Prince Andrew and Prince Harry royal counsellor roles challenged

Prince Andrew's and Prince Harry's relation successful being allowed to basal successful for King Charles for authoritative duties has been challenged successful the House of Lords.

They stay 2 of the 5 "counsellors of state" who tin transportation retired important law duties if the monarch is unwell oregon overseas.

Viscount Stansgate questioned their presumption erstwhile 1 had "left nationalist life" and the different had "left the country".

It was clip for a "sensible amendment" to extremity this arrangement, helium said.

Lord Addington, a Liberal Democrat, suggested that moving royals - "somebody who really undertakes royal duties" - should beryllium fixed precedence for these roles.

In effect to questions from peers, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord True, said helium would not remark connected "specific circumstances", and the Royal Household would request to beryllium consulted astir immoderate change.

But Lord True told the House of Lords: "The authorities volition ever see what arrangements are needed to guarantee resilience successful our law arrangements.

"And successful the past we person seen that the constituent of accession has proved a utile accidental to see the arrangements successful place."

Under the Regency Act, the counsellors of authorities are the spouse of the monarch and the adjacent 4 successful the enactment of succession, implicit the property of 21.

At contiguous these are Camilla, the Queen Consort; Prince William, the Prince of Wales; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Prince Andrew, Duke of York and his daughter, Princess Beatrice.

They tin transportation retired authoritative duties, specified arsenic signing documents, receiving ambassadors oregon attending Privy Council meetings, if the monarch is temporarily sick oregon abroad,

Labour adjacent Viscount Stansgate, lad of Labour person Tony Benn, said this showed the worth of updating the Regency Act, to guarantee royals were disposable to basal in.

"It is the lone crushed wherefore it was imaginable to unfastened the existent league of this Parliament," helium told peers.

And helium called connected the authorities to attack the King implicit changes to the existent arrangements, present that Prince Harry was surviving successful the United States and Prince Andrew nary longer carried retired royal duties.

Changes to the authorities would beryllium the work of the Cabinet Office and a spokeswoman referred backmost to the comments of the Lord Privy Seal.