The King has officially stripped his disgraced brother Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of both his HRH style and his prince title.
Charles formally made the changes, which were dramatically announced a week ago, by issuing a Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm which was published in The Gazette, the UK’s official public record, by the Crown Office.
The entry, published on Wednesday, read: “THE KING has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 3 November 2025 to declare that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor shall no longer be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of ‘Royal Highness’ and the titular dignity of ‘Prince’.”
Another entry confirmed the removal of Andrew from the Roll of Peerage as the Duke of York, as previously announced.
It read: “THE KING has been pleased by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual dated 30 October 2025 to direct His Secretary of State to cause the Duke of York to be removed from the Roll of the Peerage with immediate effect.”
Charles’s decision to banish Andrew from the monarchy and remove his birthright to be a prince, as well as his dukedom, followed growing controversy over his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew’s association with Epstein strained the royal family. Emails from 2011 reemerged in October showing Andrew in contact with Epstein months after he claimed their friendship had ended.
Pressure has also followed from the posthumous memoir of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who repeated allegations that, as a teenager, she was made to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions. He has strenuously denied the allegations.
In 2022, it was announced that Andrew would not use “His Royal Highness” in any official capacity. It came three years after Andrew said he would be stepping back from public life in the wake of his Newsnight interview, which addressed Ms Giuffre’s allegations.
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