to having responsibility attributed so, at least historically, and pre DNA testing, illegitimacy mattered in royal family trees. I am not aware that that has been altered - though happy to stand corrected. Anyway, now Andrew will never be King, his daughters very unlikely to rule, so it is a total non-issue really. I think Louis looks very like Andrew as a child so there are definite likenesses within the pool.

No wonder this country is in trouble when this is what you are worrying over.

Conspiracy theory, it's a story. Do you also think Di was killed off too 🤔🙄🙄🙄

Technically it does matter. The children still have to be born in the marriage to their father to be in the line. That doesn’t change for a female - if she had an illegitimate child they wouldn’t be in line any more than the illegitimate children of previous male monarchs.

It hasn’t been changed. The children still have to be born in a marriage - and in the case of the first 5 or 6 in line to the throne in a marriage approved by the monarch (or through another process if the monarch doesn’t approve).

He said the same thing. Maybe he should have asked either of his sons how to get away with shagging women while his RPOs turned a blind eye. It has all come out of the woodwork. It's more or less an open secret.

She'd become a young queen between having Charles and Anne, and Andrew and Edward. I'm not surprised she didn't want any more children whilst getting to grips with being the monarch.

Yes, that fits with my understanding.

I'm sure your points are very interesting but I'm to busy laughing that you came to a Royal gossip thread looking for scientific accuracy. 🤣

Louis looks like Kate’s dad

Andrew was pleasant looking (in a toothy kind of way). But whatever good looks the Windsor men have tends to disappear early (see Prince William).