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Off with his title but will the blue bloodletting satisfy the mob?

The Herald's View October 31, 2025 — 4.13pm

The defenestration of the scandal-draped Prince Andrew was inevitable.

The eighth in line to the throne has been falling from grace for decades but the soon-to-be Andrew Mountbatten Windsor endured, thanks to the unswerving support of his doting mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

With her gone, however, Andrew could not survive the ever-mounting odour of his involvement with the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and a young woman the billionaire financier trafficked. The prince has steadfastly denied that he raped the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, but publication of her posthumous memoir made his position in the royal

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