In a shocking royal shakeup, King Charles III stripped Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his prince title—an audacious move that his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II , would have never dared to make.

"This must have been a painful decision for the King — this is his brother, after all," royal author Christopher Andersen said after the controversial announcement on Thursday, October 30. Article continues below advertisement

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The decision comes amid the fallout from Andrew's continued scandalous ties to Jeffrey Epstein , which has left the royal family facing intense scrutiny.

"Charles must know how much booting Andrew out of the royal family would have hurt his mother, the late queen," Anderse

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