King Charles III strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him from royal residence

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. I think this was caused by the email hoping to "play some more soon" with Epstein, after Andrew claimed he had cut off

contact.

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein in an email “we are in this together” after a picture of the British royal with his arm around a teenage Virginia Giuffre was first published in 2011.

The email will pile further pressure on the Duke of York and the royal family because he previously told the BBC he had ceased contact with the convicted child sex offender by that point.
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Andrew emailed Epstein on 28 February 2011, the day after the well-known photograph of the duke, Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell was made public. He told Epstein to “keep in close touch” and expressed a wish to “play some more soon”.
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But he wrote to Epstein in the message after the photo was published: “I’m just as concerned for you! Don’t worry about me! It would seem we are in this together and will have to rise above it. Otherwise keep in close touch and we’ll play some more soon!!!!”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/12/prince-andrew-told-jeffrey-epstein-were-in-this-together-in-2011-email

So this shows that his claim that he'd gone to New York to say he would break all contact with Epstein (when they were photographed in Central Park) was a tissue of lies; and the "play some more soon" is, in the context of Epstein, depraved. Whether they have any more as yet unpublished evidence, that really was enough for them to need to push him as far away as they could.

I wouldn't put this quite on the Mary and Elizabeth scale (and I'd say that Mary II and her husband William III invading to depose her father James II/VII was more dramatic in 1689, while being "internal" in a sense). It's at the scale of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson; on the face of it, more dramatic, since they hadn't done anything wrong, though him being later seen as Nazi-curious gave that a lot of importance after the fact.