Overview
- Buckingham Palace said the King has begun a formal process to remove Andrew’s style, titles and honours, and that he will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
- Formal notice has been served to surrender the Royal Lodge lease, with Andrew to move to private accommodation on the Sandringham estate, reportedly funded privately by the King.
- Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has written to the Treasury and the Crown Estate seeking explanations on whether the 2003 Royal Lodge lease represented value for money after reports of a minimal rent.
- The decision follows renewed public scrutiny stemming from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir and BBC reporting that Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein were hosted at Royal Lodge in 2006; Andrew continues to deny the allegations.
- Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will keep their titles, while Sarah Ferguson will also leave Royal Lodge and make her own living arrangements.