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Prince Andrew Posts — and Quickly Deletes — Message With Banned ‘HRH’ Titles Using Ex-Wife Sarah Ferguson’s Instagram

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Royal faux pas. Prince Andrew turned heads when he took over ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s Instagram to share memories of his time in the service — and used his royal titles despite being banned from doing so.The 62-year-old prince commandeered Ferguson’s social media account on Saturday, April 2, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Andrew sailing from Portsmouth to the Falklands as a helicopter pilot for the Royal Navy. (Andrew served in the Falkland War by flying the Sea King helicopter.)The Duke of York — who separated from 62-year-old Ferguson in 1992 after six years of marriage — was asked by his ex-wife to reflect on his experience in the war to commemorate the occasion in three since-deleted Instagram messages.Andrew signed the statement, “written by HRH The Duke of York,” which caused a stir since earlier this year he was stripped of both his military titles and royal responsibilities amid his alleged sexual abuse scandal.“As I sit here at my desk on this cold crisp spring morning thinking back to April 1982, I’ve tried to think what was going through my mind as we sailed out of Portsmouth lining the flight deck of HMS INVINCIBLE,” the prince explained in the first post. “So whilst I think back to a day when a young man went to war, full of bravado, I returned a changed man.

I put away childish things and false bravado and returned a man full in the knowledge of human frailty and suffering.”The royal, who retired from service in 2001 after roughly two decades, described being shot at while on the mission, saying, “I was flying and saw a chaff shell fired from one of our ships that passed not that far in front of us.

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