Overview
- Buckingham Palace said the King has initiated a formal process to remove Andrew’s style, titles and honours, and that he will be known publicly as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
- Formal notice has been served to surrender the Royal Lodge lease, with Andrew to move to alternative private accommodation on the Sandringham estate funded privately by the King.
- Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has pressed the Treasury and the Crown Estate for documents and justification of the 2003 lease’s value for money, setting a 28 November response deadline.
- The actions follow renewed scrutiny driven by Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir and related reporting; Andrew denies the allegations and previously settled her 2022 civil case without admitting liability.
- Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie retain their titles under existing Letters Patent, while Sarah Ferguson will leave Royal Lodge and make her own living arrangements.