The King has pressed the nuclear button after deciding that his brother has become such a stain on his family’s reputation, he has to be stripped of everything royal .

For almost four years, Buckingham Palace has done its best to distance the monarchy from Andrew’s disgrace by forcing him to step away from royal duties, stand down from patronages, and latterly to stop using his titles and honours.

But it has been to no avail.

King Charles’s decisive action now is unlikely to stop further questions and revelations about his brother’s friendship with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein or how he lived off the taxpayer at Royal Lodge , from where he is set to leave. New Feature

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