{"id":2126404,"date":"2025-10-31T06:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2126404"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:35:06","slug":"king-charles-strips-brother-andrew-of-titles-and-his-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-strips-brother-andrew-of-titles-and-his-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles strips brother Andrew of titles and his mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-testid=\"ContextWidget\" class=\"context-widget-module__container__b9mKr context-widget-module__with-scroll__CmEdD article-body-module__context_widget__sq1EI\">\n<div class=\"context-widget-module__content__lI1uo\">\n<ul data-testid=\"Summary\" class=\"summary-module__summary__QjADA\">\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Andrew stripped of all his royal titles<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">King&#8217;s brother forced out of his mansion<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Andrew faced growing scrutiny over ties to Epstein<\/li>\n<li data-testid=\"Body\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf summary-module__point__UgXPz\">Charles made decision to protect monarchy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain&#8217;s King Charles has stripped his younger brother Andrew of his title of prince and forced him out of his Windsor home, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, seeking to distance the royals from him over his links to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-1\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\">Andrew, 65, the younger brother of Charles and second son of the late Queen Elizabeth, has come under <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/britains-prince-andrew-sex-scandal-he-cannot-shrug-off-2025-10-21\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\">mounting pressure<\/a> in recent years over his behaviour and his ties to the late sex offender Epstein. Earlier this month he was forced to stop using his title of <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/britains-prince-andrew-gives-up-title-duke-york-2025-10-17\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\">Duke of York<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p data-testid=\"promo-box\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__promo-box__hVl8h\"> <!-- -->Sign up<!-- --> <!-- --> <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/king-charles-strips-brother-andrew-titles-his-home-2025-10-30\/undefined?location=article-paragraph&amp;redirectUrl=%2Fworld%2Fuk%2Fking-charles-strips-brother-andrew-titles-his-home-2025-10-30%2F\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles has now escalated his actions against Andrew by stripping him of all his titles, leaving him to be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.<\/p>\n<p>The Buckingham Palace statement said a formal notice had now been served on Andrew to surrender the lease of his Royal Lodge mansion on the Windsor Estate, west of London, and he will move to alternative private accommodation on the Sandringham estate in eastern England.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the king, who is still undergoing regular treatment for cancer, marks one of the most dramatic moves against a member of the royal family in modern British history.<\/p>\n<h2 data-testid=\"Heading\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__medium__2Rl30 text-module__heading_6__u1KdJ heading-module__base__p-zaD heading-module__heading_6__-zrtS article-body-module__heading__KTJKz\">PALACE SAYS THOUGHTS ARE WITH VICTIMS OF ABUSE<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,&#8221; the palace said. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was once regarded as a dashing naval officer and served in the military during the Falklands War with Argentina in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>But he was forced to step down from a roving UK trade ambassador role in 2011, before quitting all royal duties in 2019 and then was stripped of his military links and royal patronages in 2022 amid allegations of sexual misconduct that he has always denied.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-8\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\">That year, he settled a lawsuit brought by <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/virginia-giuffre-memoir-goes-sale-heaping-fresh-scrutiny-prince-andrew-2025-10-21\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\">Virginia Giuffre<\/a>, who died in April, which accused him of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. 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The source said the decision was taken by Charles but that the monarch had the support of the wider family, including heir-to-the-throne Prince William.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to force Andrew to move away from Windsor was also significant after newspapers reported he had not paid rent on his 30-room mansion for two decades, after initially paying for renovations.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-14\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\">In a rare political intervention into the workings of the royal family, a British parliamentary committee had on Wednesday <a target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"Link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/uk-lawmakers-question-prince-andrews-use-windsor-mansion-2025-10-29\/\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC\">questioned whether Andrew<\/a> should still be living in the house.<\/div>\n<p>Polls show the royal family has been losing the support of younger generations for years. 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