King Charles Initiates Prince Andrew Title Removal

Buckingham Palace announced King Charles has initiated a formal process to remove Prince Andrew’s royal style, titles and honours, meaning he will no longer be His Royal Highness and will be styled Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Andrew has been served notice to surrender his long-standing 75‑year peppercorn lease at Royal Lodge and will move to privately funded accommodation on the Sandringham estate. Reports say the lease includes an early-surrender payment of about £558,000 but that extensive disrepair at Royal Lodge could see repair costs eat into or exceed that sum. Royal commentators say the Queen and other senior royals, and possibly the Prince of Wales, pushed for a decisive response to protect the institution. The action follows renewed public fury over Andrew’s links to Jeffrey Epstein and allegations detailed in Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir; her family called the stripping of his titles a "victory."