King Charles will strip his younger brother Andrew of his royal titles and long-term residence on the Windsor estate, the palace said in a statement on Thursday.The announcement followed fresh outrage at accusations made by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s main accusers against the 65-year-old, who has denied the charges.

“His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,” it said.”Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” it said.Andrew has also been told to move out of his long-time home on Windsor Castle’s sprawling grounds, and he will move “to alternative private accommodation.

“”These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said.”Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse,” the palace said.

It comes days after the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir, in which the victim of US sex offender Epstein reiterated in shocking detail allegations she had sex with Andrew three times, including when she was only 17.

The prince, who denies any wrongdoing, agreed to pay US and Australian citizen Giuffre millions of dollars in 2022 to end her civil sexual assault case against him.She took her own life in April, aged 41, while Epstein took his own life in 2019 in prison awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

In mid-October, Prince Andrew renounced his title of Duke of York and other honours after being increasingly embroiled in scandals around his ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“I will… no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me,” Andrew, 65, said in a statement.He said his decision came after discussions with his brother, King Charles III, and his own “immediate and wider family”.“I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first,” he said.

He again denied all allegations, but said “we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family”.Andrew, who stepped back from public life in 2019, will remain a prince, as he is the second son of the late queen Elizabeth II.But he will no longer hold the title of Duke of York that she had conferred on him.His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will also no longer use the title of Duchess of York, though his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie remain princesses.