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Disgraced royal and Jeffrey Epstein pal Prince Andrew will no longer be a prince and will have to move out of his Royal Lodge home, Buckingham Palace announced Thursday.

The late Queen’s son will have his title stripped and now be known as “Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” the Palace said in a statement provided to BBC News.

Andrew will also be forced to vacate his taxpayer-subsidized royal home of more than 20 years.


  Disgraced Prince Andrew is being stripped of his “prince” title, according to Buckingham Palace. Getty Images Disgraced Prince Andrew is being stripped of his “prince” title, according to Buckingham Palace. Getty Images

The decision was made by King Charles and was supported by heir Prince William, the Prince of Wales, according to sources. 

It comes amid renewed pressure on the royals in recent months, following fresh allegations that Andrew maintained ties with convicted pedophile Epstein years after he claimed to have severed communication.

While the statement doesn’t name Epstein or go into the allegations against Andrew, it did allude to his sex scandals.

“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,” the Palace statement reads.

previous statement issued by Andrew several weeks ago, where he announced he was giving up his Duke of York title and honors, made no mention of victims or survivors.


  Andrew is also being forced out of the Royal Lodge where he resides. TOLGA AKMEN/EPA/Shutterstock Andrew is also being forced out of the Royal Lodge where he resides. TOLGA AKMEN/EPA/Shutterstock

Andrew will move into a property on the Sandringham Estate, privately funded by King Charles, according to the Palace.

“Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence. Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation,” the statement reads.

“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” it continues.

Sarah Ferguson, Andrew’s ex-wife and the mother of his two children, will also move out of Royal Lodge, where she had been living despite the couple being divorced since 1996.

Ferguson had also come under scrutiny for her alleged close ties to Epstein, and was forced to step down from a children’s charity of which she was the patron earlier this year.

Andrew did not object to the King’s decision, and the British government also supports the move, BBC News reported.


  Andrew has been plagued by fresh scandals related to his links to the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. AP Andrew has been plagued by fresh scandals related to his links to the late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. AP

Andrew was first forced to step back from royal duties in 2019 after his disastrous interview on the BBC’s “Newsnight” program in which he struggled to answer questions about his alleged ties to Epstein.

During that interview, he insisted that he had severed all ties with the sex offender in December 2010, around the time he was pictured with the financier in Central Park.

But in January this year, leaked emails from February 2011 appeared to show the pair stayed in contact months later.

“Keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!” one of the emails allegedly sent by Andrew to Epstein read.

“It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it,” Andrew also reportedly wrote to Epstein following the leaking of a photo showing him with his arm around Epstein victim, Virginia Giuffre.Epstein’s ex-girlfriend and convicted sex trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell, was also in the photo.

Earlier this month, Giuffre’s posthumous memoir was published — six months after her death — with further disturbing details of her allegations against Andrew.

She claimed she was forced to have sex with the royal on three separate occasions when she was a teenager. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations.

Giuffre’s family cheered Andrew’s downfall in a Thursday statement and credited her with taking down the royal.

“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage,” the family said in a statement to The Post.

“We, her family, along with her survivor sisters, continue Virginia’s battle and will not rest until the same accountability applies to all of the abusers and abettors connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,” the statement signed by Sky and Amanda Roberts, and Danny and Lanette Wilson, said.

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