Three months after Cobourg Council approved a notice of motion a plaque to remove a plaque commemorating the visit by the Duke and Duchess of York it has finally be removed from outside the Cobourg Public Library.
In late November, 2025, Councillor Adam Bureau made a notice of motion to council regarding the plaque and asking it be removed from the west entrance of the C. Gordon King Centre.
The plaque states, “Duke of York Square named for the Duke and Duchess of York to commemorate their visit to Cobourg in the Sesquicentennial Year of the Incorporation of Cobourg July 19, 1987.”
The square was so named during a royal visit that year, when the C. Gordon King Centre was eight years in the future and the site was only a vacant open square.
Bureau’s motion noted that “on Nov. 3, 2025, by letters patent under the great seal of the realm King Charles declared that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness and the titular dignity of Prince.
Although the motion was passed in November 2025 as of February 19, 2026 the plaque still remained on the boulder.
On Thursday, the former Duke was arrested and held for hours by British police on suspicion of misconduct.
On Friday, February 20, 2026 the plaque was removed.
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