King Charles is stripping his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicting him from his royal residence, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.
In a statement, the palace said Andrew will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince, and he will move from his Royal Lodge residence into “private accommodation”.
The move follows revelations about Andrew’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Pressure had been growing on the palace to oust the prince from Royal Lodge after he surrendered his use of the title Duke of York earlier this month over his friendship with Epstein and allegations by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
But the king went even further, stripping him of the title of prince that he has had since birth as a child of a monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth.
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said.
