Queen Protected Andrew; King Charles Is Pulling Away

In March 2022, Prince Andrew — now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — was publicly disgraced by revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and paid a multimillion-dollar settlement to Virginia Giuffre, who said he assaulted her as a teenager. Despite that, he accompanied Queen Elizabeth II to a memorial service that month; his treatment under King Charles III has been sharply different.

Charles has steadily removed the trappings of royal life from his brother: forbidding him to wear uniform at Elizabeth’s funeral, seating him low at the coronation and stripping him of titles so he is simply Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. When the former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the king issued a rare first-person statement beginning “I,” saying he had learned the news with “the deepest concern” and that the authorities would have “our full and wholehearted support and cooperation.” Mr.

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