<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/royals" rel="" target="" title="royal"><span>royal</span></a><span> formerly known as </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/prince-andrew" rel="" target="" title="Prince Andrew"><span>Prince Andrew</span></a><span> has woken up as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, in what's set to be his final days at Royal Lodge.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-news-king-charles-iii-banishes-brother-to-buttress-the-house-of-windsors-foundations/1044252f-a7d1-4f04-b62d-26b0ebc14fe0" rel="" target="" title="embattled royal"><span>embattled royal</span></a><span>, 65, was last night (6am today AEST) </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-to-be-stripped-of-prince-title-move-out-royal-lodge/0104e49a-d3b0-4673-8fc6-e2d22f00d2d8" rel="" target="" title="stripped of all his titles, including prince"><span>stripped of all his titles, including prince</span></a><span>, in a move made by his brother </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/king-charles-iii" rel="" target="" title="King Charles III"><span>King Charles III</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This move by the monarch came after renewed scrutiny around Andrew's friendship with convicted sex offender </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/Jeffrey-Epstein" rel="" target="" title="Jeffrey Epstein"><span>Jeffrey Epstein</span></a><span> after a recent email leak caught out the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-gives-up-duke-of-york-title/81be27be-2411-4712-8cd5-270ebd64d8d4" rel="" target="" title="former Duke of York"><span>former Duke of York</span></a><span> in a lie about when their association ended.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-news-king-charles-iii-banishes-brother-to-buttress-the-house-of-windsors-foundations/1044252f-a7d1-4f04-b62d-26b0ebc14fe0" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Andrew's problems not solved yet, even after being stripped of prince title</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Also details from abuse survivor and Andrew accuser </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-update-met-police-actively-looking-into-claims-prince-andrew-tried-to-get-information-on-accuser-virginia-giuffre/03d7c034-76a1-4a4f-9e7d-f455ba92d5c4" rel="" target="" title="Virginia Giuffre in her posthumously published memoir"><span>Virginia Giuffre in her posthumously published memoir</span></a><span> further tarnished the royal's name, though he continues to deny all of the allegations against him.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>King Charles said that "notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him", he felt "these censures are deemed necessary".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"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," a statement from Buckingham Palace said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-news-politicians-demand-royal-questioned-after-stripped-of-title-removed-for-roll-of-peerage/4a504928-5280-4ed0-bbc6-7c5c770b804a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Just hours after the announcement was made, which also revealed His Majesty had written to the Lord Chancellor to remove Andrew from the Roll of Peerage, his Duke of York titles were no longer seen on the online roll.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/prince-andrew-to-be-stripped-of-prince-title-move-out-royal-lodge/0104e49a-d3b0-4673-8fc6-e2d22f00d2d8"><strong><span>Virginia Giuffre's family celebrates as Andrew loses 'prince' title</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><span>Calls for Andrew to face questions in the UK and US</span></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As the fallout continues for the second son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, pressure has now turned to having Andrew answer to UK parliament about his rent-free agreement with the Crown Estate.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Others are calling for him to be questioned in the US by the FBI on his relationship with Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, and the financier's partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, who remains behind bars.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Giuffre's family celebrated the King's announcement of Andrew being stripped of all titles and honours and being evicted from his 30-bedroom mansion, but they now want it taken a step further.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family, brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage," Giuffre's family said in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her brother Sky Roberts followed that up in an interview, telling the BBC: "We need to take it one more step further: he needs to be behind bars, period."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Giuffre said when she was a teenager, in the early 2000s, she was caught up in Epstein's sex-trafficking ring and exploited by Andrew and other influential men.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She died by suicide in April at her home in Western Australia, at the age of 41, shortly after finishing her memoir </span><em><span>Nobody's Girl</span></em><span>, which was released last week.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>UK trade minister Chris Bryant appeared to agree with Giuffre's family's sentiment.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The government minister said Andrew was now an "ordinary member of the public", and should go to the US to answer questions about Epstein if asked.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"If Andrew is asked to do something by a Senate committee, then I would have thought that he would want to comply," Bryant told the BBC.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Andrew paid millions in an out-of-court settlement in 2022 after Giuffre filed a civil suit against him in New York. While he didn't admit wrongdoing, he acknowledged Giuffre's suffering as a victim of sex trafficking.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Andrew could face legal trouble in Britain, where police are probing a claim he asked one of this police bodyguards to dig up dirt on Giuffre after providing them with personal information including her date of birth and social security number.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A committee of UK lawmakers is also looking into how Andrew paid for Royal Lodge, which he leased for a nominal annual fee — known as a "peppercorn rent".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><span>Unprecedented royal exit</span></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the wake of this latest round of scandals, Andrew announced he'd surrendered his use of the title Duke of York earlier this month, with the King now taking it further to officially strip him of all titles for his serious lapses in judgement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Removing the title of prince, one he's held since birth as a child of a monarch, is almost unprecedented.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It last happened in 1919, when Prince Ernest Augustus, who was a UK royal and also a prince of Hanover, had his British title removed for siding with Germany during World War I.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Andrew's is the most dramatic royal exit since 1936, when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The couple were given the titles Duke and Duchess of Windsor and lived the rest of their lives in exile outside Britain.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prince Harry, despite renouncing his royal role, feuding with his family and moving to California, remains a prince and the Duke of Sussex.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>- Reported with Associated Press.</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>Support is available from the</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service</span></strong><span> </span><strong><span>at</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.1800respect.org.au/" title="https://www.1800respect.org.au/"><strong><span>1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)</span></strong></a><strong><span>.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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