London – Buckingham Palace has announced that  Prince Andrew will lose his title and move out of the Royal Lodge.

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, The Buckingham Palace said that Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

“King Charles III has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,” the statement said. 

As well as the title,  formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease on Royal Lodge, the Palace said.

These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the statement said.

Andrew gave up his other royal titles earlier this month, including the Duke of York, after more questions about his private life

In a posthumous memoir published this month, Virginia Giuffre repeated allegations that, as a teenager, she had sex with Prince Andrew on three separate occasions – Andrew has always denied the claims

Also this month, emails from 2011 re-emerged, showing Andrew in contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein months after he claimed their friendship ended, BBC reported.

He is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.  

He served in the Royal Navy between 1979 and 2001 as a helicopter pilot and instructor and as the captain of a warship. Andrew married Sarah Ferfuson in 1986. They have two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. He got divorce with his wife in 1996.  

The main opposition, Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, told the LBC Radio, “I think that the King has clearly felt that this is the right decision for the royal family. It must have been a very difficult thing for him to have done. I mean, having to do that to your own brother. But the standards and expectations in society now are very high. People expect to see the very highest levels of integrity.”