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On October 30, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew would no longer be called as such, and would instead be referred to henceforth as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
In addition to losing his royal titles and privileges, Andrew is also moving out of his home, Royal Lodge, where he has lived for 22 years.
In a major step, the royal family has removed Andrew’s biography page from its website as of November 3.
The royal family’s attempts to distance itself from the man formerly known as Prince Andrew continues.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor—as he is now known following an October 30 decision by King Charles to strip his younger brother of all royal titles and privileges—no longer has a biography page on the royal family’s website as of November 3, according to an observation by People, which said the biography “appears to have been quietly removed.”
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Prince Andrew and brother King Charles on September 16, 2025
This is a major change. As of October 31—one day after the announcement was made from Buckingham Palace—Andrew’s biography was still there, though it had been moved below the joint biography page of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who resigned as working royals in 2020 and relocated to the United States.
As of today, though, Andrew’s biography page links to a page with the telling message, “The requested page could not be found.”
That said, though this change is significant, the royal family’s website’s official line of succession has yet to be updated as of Monday. It still refers to Andrew as the Duke of York, a title he announced he was surrendering on October 17. Andrew still remains eighth in the line of succession.
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Prince Andrew on September 16, 2025
“Andrew had been dragging his heels,” Queen Elizabeth’s former press secretary Ailsa Anderson told People as to why the announcement last Thursday took so long (at least in some people’s opinion). “They had to take constitutional advice and legal advice over the lease on Royal Lodge. They had to get all the dots on I’s and T’s crossed before they made this announcement.”
In addition to being stripped of all of his royal titles, Andrew has also been evicted from his 30-room mansion, Royal Lodge, on the Windsor estate. He will now relocate in due course to a property on the Sandringham estate, and it’s unlikely that his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson—who has lived with Andrew in Royal Lodge since 2008—will join him.
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Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson on September 16, 2025
“She is going to be moving out and into a separate home,” a source who knows Ferguson told People. “Contrary to reports, she has never asked for a property or any provision for herself. She will continue to forge an independent life.”
As for the former couple’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, though the women will keep their princess titles, the recent ousting of both of their parents from the royal fold will have a “devastating effect” on them, Anderson said.
“Even though they keep their titles, the ripple effect will have consequences for the rest of their lives,” she added.
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Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie on November 29, 2023
When it comes to recent developments surrounding Andrew, a source in palace circles told People, “There has been nothing like this.”
“He would have been really exasperated with it,” a source who knows King Charles said of the King’s decision. “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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King Charles on March 11, 2025
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Prince Andrew and Prince Charles in 2012
Of Andrew’s next chapter now that he is effectively banished from royal life, Anderson said, “It is unprecedented. He has been banished to Sandringham. He is only 65, and you have to wonder, what is he going to do?”
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