ICYMI: Trump says royals suffered ‘terrible thing’ with pressure over Epstein scandal
US president Donald Trump on Sunday said he “feel[s] badly” for the royal family after King Charles stripped his brother Andrew of his title as prince amid mounting pressure over the latter’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after he was asked about Andrew’s situation.
“That’s been a tragic situation and it’s too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family.”
Buckingham Palace on Thursday announced that Charles had stripped Andrew, 65, of his title of prince and forced him out of his Windsor home, seeking to distance the royal family from him over his links to the Epstein scandal.
It was one of the most dramatic moves against a member of the royal family in modern British history.
Trump, a one-time friend of Epstein’s, has faced his own woes related to the disgraced financier’s downfall, with Democrats and some Republicans demanding that his administration release government files related to the Epstein case.
While acknowledging he knew Epstein socially years ago, Trump has said he had a falling-out with the disgraced financier long before Epstein’s 2019 death in jail while awaiting trial on charges of sexually abusing multiple teenage girls. Hundreds of women have said Epstein abused them.
In September, Democrats in the US House of Representatives made public a birthday note that Trump purportedly wrote to Epstein more than 20 years ago.
The letter, whose authenticity the White House denies, includes the line, “May every day be another wonderful secret.”
Shweta Sharma5 November 2025 05:00
Photos of Andrew’s royal life before his fall from grace
From favourite son to tabloid fodder, Andrew was stripped of his remaining titles and evicted from his royal residence after weeks of pressure to act over his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, was no longer listed on the roll of the peerage, where he had previously appeared as Duke of York, another of his titles.
Andrew attending an event at the residence of the British Ambassador in New Delhi, India, March 10, 2010 (Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
Andrew, with his bride, Sarah, waves from their horse-drawn carriage as they leave Westminster Abbey following their marriage in London, July 23, 1986 (1986 AP)
In this Nov. 20, 1972 file photo, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are surround by their family in Buckingham Palace, in London, on the occasion of the royal couples silver wedding. From left in the picture are shown: Prince Charles, Prince Edward, the youngest child (aged 8), the Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Andrew (aged 12) and Princess Anne, (22). (AP Photo, File) (AP1972)
Andrew strides along the dock at Pensacola Naval Base in Pensacola, Florida on Feb. 23, 1980 as he prepares for shore leave (AP1980)
Shweta Sharma5 November 2025 04:00
Andrew biographer says ‘more damaging’ material to come
Andrew Lownie, the biographer who has spent years researching Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, said that “there’s lots more still to come”.
His book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York landed just before Andrew’s fall from grace.
Following King Charles’ decision to strip his brother of his royal titles, Lownie said: “I think there’s lots more still to come, lots more, and it will be even more damaging material.”
James Reynolds5 November 2025 03:01
Trump says it’s ‘terrible’ that Andrew lost royal titles over Epstein scandal
Donald Trump said that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being stripped of his titles is a “terrible thing” while speaking to reporters on board Air Force One.
“I mean, it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family,” Trump said.
“That’s been a tragic situation, and it’s too bad. I mean I feel badly for the family.” [sic]
James Reynolds5 November 2025 02:03
COMMENT: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor hasn’t reached rock bottom yet
After the King’s historic decision to evict his brother and strip his official titles, the former prince must contend not only with his straitened circumstances and the public shaming, but also with the fact that he has long deluded himself about always putting ‘duty first’, says Sean O’Grady:
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor hasn’t reached rock bottom yet
After the King’s historic decision to evict his brother and strip his official titles, the former prince must contend not only with his straitened circumstances and the public shaming, but also with the fact that he has long deluded himself about always putting ‘duty first’, says Sean O’Grady
James Reynolds5 November 2025 01:01
WATCH: “I was still a human being with feelings and emotion,” Virginia Giuffre told BBC in resurfaced interviewVirginia Giuffre speaks about Prince Andrew in resurfaced Panorama interview: ‘I was a toy’
James Reynolds5 November 2025 00:03
Andrew to be stripped of last military title
The Ministry of Defence is “working to remove” Andrew’s last military title, after the King stripped his brother of his peerages and the title of prince amid the continuing fallout of the Epstein scandal.
John Healey, the defence minister, said Andrew would be stripped of his honorary rank of vice-admiral, adding that ministers had been “guided by the decisions and judgments the King has made”.
James Reynolds4 November 2025 22:57
WATCH: Virginia Giuffre told BBC Maxwell ‘could be more abusive’ than Epstein’Ghislaine was more physically abusive than Epstein’: Virginia Giuffre says in resurfaced Panorama interview
James Reynolds4 November 2025 22:00
“I was still a human being,” Giuffre told BBC
“I was still a human being with feelings and emotion and sadness,” Virginia Giuffre told the BBC, during a segment on her alleged meetings with Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
“To know that this man had daughters, that he was still capable of abusing me. It’s … it just doesn’t make sense.”
The former prince has denied all wrongdoing.
James Reynolds4 November 2025 20:50
‘Ghislaine Maxwell was more physically abusive than Epstein’, Giuffre told the BBC
Virginia Giuffre told the BBC in an interview aired on tonight’s Panorama episode that Ghislaine Maxwell could be more abusive than Jeffrey Epstein.
“Ghislaine was more physically abusive in some aspects than Jeffrey Epstein even was,” she told the BBC in 2019.
“She almost took pleasure in the fact, knowing that you were highly uncomfortable and that you were feeling sick to your stomach and that you were going through pain.”
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 and jailed for 20 years.
James Reynolds4 November 2025 20:32