Canadian High School To Drop Prince Andrew Name

The Halifax Coast reports:

On Wednesday morning, Craig Campbell, the principal of Dartmouth’s Prince Andrew High School, sent out a mass email. “I am writing to share some exciting news!” he began, going on to say “we are resuming the process of changing the name of Prince Andrew High School.”

The Woodlawn Road school first opened in 1960, and currently has an enrollment of about 800 students in grades 10 to 12. But its moniker has been a topic of debate since around 2011, when the school’s namesake—then known as Prince Andrew, Duke of York—became embroiled in a juvenile sex trafficking scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein.

Although Randy Andy has categorically denied the accusations, he permanently resigned from public roles in May 2020 and his royal and military titles were stripped earlier this month.

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