King Charles III's historic decision against his brother Andrew, a scandal-ridden Windsor outcast, starting with his ties to the late American fixer and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is a ban. The sovereign has ordered the "formal" process to remove Andrew's royal titles, including that of prince, following his previously announced renunciation of that of Duke of York. The mechanism by which the titles and honors will be removed will be handled by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, in his capacity as Lord Chancellor. Therefore, the former prince will be known only as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
The Buckingham Palace statement, which reads like an edict, also established that Andrew, already long excluded from all official duties of the dynasty and stripped of his military rank, will leave the Royal Lodge residence, where he lives shared with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, at the center of controversy in the United Kingdom following revelations that Charles's brother had failed to pay rent for over twenty years.
Andrew will move to "alternative private accommodation", which according to the media is located on the royal estate of Sandringham, in Norfolk, away from the eyes of the Court, after becoming an embarrassing and unwanted presence for the monarchy , which Queen Elizabeth's third son has helped to undermine with his scandals, including those involving contacts with people of dubious reputation, such as an alleged Chinese spy.
"These censorships are deemed necessary, despite his continued denial of the allegations against him," the Palace statement continues, explicitly referring to the measures taken against Andrew despite his continued denial of what has emerged about him in the Epstein scandal . Just today, the anti-monarchical group led by Graham Smith, Republic, announced a legal initiative to bring the former prince to court on charges of sexual abuse, corruption, and misconduct in public office. Moreover, the wave of revelations that had emerged in recent weeks, particularly regarding the sexual abuse allegations made against him by Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide last April, who had agreed to a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement that spared the Windsor scoundrel a civil compensation lawsuit in the US, had become unsustainable.
These accusations have returned with force following the publication of the posthumous memoirs of Andrew's main accuser, the book "Nobody's Girl," containing details of encounters with the woman when she was 17. The Palace statement also states that King Charles and Queen Camilla express their "maximum solidarity" with "the victims and survivors of all forms of abuse." All of this marks the final nail in the coffin of a cadet prince who, after the youthful "glories" of the military campaign in the Falklands against Argentina, brought shame and dishonor to the Windsors.
(Unioneonline)