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The Duke's removal from the last vestiges of royal life has not only reshaped his future - it's creating waves through his family too.

Sarah Ferguson's New Status

His ex-wife has now surrendered her ducal status and will now be referred to as Sarah Ferguson.

For Sarah, sixty-six, the change will be the most visible.

Throughout this period, she has kept the courtesy royal post-marital designation Sarah, York Duchess. Currently, she reverts to her birth name of Ferguson.

"She will have lost a bit of cachet over this," said one monarchy expert. "She certainly utilizes the title – including her social media profile is @TheDuchessSarah."

But the relinquishment of her status may impact her much less than the scandal she's dealing with independently about her own links with the convicted financier.

Recently, multiple organizations removed her as patron after correspondence from 2011 showed that she called Epstein her "supreme friend" and appeared to express regret for her negative comments of him.

Professional Endeavors and Charity Work

Away from her philanthropy, Ferguson also has multiple commercial enterprises.

And these ventures, are more probable to be impacted by the Epstein scandal than any change in title, notes one monarchy analyst.

But Ferguson has been a great survivor in monarchical networks. She's kept bouncing back.

"She is the ultimate survivor and master of reinvention," commented one monarchy writer.

The Daughters

For Andrew and Sarah's two daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, there's no formal change.

They will still be known as princesses, which they have been granted since birth.

Additionally there is no modification to the royal succession order.

The prince stays eighth position to the crown, succeeded by his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, in ninth and twelfth place respectively.

But in reality their positions are "distant" and will probably become even more remote as time goes on.

Coming Opportunities

The princesses are also currently non-working royals, and while they do sometimes accept positions – The younger princess was recently named as a advisor for the King's Foundation network – experts also suggest they "can't see a world" in which they would step up into official responsibilities.

"Regarding Beatrice and Eugenie are concerned, I think there's an understanding of the fact that this controversy isn't about them, and it's not fair for it to impact them directly in the separate paths they are building for themselves," explains one monarchy analyst.

"The princesses are particularly unlucky affected parties, they've had to suffer in silence and have been composed in their reserve," adds another monarchy writer.

Final Impact

In the end, there appears to be minimal uncertainty that the person who will be most impacted by all of this will be the Duke himself.

For a man who always liked the royal privileges, the pomp and the pageantry, the relinquishment of his honors is deeply humiliating.

So to not have those, on a personal level, will significantly count.