Today, King Charles officially revoked his brother Andrew’s title of prince.

In a rare move, the monarch also withdrew Andrew’s HRH status through a Letters Patent, effectively making his younger brother a commoner.

This development further deepens the woes of the former Duke of York, whose public image has been severely damaged by ties to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and Virginia Giuffre’s recent posthumous autobiography.

The specifics of the King’s decision have been documented by the Crown Office in The Gazette, the UK’s formal public record.

The announcement states: ‘THE KING has issued a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025, declaring that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer retain the style, title, or dignity of “Royal Highness” or the titular honor of “Prince”.’

This announcement follows just a week after Buckingham Palace confirmed that the 65-year-old would immediately cease to be recognized as a Prince and would vacate the 30-room Royal Lodge on the Windsor Castle estate.

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

Charles has stripped Andrew of his titles and home over the Epstein scandal

The Mail on Sunday revealed how Andrew told Epstein in an email ‘we are in this together’ a day after the infamous picture of the former prince with his alleged then-teenage sex victim Ms Giuffre was published.

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.’

Meanwhile, 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.

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.

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

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.

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.’

Ordinary: Andrew – seen driving his car through Windsor Great Park – will now be considered a regular member of the public 

Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Andrew’s former home. He will now be moving to a private residence on the monarch’s Sandringham estate

In one of the few positives for Andrew, he had been allowed to keep his operational service medals, including the one he won in the Falklands.

The disgraced royal served for 22 years in the Navy, including throughout the victorious campaign in the South Atlantic where he was the co-pilot of a Sea King helicopter.

He conducted anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, casualty evacuation and search and rescue missions.

Andrew also played the role of a decoy for Argentina’s Exocet missiles, flying over aircraft carriers to prompt anti-ship weapons.

Veterans of the war previously said it would be ‘morally indefensible’ to remove a medal earned through active service.

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 very keen to ‘protect’ his nieces. 

However, royal expert Christopher Wilson told the Daily Mail today that King Charles’s ‘soft-hearted’ approach to his nieces ‘may come back to bite him’ – and it may be up to Prince William to ‘finish the job’ when he becomes King later down the line.

As for Beatrice and Eugenie themselves, their princess titles will be ‘tarnished in the eyes of many’ due to their father and his links to Jeffrey Epstein, Mr Wilson claimed.

If opportunities dry up, the Princesses could be forced to accept more ‘low-grade offers’ like their mother, Sarah Ferguson, who, over the years has been accused of undertaking ‘dubious’ charity work and offering access to Prince Andrew for cash.

Mr Wilson told the Daily Mail: ‘The princesses use their titles to earn money – and if that starts to dry up as a result of their father’s disgrace, they may be tempted to follow their mother Fergie’s example of accepting more and more low-grade offers to use their face and name in order to rake in the cash.’

Both sisters have paid full-time jobs but do not receive cash from the Sovereign Grant as they’re not working royals. They also benefit from a trust fund set up by the Queen Mother for her great-great-grandchildren, and received money from their parents’ divorce in the 1990s.

Andrew 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

Beatrice is married to millionaire property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, while Eugenie’s husband, wine merchant Jack Brooksbank, is also wealthy in his own right.

Previously, the former Duke of York’s website said he ‘supports both of his daughters financially’, but now this source of income and any other monetary benefits that may come with their titles will be brought into question.

Mr Wilson added: ‘Dealing with ruthless businessmen who know how to exploit a royal title has been Fergie’s downfall, and it could be theirs too.

‘Neither woman has a husband with a job which can sustain them in the style to which they’ve long been accustomed – and they too may find it harder to maintain their status in the business world now that Andrew is no longer royal.’

Meanwhile, it has been reported that Sarah Ferguson is ‘blaming herself’ and may quit the UK following her former husband’s humiliation. 

The former Duchess is said to be ‘more on edge’ than Andrew and is hunkering down in Royal Lodge ‘surrounded by Amazon deliveries’ amid the couple’s dramatic fall from grace.

A source told the Daily Mail: ‘Sarah is going around blaming herself. She keeps repeating ‘what if I hadn’t done this, or hadn’t done that’.’

Another source suggested that Fergie is now considering leaving the country.

They said: ‘She’s always rather lived on the hoof and aside from her children and grandchildren, there’s not a lot to keep her here.

‘Put it this way, the invitations have dried up overnight.’

For years, Sarah has been a staunch ally of her husband, supporting him in the aftermath of his disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019.