With the various and conflicting reports concerning whose advice Andrew took about doing the interview, there remains the unanswered question about why the timing. Was the hope the interview would be buried amidst the election coverage? Was it an impulsive, petulant reaction to some counter advise? Might there have been a tip off of an imminent new revelation and this was a knee jerk reaction?
I take ‘for the foreseeable future’ as polite ambiguity which is done to save face for Andrew. Indeed, it might be the only way he was persuaded for the wording of the statement to go ahead. I also cannot see him taking part in the Remembrance commemorations. It is unlikely that a risk would be taken in such an emotionally charged situation. Trooping the Colour is the official birthday of the Queen, not a family occasion, so it is a ‘public duty’ . I think he will gradually relinquish his posts, once replacements have been found, including his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards sometime in the New Year.