When is a duke not a duke? When he’s Prince Andrew. Recently, the king’s brother has agreed not to use any of the titles and honors bestowed on him—except for “prince,” to which he is entitled by birth—because of the continuing fallout from his relationship with the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. No longer will he call himself the Duke of York, or be a knight of the garter (KG), a personal honor given by the monarch. He had already agreed not to be addressed as “his royal highness” or “HRH.”

This is not enough. Andrew, now 65, has spent his entire life trading on his aristocratic titles, and there is one way to stop that from happening again: Britain’s Parliament should formally remove them. There is precedent for this. In 1917, the Titles Deprivation Act was passed to deal with tro

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