Andrew is stripped of his Prince title and his home: King’s shamed brother will be Mr Mountbatten Windsor and has his lease on Royal Lodge revoked – monarch says ‘these censures are deemed necessary’ amid Epstein scandal

It has been confirmed that Andrew will no longer be recognized as a prince and will leave the Royal Lodge.

In a bombshell statement published this evening, Buckingham Palace said he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, effective immediately.

‘His Royal Highness has today begun a formal process to remove Prince Andrew’s Order, Titles and Honors,’ the Palace said.

‘Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. To date, his lease at Royal Lodge has provided him with legal protection to continue his residence.

‘Formal notice has been given to abandon the lease and he will be moving to alternative private accommodation.

‘These censorships are deemed necessary even though he continues to deny the allegations against him.

‘Her Majesty wishes to make it clear that her thoughts and utmost sympathies are with the victims and survivors of all forms of abuse and remain with them.’

King III. Charles is understood to be in the process of sending royal orders to the Lord Chancellor to ensure that the titles of Duke of York, Prince and ‘His Royal Highness’ are stripped from Andrew. It was stated that his brother did not object.

Although Andrew has been stripped of all his remaining titles, his daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will retain their titles.

Amid the row, Charles is said to be very keen to ‘protect’ Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, who remain as Her Royal Highnesses as grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth.

Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Andrew’s former home

King Charles III during his visit to the Australian High Commission in London on 16 October

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew attend Royal Ascot in 2019

“He wouldn’t want to sign anything that would affect them,” a source previously told the Daily Mail.

Amid the ongoing Epstein sexual abuse scandal, it has been revealed that an ongoing residency at the Royal Lodge has been dragged on since the royal was stripped of his titles earlier this month.

However, it is understood that Andrew has been given permission to surrender the lease as of today and will leave the property as soon as possible.

The king’s younger brother will be moving into a property on the Sandringham estate, but details of the move are unknown.

Sources told the Mail that the move was entirely up to the King and his advisors, without pressure from the government or other family members such as Prince William.

‘The process has been going on for some time but there was a need to get it right in the face of some very big challenges,’ a source said. Prince Andrew was not notified of his move. It was his lease, so it was up to the former Duke of York to report it himself, claiming he wasn’t fighting the process.

Andrew has lived with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson at the Grade II-listed mansion in the grounds of Windsor Castle for more than two decades, despite their divorce in 1996.

This is the story of the disgraced former duke, King George III. It comes a week after Charles gave up his titles after threatening to officially strip them if he ‘didn’t see sense’.

As The Daily Mail previously revealed, Her Majesty made clear that she would not hesitate to ‘take further action’ if her younger brother continued to cling to his dukedom and other honors, after it was revealed that he lied about cutting ties with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Despite the tsunami of mounting evidence against him, the 65-year-old is understood to be still trying to dig in with a “staggering lack of remorse” in a situation the King described as “intolerable”, sources have previously said.

Last week, the controversy surrounding the Royal Lodge where Andrew resided continued to grow, with damning new revelations contained in the posthumously published memoirs of Andrew’s sexual abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life this year at the age of 41.

Nobody’s Daughter: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for publication in October, and the manuscript will be completed before her death.

The explosive book revolves around her years as the sex slave of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and British madam Ghislaine Maxwell.

Excerpts published by The Guardian show Ms Giuffre, who said she was trafficked three times by Epstein to have sex with Andrew, felt the former Duke was ‘entitled’ and thought sex was her ‘birthright’.

In the midst of the debate, His Majesty King Henry III. Charles was keen to ‘protect’ Andrew’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who are still their Royal Highnesses.

Prince Andrew was photographed horseback riding at Windsor Manor on September 27 this year; He was last seen cycling in public.

The 400-page autobiography also claims the former Duke said “thank you” in a “shortened British accent” after they first met when she was 17.

He also remembers how Ghislaine Maxwell showered him with praise after the encounter: ‘Good job, the Prince enjoyed himself.’

Prince Andrew denied having sex with Ms. Giuffre, but paid millions in an out-of-court settlement in February 2022.

The Royal Family had been prepared for further scandals the book might cause, knowing it would be published this month.

But a turning point of sorts came when scandalous emails from Andrew to Epstein were revealed to the Mail on Sunday at a world-exclusive event last week, sparking further fears.

In the shocking message, the Prince told the pedophile ‘we are in this together’, a day after the MoS published the infamous photo of the Prince with his then-alleged teenage sex victim, Miss Giuffre.

He said he was ‘concerned’ about the impact this newspaper’s revelations would have on his friend, but assured the despicable billionaire they would ‘rise above’ press scrutiny.

The letter was sent to Epstein 12 weeks after Andrew supposedly cut off all contact with the convicted sex offender.

The leaked email provides conclusive evidence that the Prince lied in his car crash interview with BBC Newsnight when he claimed he had “no contact” with Epstein after the pair were photographed walking together in New York’s Central Park in December 2010.

Anti-monarchy group Republic said it plans to investigate claims the former Duke of York sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre (pictured)

Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in a photo reportedly taken in 2001, when Giuffre was 17

The revelation comes just weeks after the MoS revealed the former Duchess of York had written an impassioned message to Epstein calling him her “best friend”, despite telling reporters she would never have anything to do with him again.

In his letter to Epstein on 28 February 2011 – the day after the MoS published the now infamous photograph of him with young Virginia Giuffre that led to his downfall – Andrew said: ‘I’m worried about you too! Don’t worry about me!

‘It looks like we’re in this together and we’ll just have to get through it.

‘Otherwise stay in close contact and we’ll play some more soon!!!!’

Andrew signed: ‘A, HRH The Duke of York, KG’.

KG is a reference to ‘Knight of the Garter’, a prestigious position the Duke had held since 2006 and held until it was abolished on Friday.

The hugely embarrassing email has piled further pressure on the Royal Family to sever all ties with the disgraced former Yorkers and raised new questions about their future at the Royal Lodge.

Internal discussions on the issue began weeks ago, after Prince William was left “seething” over his uncle’s behavior at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral last month.

Andrew was pictured pulling up next to the Prince and Princess of Wales; The heir to the throne saw this as distracting him from the ceremony.

No 10 has also reportedly been pressuring the royal family to deal with the scandal, which has been going on for years and led to Andrew stepping back from public life in 2019.

The intervention from Downing Street comes after the Prince became embroiled in the ongoing espionage row in China.

Andrew is preparing to leave his Royal Lodge home (pictured) with his ex-wife, former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson. He is said to be responsible for making his own arrangements

He was suspected of receiving sensitive information after meeting senior official Cai Qi in Beijing at least three times in 2018 and 2019.

After Andrew and his ex-wife agreed to give up their titles, Buckingham Palace released a statement on behalf of the Prince.

It marked the first time he had spoken out on his behalf since his car crash Newsnight interview in 2019.

The statement said: ‘In discussions with the King and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded that the ongoing allegations against me are a distraction from the work of Her Majesty and the Royal Family.

‘As always, I decided to put my duty to my family and my country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stay away from public life.

‘With His Majesty’s approval, we think that I should now go one step further.

‘Therefore I will no longer use my title or the honors bestowed upon me. As I said before, I strongly deny the accusations against me.’

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