Royal Family Makes Major Move on Official Website to Distance from Prince Andrew After He Was Stripped of Titles
- - Royal Family Makes Major Move on Official Website to Distance from Prince Andrew After He Was Stripped of Titles
Stephanie PetitNovember 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Prince Andrew on Sept. 16, 2025 -
The royal family made a big change to their official website after the former Prince Andrew was stripped of his titles
Andrew's biography appears to have been quietly removed, but his royal title appears in another spot on the website
Buckingham Palace released the official announcement on Oct. 30, stating that King Charles has "initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours" from his brother
After the announcement that the former Prince Andrew was being stripped of his royal titles, the royal family has made a major change to their official website.
Buckingham Palace released the official announcement on Oct. 30, stating that King Charles has "initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours" from his brother. The former prince, 65, will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
As of Oct. 31, Andrew's biography remained on the royal family's website. However, his placement was moved below the joint page for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who stepped back from their roles as working members of the royal family in 2020.
But on Monday, Nov. 3, Andrew's biography page seems to have been quietly removed from the list of senior royals. His page no longer appears live, with a link leading to a page with the message, "The requested page could not be found."
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Prince Andrew's biography on Royal.UK
Andrew's defunct biography page on Royal.UK started with a short recap about his birth and family: "Prince Andrew was born at Buckingham Palace on 19 February 1960. He is the third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip and was christened Andrew Albert Christian Edward. On 23 July 1986 he married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. The couple, who divorced in 1996, have two children: Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, and four grandchildren: August and Ernest (sons of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank) and Sienna and Athena (daughters of Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi)."
It continued with sections about his service in the Royal Navy, his "role as a special representative for international trade and investment" and his work supporting Queen Elizabeth.
The website's line of succession has yet to be and still refers to Andrew as the Duke of York, one of the royal titles that was removed. Despite losing his titles and honors, Andrew still remains eighth in the line of succession to the throne behind Harry and Meghan's two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
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Line of succession
Andrew stepped back from his public royal role in 2019 following a BBC interview in which he discussed his relationship with Epstein. Queen Elizabeth later stripped her son of his military titles and patronages in January 2022, after a judge rejected his attempt to have Virginia Giuffre’s sexual assault lawsuit against him dismissed. He settled with Giuffre out of court for an undisclosed sum.
Criticism surrounding Andrew intensified in recent weeks after the posthumous memoir of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at 41. In the book, she wrote that Andrew “believed having sex with me was his birthright,” describing three occasions Epstein allegedly arranged for her to meet him beginning at age 17.
Andrew has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
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The former Prince Andrew and King Charles in September 2022
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A source who knows King Charles says of the monarch's decision, "He would have been really exasperated with it. Andrew had been given so many chances and opportunities to do the right thing, and he would be exasperated that he had to make a difficult decision rather than Andrew dealing with it. He would find it quite painful.”
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