03/25/2026
It was a royal shake-up a decade in the making: In late October, King Charles III publicly stripped his younger brother, Andrew, of his titles, honors and home over his ties to convicted child s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein. After this fall from grace, Queen Elizabeth II’s scandal-ridden second son will simply be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
A cloud of accusations about Andrew has hung over the royal family for years, but as more details have come to light—most recently in Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, which published on Oct. 21—the king was prompted into action. When announcing the change, Charles said the move was “necessary, notwithstanding the fact that [Andrew] continues to deny the allegations against him,” a reference to Giuffre’s repeated allegations that Andrew s*xually abused her as a teenager. As of Nov. 3, mentions of the disgraced prince have been scrubbed from the royal family’s official site, with the king’s Oct. 30 announcement the only trace.
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