British King Charles III will strip his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evict him from the Royal Lodge residence, Buckingham Palace announced, according to LETA citing AP.
From now on, Andrew will be known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and will no longer be able to use the title of prince.
Following new information about Andrew's connections to American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew has already renounced the title of Duke of York this month. He also again denied allegations of wrongdoing.
Due to the Epstein scandal, Andrew stepped back from all royal duties in 2019 but retained his title as prince and other honorary titles.
Andrew became a burden to his brother Charles after an interview with the British broadcaster BBC in 2019, in which he defended his friendship with Epstein. The latter took his own life in a federal detention center in New York in August 2019, before facing trial. In this interview, Andrew also stated that he ceased contact with Epstein in 2010, after Epstein fell from grace due to allegations from Virginia Giuffre, who claimed that Epstein had used her as a sex slave.
In February 2022, Andrew reached a settlement in a civil lawsuit in the U.S., in which Giuffre alleged that Prince Andrew, at Epstein's urging, sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old. Shortly after this, the then-Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, stripped Andrew of all honorary military titles and patronages in 2022, effectively removing him from public life within the royal family.
Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations of sexual assault and insisted that he never met Giuffre, who took her own life on April 25 at her farm in Western Australia.
New details emerged this month in Giuffre's memoirs, where she wrote that Andrew behaved as if sex with her was his "birthright" as a prince.
