Royal watchers learned in October 2025 that King Charles III stripped his younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor - formerly known as Prince Andrew - of his royal titles and evicted him from his lavish home. The former prince's spectacular fall from grace has been tied to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten-Windsor told BBC's Newsnight in 2019 that he met Epstein through the disgraced financier's girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, though he denied any wrongdoing.