King Charles today formally stripped his brother Andrew of his prince title.
The monarch has also removed his HRH by issuing a rare Letters Patent, making his younger brother officially a commoner.
It marks another dark day for the former Duke of York, whose reputation is in tatters due to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and most recently Virginia Giuffre‘s posthumous autobiography.
Details of the King’s Letters Patent have been published by the Crown Office in The Gazette, the UK’s official public record.
The entry read: ‘THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare 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”.’
Charles has stripped Andrew of his titles and home over the Epstein scandal
It came a week after Buckingham Palace confirmed the 65-year-old would no longer be a Prince with immediate effect – and would also be leaving the 30-bed Royal Lodge nestled in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The Palace coldly announced the ‘censures [were] deemed necessary’ amid the growing controversy surrounding his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Andrew lied about cutting ties with.
It was The Mail on Sunday that revealed Andrew told Epstein in an email ‘we are in this together’ a day after the infamous picture of the former prince with his alleged then-teenage sex victim Virginia Giuffre was published.
In the wake of the fallout, Ms Giuffre’s family said she was ‘an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family’, who had ‘brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage.’
And new emails from unsealed court documents from a legal battle between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan show the former prince told Epstein it would be ‘good to catch up in person’ months after the child sex offender was released.
Andrew has continued to deny the allegations made against him as well as ever meeting Ms Giuffre, who made damning revelations about Mr Mountbatten Windsor in a posthumous memoir. She took her own life earlier this year, aged 41.
In 2022, Andrew settled a US civil case she lodged for a reported £12million, reportedly receiving money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to help meet the costs. The settlement came with no admission of liability
The shunned ex-duke has been erased from the Royal website entirely, with no mention of him on ‘The Royal Family’ page or when the term ‘Andrew’ is entered into the search bar.
Ordinary: Andrew – seen driving his car through Windsor Great Park – will now be considered a regular member of the public
Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Andrew’s former home. He will now be moving to a private residence on the monarch’s Sandringham estate
Andrew has been deleted entirely from the official Royal Family website just a day after he was sensationally stripped of his Prince title and booted out of the Royal Lodge
However, the website is yet to remove previous features relating to his old engagements.
His Majesty’s younger brother will now be banished to a private property on the monarch’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, but no further details have been shared. It is understood Prince William and the Royal Family fully support the King’s decision.
It is understood Prince William and the Royal Family fully support the King’s decision.
Annie Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s earliest accusers who testified in the trial that resulted in the conviction of his long-time aide Ghislaine Maxwell, told the BBC: ‘Virginia did what most thought impossible. She showed the world that even the most powerful predators can be held accountable.’
Meanwhile Andrew’s daughters Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, will retain their titles as Her Royal Highnesses with it previously reported that Charles was was very keen to ‘protect’ his nieces.
Elsewhere, in a brutal remark sources revealed former Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson who lived with Andrew in the Royal Lodge for over two decades, ‘will make her own arrangements’ when it comes to her future.
