KING REMOVES 'STYLE, TITLES AND HONOURS' FROM BROTHER

Former prince to be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and quits Royal Lodge

- By Emily Ferguson Royal Editor

THE King is stripping his disgraced brother Andrew of all royal titles including Prince and evicting him from Royal Lodge.

Andrew, 65, loses his "style, title and honours" and will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor with immediate effect, it was announced last night.

He will shortly move from Windsor to a private home on the Sandringham Estate.

Buckingham Palace aides announced King Charles had set the wheels in motion for historic changes which mean Andrew lives as an ordinary citizen. He was second in line to the throne until nephew William, now Prince of Wales, was born in 1982.

The 7pm statement declared: "These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him. Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse." It follows a raft of scandals embroiling Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson over their relationship with late US paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.