Prince William and Princess Kate fully support the King’s decision to strip Andrew of his Prince title and evict him from Royal Lodge.
In a bombshell statement released on Thursday night, Buckingham Palace said he will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
‘His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,’ the palace said.
‘Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.
‘Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.
‘These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’
Sources told the Mail that the move was entirely down to the King and his advisors, without pressure from the government or other family members, such as Prince William.
Prince William and Princess Kate fully support the King’s decision to strip Andrew of his Prince title and evict him from Royal Lodge
Sources told the Mail that the move was entirely down to the King and his advisors, without pressure from the government or other family members, such as Prince William
‘The process has been underway for some while but there was a need to get it right in the face of some very big challenges,’ a source said.
Notice was not served on Prince Andrew to move. It was his lease, so it was up to the former Duke of York to serve notice himself, suggesting that he is not fighting the process.
It is understood the King is sending Royal Warrants to the Lord Chancellor to remove the Dukedom of York from the Peerage Roll, and the Title of Prince and Style of ‘Royal Highness’ from Andrew.
The name title change, which will take immediate effect.
Andrew will now move onto a property on the private Sandringham estate and it is understood any future accommodation he lives will be privately funded by The King.
Princess Beatrice and Eugenie will retain their Royal titles despite their father Andrew no longer being a Prince.
They will keep their Honours in line with King George V’s Letters Patent of 1917, it is understood.
Amid the controversy Charles is said to be very keen to ‘protect’ nieces Princess Beatrice, 37, and Princess Eugenie, 35, who remain Her Royal Highnesses as granddaughters of Queen Elizabeth.
It comes a week after the disgraced former duke renounced his titles after King Charles III threatened to have them officially stripped unless he ‘saw sense’
Pictured: Royal Lodge. Andrew will now move onto a property on the private Sandringham estate and it is understood any future accommodation he lives will be privately funded by The King
‘He wouldn’t have wanted to sign off on anything that would impact them,’ a source told the Daily Mail.
The announcement comes a week after the disgraced former duke renounced his titles after King Charles III threatened to have them officially stripped unless he ‘saw sense’.
His Majesty, made it clear the would not hesitate to take ‘further action’ if his younger brother continued to cling on to his dukedom and other honours after it emerged he lied about cutting ties with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, The Daily Mail previously revealed.
And despite the tsunami of growing evidence mounting against him, the 65-year-old was understood to still be digging his heel is with a ‘startling lack of contrition’, in a situation the King deemed ‘intolerable’, sources previously said.
Last week, the row over Royal Lodge where Andrew had resided continued to grow amid damning new revelations in a posthumous memoir from Andrew’s sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life this year, aged 41.
Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice is scheduled for release in October, with the manuscript finished before she died.
The explosive book revolves around her years spent as a sex slave to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and his British madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
Extracts published by The Guardian show Ms Giuffre, who said she was trafficked by Epstein three times for sex with Andrew, calls the ex-Duke ‘entitled’ and viewing sex as his ‘birthright’.
The explosive book revolves around her years spent as a sex slave to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and his British madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
Extracts published by The Guardian show Ms Giuffre, who said she was trafficked by Epstein three times for sex with Andrew, calls the ex-Duke ‘entitled’ and viewing sex as his ‘birthright’.
Within the 400-page autobiography, she also claims the ex-Duke said ‘thank you’ in a ‘clipped British accent’ after their alleged first encounter when she was 17.
