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Using a ceremonial papers affixed with a royal seal, King Charles III has formally stripped his member Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of the rubric of Prince.
The disgraced royal has besides mislaid the designation “his royal highness” aft the King issued a Letters Patent, a centuries-old benignant of papers utilized by monarchs to bestow — and region — appointments oregon titles.
An announcement published connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025) successful The Gazette — the U.K.'s authoritative nationalist grounds — said “THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent nether the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to state that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall nary longer beryllium entitled to clasp and bask the style, rubric oregon property of Royal Highness' and the titular dignity of Prince.'”
The King besides formally removed the rubric Duke of York from his brother.
The King announced connected October 30 that helium was removing his brother's titles and evicting him from his royal residence implicit his narration with enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Demand had been increasing connected the palace to oust the 65-year-old prince from his Royal Lodge location implicit caller revelations astir his relationship with 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 adjacent further to punish Mountbatten Windsor for superior lapses of judgement by removing the rubric of Prince that helium has held since commencement arsenic a kid of a monarch, the precocious Queen Elizabeth II.
Andrew besides is being forced to determination from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion adjacent Windsor Castle wherever helium has lived for much than 20 years, into a much distant location funded by his member connected the King's 20,000-acre (8,100 hectare) Sandringham Estate successful eastbound England.
The King's determination was welcomed by the household of Giuffre, who died by termination successful April astatine the property of 41.
She said that successful the aboriginal 2000s, erstwhile she was a teenager, she was caught up successful Epstein's enactment trafficking ringing and exploited by Andrew and different influential men. Epstein was recovered dormant successful a New York City jailhouse compartment successful 2019 successful what investigators called a suicide.
Andrew denies Giuffre's allegations.
Democrats connected a U.S. legislature committee investigating Epstein's enactment trafficking sent Andrew a missive connected Thursday requesting a ceremonial interrogation seeking accusation astir the disgraced financier's co-conspirators and enablers.
“Well-documented allegations against you, on with your long-standing relationship with Mr. Epstein, bespeak that you whitethorn person cognition of his activities applicable to our investigation," the missive said.
The missive asks for a effect by November 20 but does not necessitate Andrew's cooperation.
