Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, pictured in April 2023, has not been asked to spend Christmas with the rest of the royal family this year
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He has suffered a spectacular fall from grace over the last few years, and now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has suffered a fresh blow: allegedly, he has not been invited to spend Christmas with the rest of the royal family at Sandringham later this month. The former Prince and Duke of York was stripped of all his royal titles and honours by King Charles in October, and his older brother has made it clear that he wants to put as much distance between himself and the disgraced Andrew as possible.
King Charles made the decision to remove his brother’s titles and honours and evict him from his Windsor residence, Royal Lodge, following mounting public pressure to take action against Andrew, due to his ties to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. While Andrew has denied all of the allegations laid against him, he agreed to stop using his Duke of York title in early October, and was hit with the further demotions later that month.
The former Prince (pictured in September 2025) has been stripped of his titles and honours thanks to his ties to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein
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A notice from the Palace stated that Andrew was to be ousted from his residence and forced to give up his style, titles and honours, and acknowledged that ‘these censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him’. The statement concluded with a personal message from the King and Queen: ‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’
The 65-year-old is now known by the double-barrelled surname of Mountbatten-Windsor that has been used by the royal family since 1960, when it was created by the late Queen Elizabeth – so that her descendants would share her husband’s family name, as well has her own. The styling comes from combining the House of Windsor with an Anglicised version of Battenberg, Prince Philip’s mother’s maiden name.