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#prince-andrew

King Charles has initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew, who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the palace said. It is understood the king had the support of the Prince of Wales in the decision and Andrew did not object to the process. The decision follows anxiety within the royal household about the reputational risk to the monarchy caused by continual headlines concerning Andrew's friendship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In this article King Charles III acted briskly - as briskly as a Windsor ever does - and rather ruthlessly in dealing with his embattled brother. The king declared he was stripping Andrew of his "prince" title and that he would soon be leaving his Windsor lodgings. The fine print - that Andrew supposedly had an ironclad lease on Royal Lodge or that as the son of Queen Elizabeth II he was born a prince - turned out to be pesky details.

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MPs could debate Prince Andrew's conduct, his 30-room mansion and the possibility of stripping him of his dukedom. The Government has so far refused to allocate time in the House of Commons for MPs to discuss Andrew's situation because the royal family wants Parliament to focus on important issues. But the issue could be raised on one of the days when ministers are not in control of the parliamentary timetable.

Will the Prime Minister support a select committee inquiry, so all those involved can be called for evidence, including the current occupant? The Prime Minister said: It's important in relation to all Crown properties that there is proper scrutiny, and I certainly support that. Asked if that meant Sir Keir was leaving the door open for an inquiry, a No 10 spokesman said: I'm not going to speculate on anything beyond what the Prime Minister has said.

On Friday evening, Buckingham Palace released a statement from Prince Andrew. I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first,' it read. I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.' It seemed that Prince Andrew was voluntarily giving up his titles such as the Duke of York, the Knight of the Garter, or calling himself the Earl of Inverness

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

He's still a prince, but that's about it. Prince Andrew announced Friday that he has given up all of his "titles and honours" after discussing it with his older brother King Charles of England and other members of the royal family. "In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family," Prince Andrew said in a statement.

The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump's impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned.

The royal family was always a disaster waiting to happen. Its creation as a marketable entity in the 1960s by the late Queen Elizabeth II was meant to modernise the monarchy for the 20th century. It worked, but only up to a point. Her son Prince Andrew has long been its biggest liability, this week in trouble yet again due to his alleged behaviour within that ghoulish circle, the friends of Jeffrey Epstein.