“The Andrew formerly known as Prince,” British tabloid The Sun announced on its front page on October 31. It was the cheekiest headline I have seen in a while.
Once a senior working royal with honorary military roles and public duties, Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles, was stripped of his patronages and barred from using “His Royal Highness” in 2022 after public outrage over his ties to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and a civil settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager.
Last month, following the posthumous publication of Giuffre’s memoir six months after her suicide, Charles moved to strip Andrew of his princely title entirely. Henceforth, he will be known simply as “Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor”.
