Andrew Mountbatten Windsor no longer a prince after king formally removes title

Published on 06/11/2025 - 18:58 GMT+1

King Charles has formally stripped his brother, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, of nan title of prince successful a general archive affixed pinch a royal seal.

The disgraced erstwhile royal has besides mislaid nan nickname "his royal highness" aft nan king issued a Letters Patent, a centuries-old type of archive utilized by monarchs to bestow and region appointments aliases titles.

An announcement published connected Wednesday successful The Gazette, nan UK’s charismatic nationalist record, said "THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent nether nan Great Seal of nan Realm dated 3 November 2025 to state that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall nary longer beryllium entitled to clasp and bask nan style, title aliases property of 'Royal Highness' and nan titular dignity of ‘Prince.'"

The king besides formally removed nan title Duke of York from his brother.

The monarch announced connected 31 October that he was removing his brother's titles and evicting him from his royal residence complete his narration pinch nan convicted activity offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Demand had been increasing connected nan palace to oust nan 65-year-old erstwhile prince from his Royal Lodge location complete caller revelations astir his relationship pinch Epstein and renewed attraction connected intersexual maltreatment allegations by 1 of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whose posthumous memoir was published past month.

The king went moreover further to punish Mountbatten Windsor for superior lapses of judgement by removing nan title of prince that he has held since commencement arsenic a kid of a monarch, nan precocious Queen Elizabeth II.

Andrew besides is moving from Royal Lodge, nan 30-room mansion adjacent Windsor Castle wherever he has lived for much than 20 years, into a much distant location privately funded by his relative connected nan king’s Sandringham Estate successful eastbound England.

The king's determination was welcomed by nan family of Giuffre, who died by termination successful April astatine nan property of 41.

She said that successful nan early 2000s, erstwhile she was a teenager, she was caught up successful Epstein’s activity trafficking ringing and exploited by Andrew and different influential men.

Andrew denies Giuffre's allegations.

Epstein was recovered dormant successful a New York City jailhouse compartment successful 2019 successful what investigators called a suicide.