In 2025 Andrew was stripped of his royal titles, most notably prince. This came amid a scandal involving his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in 2019 while in prison awaiting a U.S. federal sex-trafficking trial. Allegations of sexual abuse were made against Andrew by Virginia Giuffre, leading to a civil lawsuit that he settled in 2022. In October 2025—days before the publication of a memoir by Giuffre, who had died by suicide in April—Andrew surrendered his royal titles, including duke of York. Shortly thereafter he was stripped of his remaining titles and became known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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