Prince Andrew Gives Up Royal Title Over Epstein Connection

Prince Andrew should’ve did this a lot sooner.

After having a discussion with King Charles, Prince Andrew has announced he will stop using his royal title.

Andrew’s decision comes after new reports have resurfaced the disgraced prince’s prior friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

NBC News provided further context on Andrew’s decision to relinquish his titles:

Britain’s Prince Andrew will stop using his Duke of York title after facing fresh questions over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Andrew, King Charles III’s younger brother, said in a statement issued via Buckingham Palace that he would “no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.”

The decision was taken “in discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family,” he said, after concluding that “the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.

“As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” Andrew said.

His former wife, Sarah Ferguson, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York.

Andrew stepped back from public duties in 2019 and returned his military affiliations and later royal patronages in January 2022, after his lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse.

He later paid a substantial sum to Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17. Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegation. Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

BREAKING: Prince Andrew has surrendered all his royal titles, including his title as Duke of York. pic.twitter.com/cJu3cU0pkX

— The General (@GeneralMCNews) October 17, 2025

Andrew’s decision comes after the U.K. Ambassador to the U.S. was removed from his position for his prior friendship with Epstein, per NPR:

Days before President Trump arrives in the United Kingdom for a state visit, the U.K. has fired its ambassador to Washington over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

ADVERTISEMENT

In 2008, before becoming ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson — a former Cabinet minister and European Union trade commissioner from the center-left Labour Party — wrote Epstein an email saying, “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.”

Anouska De Georgiou speaks during a press conference and rally in support of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Epstein survivors join with lawmakers in calling for full release of government files

In another, he wrote: “Your friends stay with you and love you.”

Mandelson’s emails, published Wednesday by The Sun newspaper, were sent after Epstein was indicted by a grand jury in 2006. The New York financier pleaded guilty two years later to soliciting sex with a minor.

On Thursday, U.K. Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty told Parliament that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was withdrawing Mandelson as ambassador — effective immediately.

First the British Ambassador lost his job and now the Prince lost his title. Don’t tell us there’s nothing in the Epstein files. The truth is coming out and we will not give up. Repost this and tag @SpeakerJohnson if you want him to quit delaying the vote.https://t.co/PxBaYrr9NF pic.twitter.com/xftMGaJtkV

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) October 17, 2025

Your thought?