When it comes to family showdowns, Prince Charles doesn’t pull any punches. He is known for being “to the point and icy, rather than angry,” according to a family friend, so his imminent meeting with his brother, Prince Andrew, will be frosty, to say the least.

While Clarence House will not comment on when Charles is due to meet with his younger brother, sources close to the Prince of Wales, who returned this morning from his overseas tour of New Zealand and the South Pacific, say he will soon be meeting Andrew for a one-on-one at Clarence House, Charles’s official residence.

“Make no mistake, Charles is furious,” said a family friend. “I imagine he will feel that Andrew has let the family down, and that he misled his mother over the interview, and in doing so has compromised the Queen. He’s not always firm with his sons, William and Harry, but he’ll take a tough line with Andrew. He will also be furious that the story has totally overshadowed his working tour, and he’ll let rip, but he will have a strategy.”

It is believed that the strategy involves Andrew not returning to public duties. Over the weekend, it emerged that Prince William had also reportedly been part of the top-level discussions in Andrew stepping down.

A source told the Sunday Times that William had spoken to the Queen and Charles about Andrew’s future and believed his removal from public life was “the right thing.” Another source said, “William is becoming more and more involved in decisions about the institution [monarchy], and he’s not a huge fan of his uncle Andrew.”

Charles, who is said to have advised his mother last week that Andrew had to step down from official duties to protect the monarchy, has reportedly long wanted a streamlined royal family following in the steps of the newly downsized Swedish monarchy.

He is said to want to distance his brother from “the firm” in order to minimize any more damage. While the fallout from the BBC Newsnight interview has been catastrophic, there could be even more negative headlines for the duke, who has said he is willing to be interviewed by law enforcement agencies about his friendship with the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, a special edition of Panorama with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has said she was forced by Epstein to have sex with Andrew when she was 17, is scheduled to air early next month. (Andrew has denied the allegations.)

While Andrew said in his statement last week that he was stepping down from royal duties only “for the foreseeable future,” his role as a working royal is effectively over. His private office at Buckingham Palace is to be disbanded, and a planned 60th-birthday celebration with his charities has reportedly been canceled at the Queen’s request.

While the Duke was described as “very quiet and almost withdrawn” by someone who spoke with him last week, he is determined that his daughters should not suffer in the fallout of his scandal.

“He knows what’s coming from Charles, but his first thought is for the girls and how this is impacting them,” the source told Vanity Fair. “Andrew will do everything he can to protect them and make sure they are looked after, and to his credit, Charles is very fond of Beatrice and Eugenie and has always been kind to them.”