As each day passed over the last little while, there was a growing sense that something had to give in the circumstances surrounding the man who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

In a move with little — if any — royal precedent, Buckingham Palace said Thursday that King Charles has started the formal process to strip his younger brother of his title of prince.

Andrew, 65, is also being evicted from the 30-room mansion he leases from the Crown Estate near Windsor Castle and relocating to one of the King’s private estates in the fallout from the scandal and controversy around his association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

That controversy had become a crisis for the Royal Family. In Charles’s handling of it — particularly Thursday’s statement re

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