Overview
- Buckingham Palace said a formal procedure is underway to strip Andrew of remaining titles and honours, with immediate changes to how he is addressed.
- He will be styled Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and has lost the use of HRH and titles including Duke of York, with his name removed from the Roll of the Peerage.
- Andrew must vacate the Royal Lodge at Windsor and relocate to a private residence on the Sandringham estate, with costs covered from the king’s private funds.
- The mechanism is reported to involve royal warrants to Lord Chancellor David Lammy; Andrew remains eighth in the line of succession, and any removal from it would require legislation and wider realm consent.
- The palace cited the necessity of the measures as Andrew denies allegations, while public reaction has been broadly supportive and victims’ representatives and campaigners urge further legal scrutiny.