Andrew is erased from Royal Family website: Disgraced royal’s life as ‘ordinary member of the public’ begins after he was stripped of his Prince title

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been deleted entirely from the official Royal Family website just a day after he was sensationally stripped of his Prince title and booted out of the Royal Lodge. 

Today the disgraced ex-duke woke up a commoner for the first time, but his humiliation hasn’t ended there – as he is seemingly being almost completely erased from royal life.  

Yesterday, in a bombshell statement, Buckingham Palace confirmed the 65-year-old would no longer be a Prince with immediate effect – and would also be leaving the 30-bed Royal Lodge nestled on the grounds of Windsor Castle.

The Palace coldly announced the ‘censures [were] deemed necessary’ amid the growing controversy surrounding his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Andrew lied about cutting ties with. 

It comes after the Mail on Sunday revealed emails from Andrew where he told Epstein ‘we are in this together’ just a day after the infamous picture of the former prince and his alleged then-teenage sex victim, Virginia Giuffre was released.

In the wake of the fallout, Ms Giuffre’s family said she was ‘an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family’, who had ‘brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage.’

And new emails from unsealed court documents from a legal battle between the US Virgin Islands and JP Morgan show the former prince told Epstein it would be ‘good to catch up in person’ months after the child sex offender was released.

Andrew has continued to deny the allegations made against him as well as ever meeting Ms Giuffre, who made damning revelations about Mr Mountbatten Windsor in a posthumous memoir. She took her own life earlier this year, aged 41. 

In 2022, Andrew settled a US civil case she lodged for a reported £12million, reportedly receiving money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, to help meet the costs. The settlement came with no admission of liability

Now the shunned ex-duke has been erased from the Royal website entirely, with no mention of him on ‘The Royal Family’ page or when the term ‘Andrew’ is entered into the search bar. 

As revelations continue about Andrew’s downfall, it has emerged – 

However, the website is yet to remove previous features relating to his old engagements.  

It comes as trade minister Sir Chris Bryant described now as ‘an ordinary member of the public’ while suggesting he should go to the US to answer questions about Epstein’s crimes.

As of last night, it was understood the King is in the process of sending royal warrants to the Lord Chancellor to remove his brother’s titles and honours, to which Andrew has not objected. 

His Majesty’s younger brother will now be banished to a private property on the monarch’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, but no further details have been shared. It is understood Prince William and the Royal Family fully support the King’s decision.

Annie Farmer, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s earliest accusers who testified in the trial that resulted in the conviction of his long-time aide Ghislaine Maxwell, told the BBC: ‘Virginia did what most thought impossible. She showed the world that even the most powerful predators can be held accountable.’

Meanwhile Andrew’s daughters Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, will retain their titles as Her Royal Highnesses with it previously reported that Charles was was very keen to ‘protect’ his nieces. 

Elsewhere, in a brutal remark sources revealed former Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson who lived with Andrew in the Royal Lodge for over two decades, ‘will make her own arrangements’ when it comes to her future.

Last week, the row over the Royal Lodge continued to grow amid damning revelations in a posthumous memoir from Andrew’s sex abuse accuser Giuffre, who took her own life this year, aged 41.

Ms Giuffre’s explosive book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice was released in this month, with the manuscript having been completed before she died. 

Inside, she detailed her years spent as a sex slave to Epstein and his British madam Ghislaine Maxwell, amid claims she had been trafficked to the ex-duke three times, and whom she called ‘entitled’ and viewed sex as his ‘birthright’.

Within the 400-page autobiography, she also alleged the ex-duke said ‘thank you’ in a ‘clipped British accent’ after their alleged first encounter when she was 17.

She also recalled how Maxwell praised her following the encounter, saying, ‘You did well, the prince had fun’. 

In the wake of the Giuffre scandal, Andrew is facing a private prosecution over allegations of sexual assault, corruption and misconduct in public office.

Yesterday, anti–monarchy campaign group Republic said it has instructed lawyers to investigate the prince and, if appropriate, press ahead with legal proceedings.

The Daily Mail understands the allegations it is focusing on relate to accusations he sexually assaulted Giuffre, that he asked a royal protection officer to look into her background and impropriety when he served as an official UK trade envoy.

But anti-monarchy group Republic said it is mounting its own bid to take him to court because the legal and political response to the claims has been ‘weak and inadequate’ to date.

It said it has made a ‘powerful, principled argument for justice to be done for the victims of sexual abuse, and for those who corrupt public office to be held accountable’.

‘If not us, then who?’ asked Graham Smith, the group’s CEO.

‘It’s a devastating indictment on the UK’s criminal justice system, police and politicians – not to mention the king and heir – that we must resort to a private prosecution.

‘It should be a cause for concern that so many people believe – rightly in my view – that the royals are not treated equally in law. Equality in law is a basic tenet of democracy.

‘I firmly believe there is strong enough evidence to justify a serious investigation. The authorities and politicians appear to want to look the other way, while minimising the accusations made against Andrew.

‘The truth must prevail and justice must be seen to be done.’

Last night the group tweeted that Andrew’s punishment was ‘nowhere near enough’, adding: ‘He’s lost a bunch of pointless titles and been relocated to another mansion. Dodging any actual punishment, as always.

‘He will never be an ‘ordinary person’ – ordinary people don’t get away with being accused of sexual abuse.’

A private prosecution brought by Republic would not involve a statutory prosecutor such as Crown Prosecution Service, which brings cases on behalf of the Crown.

They are commonly brought by organisations such as the RSPCA, but can be brought by private individuals.

In some cases, a party wishing to bring a private prosecution may have to seek the consent of the Government’s top legal adviser the Attorney General, or the Director of Public Prosecutions, who is the head of the CPS.

The CPS also has the right to take on a private prosecution – and even to bring it to an end if it considers the prosecution to be brought maliciously.

Yesterday royal historian and author Andrew Lownie said he believed the recent fallout doesn’t mark ‘the end’ of controversy for the shunned royal, now formally known as Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

‘I don’t think it’s the end of it. I think there are many more disclosures to come, but at least they’re taking some decisive action. So, I don’t think it’s all over for him,’ he told The Mirror.

When queried if he believed a police probe into Andrew was more likely following yesterday’s announcement, he remarked that the ex-duke was being ‘throw[n] under the bus’.

‘Yes, I’ve been saying for some time they’re [the Royal family] going to throw Andrew under the bus to save themselves and this is the first indication of that,’ he added

‘This should have been done years ago. I think it’s been Virginia Giuffre’s book that kind of made the Palace realise that there is a big problem here.’

It is understood earlier this month the Metropolitan Police was ‘actively’ looking into the claims Andrew had asked his personal protection officer to investigate Ms Giuffre, and that he was interviewed by detectives at home last week. 

A bombshell email published by the Mail on Sunday earlier this month also revealed how Andrew asked his taxpayer–funded protection officer to dig into her past, two months after the infamous photo of him with Giuffre and Maxwell came to light.

In an extraordinary message to Ed Perkins, Queen Elizabeth’s deputy press secretary, he wrote: ‘It would also seem she has a criminal record in the States. I have given her DoB [date of birth] and social security number for investigation with XXX, the on duty ppo [personal protection officer].’

It comes as e-mails from Andrew to Epstein emerged, where the former duke said he was ‘concerned’ about the impact this newspaper’s revelations would have on his friend after the infamous picture of the royal with Ms Giuffre was released.

He reassured the vile billionaire they would ‘rise above’ press scrutiny.

The correspondence was sent to Epstein 12 weeks after Andrew had supposedly ceased all contact with the convicted sex offender.

The leaked email provides definitive proof the Prince lied in his car-crash interview with BBC’s Newsnight when he claimed he ‘never had any contact’ with the disgraced financier after the pair were famously pictured walking together in New York’s Central Park in December 2010.

Democratic Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, who has previously called for Prince Andrew to testify before a US Congressional committee about his links to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to ‘clear his name’, last night again urged Andrew to give evidence.

In a statement, he said: ‘It’s clear that Prince Andrew has information about Epstein’s crimes and he must do more than just give up titles or hide from the public spotlight.

‘He owes it to the victims to share everything he knows about Epstein’s criminal operation and come before the Oversight Committee.

‘Regardless, we will continue to pursue the files and all the evidence, no matter how rich and powerful the perpetrators involved.’

The series of scandalous emails piled on the pressure for the Royal Family to sever ties with the ex-Yorks, with internal talks beginning after Prince William was left ‘seething’ by his uncle’s behaviour at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral last month

Andrew was pictured sidling up to the Prince and Princess of Wales, which the heir to the throne saw as him being distracted from the ceremony.

No 10 has also reportedly been pressuring the royals to deal with the scandal, which has run on for years and saw Andrew step back from public life in 2019.

The intervention from Downing Street came after the former prince was entangled in the ongoing Chinese spying row.

And only further embarrassment descended after it was revealed Andrew met with the ‘spymaster’ at the heart of the collapsed China spy case at least three times.

The under-fire royal, already mired in controversy over his friendship with another alleged Beijing spy, forged links with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mandarin Cai Qi, with the pair posing as they celebrated ‘jointly building a golden era in China-UK relations’.

Prosecutors now believe Cai was presiding over a massive intelligence-gathering operation to steal British secrets, overseeing the alleged activities of parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and China-based English teacher Christopher Berry.

Both men have denied any wrongdoing and the case against them collapsed on the eve of trial last month after the Government refused to label China an ‘enemy’.

After, Andrew and his ex-wife agreed to relinquish their titles, with Buckingham Palace releasing a statement on the Prince’s behalf.