After weeks of backlash following the latest round of revelations about Prince Andrew's ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Buckingham Palace announced this week that the disgraced royal was being stripped of his "Prince" title and will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
The decision to strip Andrew of his Prince title (as well as to evict him from Royal Lodge, the royal residence he and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, have called home since 2003), was ultimately King Charles' to make. While royal experts largely agree that the move must have been a difficult one for Charles to make about his younger brother, royal author Christopher Andersen says the move likely wouldn't have happened at all if the late Queen Elizabeth were still on the throne.
