Jeffrey Epstein haunts Buckingham Palace as King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles, evicts him from royal residence

King Charles III is stripping his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicting him from his royal residence, Buckingham Palace said. In a statement, the palace said Andrew will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and not as a prince. The move follows revelations about Andrew’s relationship with convicted offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The statement said a formal notice had now been served on Andrew to surrender the lease of his mansion called Royal Lodge, and he will move to alternative private accommodation.

A steady stream of negative headlines about Andrew and Epstein in the past two weeks led the prince to renounce his titles, including Duke of York, as the monarchy tried to distance itself from decades of tawdry headlines about Andrew’s suspicious business deals, inappropriate behavior and controversial friendships.


King Charles III, who has skirted the scandal, nearly had to confront it face-to-face when a heckler hollered at him outside Lichfield Cathedral.

The man was shouted down by others and eventually pulled from sight, but not before questioning how long he had known about his brother and Epstein and then asked: “Have you asked the police to cover up for Andrew?”

That news was followed by publication of a posthumous memoir by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleged she had sex with Andrew when she was 17. “Nobody’s Girl” detailed three alleged sexual encounters with Andrew, who she said acted as if he believed “having sex with me was his birthright.”

65-year-old Andrew has long denied Giuffre’s claims, but stepped down from royal duties after a disastrous November 2019 BBC interview in which he attempted to rebut her allegations. Andrew paid millions in an out-of-court settlement in 2022 after Giuffre filed a civil suit against him in New York. Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

Andrew has occupied Royal Lodge for two decades. He signed a 75-year lease in 2003 with the Crown Estate, a portfolio of properties that is nominally owned, but not controlled, by the monarch.

He invested a required 7.5 million pounds ($9.9 million) to refurbish the home and now resides there for the annual sum of a peppercorn, a symbolic figure often used to satisfy the legal requirement of real estate transactions.

With Andrew no longer a working member of the royal family, though, people have begun to ask how he can afford the upkeep with no known source of income beyond a modest pension from his 22-year Royal Navy career.

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