Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been struck from the official roll of the peerage, says Buckingham Palace.

That is the process by which he will no longer be Duke of York, as the dukedom is a peerage.

Previously Andrew had agreed not to use the title of Duke of York, but this goes a step further by removing it completely.

There had been calls from MPs for Parliament to provide legislation to strip Andrew of the title.

But it’s now been taken away by the King, who sent a Royal Warrant to the Lord Chancellor to take Andrew off the list of peers, where he had been as Duke of York.

These are the constitutional processes now taking place to carry out last night’s dramatic announcement.

We know the former prince Andrew will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, but how exactly does the removal of his titles work?

Some details remain unclear.

Andrew voluntarily gave up his Duke of York title earlier this month but, until yesterday, he still went by his prince title.

Buckingham Palace’s statement yesterday evening changes things. It said the King had initiated a “formal process” to remove Andrew’s “style, titles and honours”.

As we reported earlier, his name has now been struck off the peerage roll where dukes are listed.

But the next step in formally removing his titles is unclear given the rarity of an event like this.

As our Home and Legal Correspondent wrote last night, the last time a royal title was stripped away was in 1917.

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Earlier this morning, we heard from trade minister Chris Bryant, who told BBC Breakfast that he's "delighted" Andrew has been stripped of his title as a prince.

"We warmly, I warmly support what the King is doing today," the Labour minister said, adding: "I think the vast majority of people in this country will think that it's the right thing to do."

Asked if Parliament should pursue questions about where Andrew has been getting his money from, he said: "I think it's perfectly legitimate."

"I'm absolutely sure that the Royal household would want to co-operate with Parliament in anything that it wanted to do in that regard."

Never has Andrew ever shown a hint of public remorsepublished at 10:50 GMT 31 October

10:50 GMT 31 October

Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent

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Andrew’s downfall has been going on for years, it’s been the proverbial slow-motion car crash for his reputation and status.

But one factor in how it’s kept getting worse is that he’s never responded in the way that the public might expect from someone caught up in scandals.

There’s a well-trodden path of contrition and regret, disappearing for a while and then perhaps making a gradual return to public life.

The most widely-cited example was John Profumo, a politician who resigned in a sex scandal in the 1960s, but then rebuilt his reputation with years of quiet charity work and later received an honour.

Andrew has never seemed to respond to any expectation of any show of remorse. He has always denied any wrongdoing and might say he had no reason to apologise.

But throughout the long loss of status - dropped as trade envoy, removed as a working royal, losing his HRH, no longer Duke of York - he’s never shown any sign of regret to the public.

Even at the recent funeral of the Duchess of Kent he didn’t seem able to keep his head down.

At no stage has Andrew taken the steps that might have made rehabilitation possible. Now it’s even harder to see how that might begin.

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Callers from around the UK have been ringing in to BBC Radio 5 Live to share their views on Andrew being stripped of his title as prince.

Anita in County Durham, one of many callers supportive of the King's decision, describes Andrew's behaviour as arrogant, entitled and selfish.

"I have sympathy for his daughters and grandchildren and the effect it’s going to have on them," she tells Nicky Campbell. "That’s the only sympathy I have."

While Pamela in Colchester says: "He’s grown up thinking he can do and have whatever he likes because mummy said so."

On Andrew's longtime residence, Royal Lodge, a 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle, Adrian in Forest Gate is scathing.

"You could get 30 asylum seekers in there and save the state 30 hotel bills," he says, in reference to the government's asylum accommodation system.

"It would be a win-win situation, and it might endear the Royal Family, not him, to reignite public enthusiasm."

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What we know so far...

• He will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, after losing his "prince" title, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday
• He will no longer reside at the Royal Lodge, and will instead move to a property in the Sandringham Estate
• It's understood Andrew's accommodation will be privately funded by the King
• Though he's no longer a prince, Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne
• His two adult daughters - Eugenie and Beatrice - will retain their titles as princesses
• His ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, who has also lived at Royal Lodge, will have to make her own living arrangements

What we still don't know...

• How Parliament's spending watchdog will deal with its investigation into how public money was spent on Andrew
• Whether there will be further investigations into Andrew's behaviour - the Giuffre family has called for him to be put "behind bars"
• When exactly Andrew will move out of his Windsor mansion - the media has been seen waiting outside the gates this morning, waiting for any movement
• If he'll get money back from the Crown Estate when he moves out of the residence - our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan says it remains unclear

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While Andrew moves into a private home on Sandringham Estate, his ex-wife will make her own living arrangements.

The former prince and Sarah Ferguson (previously known as Sarah, Duchess of York) have been divorced since the mid-1990s, but in recent years lived together at Royal Lodge.

Aside from her ex-husband, Ferguson has attracted controversy of her own.

Last month, several charities dropped her as patron or ambassador after an email from 2011 revealed that she called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a "supreme friend".

Their daughters, Beatrice, 37, and Eugenie, 35, are currently non-working royals, and will retain their titles as princesses.

Andrew's name no longer appears on the official roll of the peerage., external

Dukes are listed on this roll, which is maintained by the Crown Office. David Lammy, as Lord Chancellor, is responsible for maintaining the roll.

As a reminder, Andrew voluntarily gave up his Duke of York title earlier this month as pressure mounted.

He has now been stripped of his prince title in a decision announced by Buckingham Palace yesterday.

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Could Andrew get money back on Royal Lodge?published at 09:46 GMT 31 October

09:46 GMT 31 October

Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent

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There have been questions about whether and why Andrew might get money back from the Crown Estate when he leaves Royal Lodge.

In theory, he will be entitled to more than £500,000, because he paid upfront for renovation and rent at Royal Lodge, paying more than £8m when he took on the lease of the Windsor mansion in 2003.

The deal was that if he left within the first 25 years - which will end in 2028 - he’d be able to reclaim some of that money which he’d paid in advance. It was an amount that tapered down each year, starting from about £7m and reducing in stages.

At present, it’s based on about £186,000 for each year left up to the end of that 25-year agreement, which was part of his 75-year lease.

The Public Accounts Committee had asked the Crown Estate about a figure of £560,000 if Andrew had left next year.

But it’s also understood that some of that compensation might have to be used to cover the cost of repairs to Royal Lodge, so it remains unclear what he might get back from his original payment.

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The re-emerged email and a relentless build up of bad newspublished at 09:27 GMT 31 October

09:27 GMT 31 October

Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent

Downfalls are often about timing.

A key piece of information was the re-emergence of an email, appearing on newspaper front pages, showing that Andrew had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein later than he’d promised in his BBC Newsnight interview.

What was damning about that was that it cast doubt on his account of his relationship with Epstein - and that seemed to have made a significant difference in the Palace’s attitude.

Months after he had claimed to have cut links with Epstein, they were still emailing each other. Except that email, with its message to Epstein to “play some more soon” had first been revealed and widely covered in January.

It had been published in court documents as part of a Financial Conduct Authority case.

But between that email’s first appearance and this month’s re-appearance, with more of the email's text, had been a relentless building up of bad news.

Andrew’s reputation had been steamrollered by Andrew Lownie’s biography, Entitled, which drew much adverse attention on the then Duke of York.

Another book, a memoir by his accuser Virginia Giuffre, had put Andrew’s links with Epstein back into the spotlight.

An email from his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson had showed that she stayed privately in touch with Epstein - prompting charities to ditch her as a patron.

Political pressure in the US to release more Epstein documents again raised questions about his links to Andrew, with new details about Andrew’s flights to Epstein’s Caribbean island.

Cumulatively it created a sense that something had to be done.

A bit more from Jonathan Dimbleby - the broadcaster and confidant of King Charles - who has also been speaking to our colleagues on BBC Breakfast.

He was pressed by host Charlie Stayt about a point that Virginia Giuffre's family has raised - which is that they believe Andrew should be behind bars.

If Andrew was called before the Senate in the US to answer questions about the alleged crimes he's committed - which he denies - would the King try to stop that, Stayt asks.

No, says Dimbleby, because he will want to keep out of this - the judicial process.

"If there is an extradition, it will not have to do with the King himself," says Dimbleby.

"One of the proper things to do now is to have made it clear that the prince, his brother, is beyond the pale."

We know Andrew is moving out of Royal Lodge, the Windsor mansion he began leasing in 2003.

And we know he's moving to the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk.

But we don't know when that move will happen - other than it will be "as soon as it is practicable".

At the gates of Royal Lodge, the media are waiting for any movement - although they may be waiting for some time.

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Dimbleby now says he has "no doubt" that the King has been "consistently embarrassed, frustrated by and angry about" his brother's behaviour.

"At the same time, he is a brother," he adds. The King has to be "mindful of that person".

Even Andrew, "humiliated and broken, is in need of some degree of care", Dimbleby tells the Today programme's Nick Robinson.

He points out that the King is also a human being, undergoing treatment for cancer: "That is stressful enough". He hopes people will "think kindly" of him now that he has taken this action.

Dimbleby goes on to say the Andrew controversy was constantly "chipping away" at the monarchy.

He gives the example of the King going to the Vatican to pray with the Pope this month - which he describes as a "really important" constitutional and spiritual moment - but it was Andrew dominating the front pages.

Pressed on why the decision took so long, Dimbleby says the King has to go through due process - and calls it "huge step that has been taken".

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Jonathan Dimbleby - introduced by friend Nick Robinson as a confidant of King Charles - tells the Today programme that Andrew is "arrogant, boorish, entitled - an embarrassment for a long time".

On why the King has taken action now, Dimbleby calls it a "culmination".

He refers to Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, published this month, and photos of Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York from December 2010, plus subsequent emails.

"He said he had gone there [New York] to break with - he was lying," says Dimbleby. "He continued the relationship."

As a reminder, emails recently re-emerged showing Andrew emailed Epstein in February 2011 - after he went to New York to "end" his relationship with Epstein.

The email ended with: "Keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!!!!"

Broadcaster and friend of King Charles, Jonathan Dimbleby, is about to speak to BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

You can watch live at the top of the page - and we'll bring you the key lines here.

Moving Andrew well away from Windsor was clearly felt the better optionpublished at 08:08 GMT 31 October

08:08 GMT 31 October

Helena Wilkinson
Reporting from Windsor

Last night's announcement from Buckingham Palace was extraordinary.

Such drastic action taken by the King to deal with his younger brother can't have been easy.

Stripping Andrew of the last remaining royal connections and privileges he had; casting him away to try and remove what's become a reputational problem for the Royal Family. It's brutal.

But the decisions made by the King with the support of the wider Royal Family were clearly felt needed.

Andrew will also lose his 30-room Grade II listed home in Windsor. He's surrendering the lease.

There was likely the option for him to move to a property elsewhere within the grounds of Windsor Castle, like Frogmore or Adelaide cottages.

But clearly moving him out and away from a town that is so deeply linked to the Royal Family was felt the better option.

Julian Payne, former communications secretary to the King and Queen, tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "clear that a tipping point had been reached in recent weeks with new information emerging".

Andrew had become a "huge distraction" from what the Royal Family are there to do, he says - adding that it was time for "decisive action".

A common question has been: why now? Payne points to:

• an email that re-emerged that challenged Andrew's timeline of events
• details in Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir
• photos that emerged of Jeffrey Epstein attending events in the grounds of Windsor Castle

Payne says working royals are "attuned to public sentiment", out meeting the public "week in, week out". They can feel when "more levers need to be pulled," he adds.

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The Royal Family hope to move on. But they have hoped that beforepublished at 07:34 GMT 31 October

07:34 GMT 31 October

Noor Nanji
Culture reporter

The Palace will hope fervently to move on from all of this now, and refocus on the work of the wider Royal Family.

That had been the hope a few weeks ago, when Andrew relinquished his other titles, including the Duke of York.

In the event, the opposite seemed to happen, with the scrutiny only intensifying in recent weeks.

And that was spilling into the other engagements of the Royal Family.

Just on Monday, we saw a single protester heckling the King about what he knew about his brother and Epstein, during a trip to Staffordshire - although he was drowned out by vocal cheers of support for the King.

The Prince of Wales has his environmental Earthshot Prize ceremony in Rio de Janeiro coming up. We know how much that means to him.

With Andrew now stripped of his prince title and his Windsor mansion also gone, the hope will be that all of this draws a line under the scandals.