Overview
- Buckingham Palace said it has initiated the formal process to remove Andrew’s style, titles and honours, that he will be known publicly as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and that he will leave Royal Lodge for private accommodation while he continues to deny the allegations.
- Unsealed court filings from the US Virgin Islands’ case against JPMorgan include an April 15, 2010 email in which Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein it would be “good to catch up in person,” months before they were photographed together in New York.
- The palace statement conveyed the King and Queen’s sympathies for victims and survivors of abuse, and media reports say Andrew is expected to relocate to a private residence on the Sandringham estate with claims of a privately funded relocation payment.
- The Metropolitan Police confirmed it is reviewing reports related to Andrew’s former protection officer and Virginia Giuffre, and UK politicians are urging scrutiny of his Royal Lodge lease and proposing legislation to remove him from the line of succession.
- In the US, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are pressing for release of Justice Department files on Epstein, with Khanna saying “justice is coming to Andrew” and promoting a discharge petition intended to force a House vote on disclosure.