The front pages of UK national newspapers on display in London showing Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after he was stripped of his royal titles. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA
UK trade minister Chris Bryant and senior opposition figures have welcomed King Charles’ decision to strip his brother Andrew of his titles as Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday he had already lost his peerages.
In a statement on Thursday, the palace cast the removal of the peerages, Andrew’s loss of his title as prince and the end of his lease on the 30-room Royal Lodge as “censures” following controversy over his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
On Friday, it confirmed that the removal of the peerages, including the title Duke of
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