Utilizing a proper doc affixed with a royal seal, King Charles III has formally stripped his brother Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of the title of prince.
The disgraced royal has additionally misplaced the designation “his royal highness” after the king issued a Letters Patent, a centuries-old sort of doc utilized by monarchs to bestow — and take away — appointments or titles.
An announcement published Wednesday in The Gazette — the U.Ok.’s official public report — stated “THE KING has been happy by Letters Patent underneath the Nice Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall not be entitled to carry and benefit from the model, title or attribute of ‘Royal Highness’ and the titular dignity of “Prince.’”
The king additionally formally eliminated the title Duke of York from his brother.
The king introduced on Oct. 30 that he was removing his brother’s titles and evicting him from his royal residence over his relationship with intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Demand had been rising on the palace to oust the 65-year-old prince from his Royal Lodge dwelling over new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed consideration on sexual abuse allegations by considered one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whose posthumous memoir was revealed final month.
The king went even additional to punish Mountbatten Windsor for critical lapses of judgment by eradicating the title of prince that he has held since start as a toddler of a monarch, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Andrew is also being compelled to maneuver from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion close to Windsor Citadel the place he has lived for greater than 20 years, right into a extra distant dwelling funded by his brother on the king’s 20,000-acre (8,100 hectare) Sandringham Property in jap England.
The king’s determination was welcomed by the household of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April on the age of 41.
She stated that within the early 2000s, when she was an adolescent, she was caught up in Epstein’s intercourse trafficking ring and exploited by Andrew and different influential males. Epstein was discovered useless in a New York Metropolis jail cell in 2019 in what investigators referred to as a suicide.
Andrew denies Giuffre’s allegations.
Democrats on a U.S. congressional committee investigating Epstein’s intercourse trafficking despatched Andrew a letter Thursday requesting a proper interview looking for details about the disgraced financier’s co-conspirators and enablers.
“Properly-documented allegations towards you, alongside together with your long-standing friendship with Mr. Epstein, point out that you could be possess information of his actions related to our investigation,” the letter stated.
The letter asks for a response by Nov. 20 however doesn’t require Andrew’s cooperation.
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