# Buckingham Palace says King Charles has initiated a formal process to strip his brother Andrew of his royal titles and evict him from the royal estate in Windsor. The 65-year-old has faced continued criticism about his former friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. This criticism intensified after the release of a posthumous memoir by Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Andrew had sexually assaulted her as a teenager. She died in April. Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Prince Andrew is to lose his ‘prince’ title and leave his Windsor mansion