Prince Andrew, Duke of York on two stamps with HMS "Herald", issued by Saint Helena. Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Andrew, Duke of York, (Andrew Albert Christian Edward, born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family. He is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne; he is seventh in line. He holds the rank of commander and the honorary rank of Vice Admiral (as of February 2015) in the Royal Navy, in which
Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark sons-in-law fought on the German side. Prince Christoph of Hesse was a member of the Nazi Party and the Waffen-SS. Berthold, Margrave of Baden, was invalided out of the Wehrmacht in 1940 after an injury in France. For five years, Andrew saw neither his wife nor his son. He died in the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo, Monaco, of heart failure and arteriosclerosis just as the war was ending. Andrew was at first buried in the Russian Orthodox church in Nice, but in 1946 his remains were transferred, by the Greek cruiser "Averof", to the royal cemetery at Tatoi Palace, near