Overview
- Buckingham Palace said Andrew will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, with a formal process under way to remove his style, titles and honours, and formal notice served to surrender his Royal Lodge lease.
- The palace stated he will move to alternative private accommodation and expressed sympathies for abuse survivors, noting he continues to deny the allegations.
- Multiple outlets report he is expected to relocate to a property on the King’s Sandringham estate with costs privately covered by the King, while his ex‑wife Sarah Ferguson must arrange her own housing.
- Andrew did not object to the King’s action and the Prince of Wales backs the move, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie retain their titles under existing letters patent.
- Public records show a 75‑year Royal Lodge lease signed in 2003 with an initial £1m payment, about £7.5m in renovations and a peppercorn rent, as renewed reporting and a BBC investigation into Epstein’s presence at a 2006 event fuel police and parliamentary scrutiny.