Following reports that King Charles III will personally fund his brother’s relocation from Royal Lodge, attention has turned to the symbolic weight of Prince Andrew’s next home. The 65-year-old Duke—now stripped of his “Prince” title—has been ordered to vacate his longtime Windsor residence amid renewed scrutiny over his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision follows disturbing revelations detailed in the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice. In the book, Giuffre recounts specific alleged sexual encounters with Andrew, claiming she was trafficked by Epstein while still a minor. Although she and Andrew reached an undisclosed out-of-court settlement in 2022, the memoir—published earlier this year before her suicide—reignited public outrage.

On Thursday, October 30, Buckingham Palace released a statement confirming that Andrew would no longer be addressed as “Prince” and had been served an eviction notice from Royal Lodge, where he and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson have lived since 2004.

“Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease, and he will move to alternative private accommodation,” the statement read. “These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.”

It has since been confirmed that King Charles will privately finance Andrew’s move to Sandringham Estate—one of several royal properties owned by the Crown.

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