Andrew officially no longer a prince, as US seeks interview over Epstein
There was growing demand at the palace for the 65-year-old prince to be expelled from his home in the Royal Lodge amid new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed interest in allegations of sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, whose posthumous memoirs were published last month.
The King introduced Andrew to the late Queen Elizabeth II. He went further to punish Elizabeth for serious errors of judgment by stripping her of the title of prince, which she had held since birth as a child of a monarch.
Andrew is also being forced to move from Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle where he has lived for more than 20 years, to a more remote home on the king’s 8,100-hectare Sandringham Estate in eastern England, financed by his brother.
The king’s decision was welcomed by the family of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
She said she was caught up in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring in the early 2000s, when she was a teenager, and was exploited by Andrew and other influential men. Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019 in what investigators called a suicide.
