Andrew & Epstein - The King acts
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This episode is from The Story's sister podcast The Royals.
He will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The man formerly known as Prince Andrew is being stripped of his titles and removed from his mansion, Royal Lodge, on the Windsor estate. Last month The Times obtained a copy of the leasehold agreement for Royal Lodge which showed that while the prince paid £1 million for the lease plus at least £7.5 million for refurbishments completed in 2005, he has paid “one peppercorn (if demanded)” in rent per year, since 2003. Andrew's links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, brought increasing public and political demands for action. It is a seismic moment in royal history – but is it enough?
Presenter: Roya Nikkhah, royal editor, The Sunday Times.
Contributors:
- Aubrey Allegretti, chief political correspondent,The Times and,
- George Greenwood, investigations reporter, The Times.
Producers: Sophie McNulty, Priyanka Deladia, Robert Wallace, Stephen Titherington.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 0:09.2 | The royal family have had their fourth attempt, their second this month, at dealing with the king's brother, Andrew. |
| 0:17.0 | As his late accuser, Virginia Dufre's memoir, headed for the bookshelves, |
| 0:22.2 | Prince Andrew was forced to say he wouldn't be using his titles and honours anymore, |
| 0:26.7 | whilst still denying all the allegations against him. |
| 0:29.9 | But now, with growing public anger about his relationship with the now dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, |
| 0:36.7 | the questions about Prince Andrew's own conducts, |
| 0:39.3 | and a time scoop which revealed he was living in Royal Lodge and paying almost no rent there. |
| 0:45.4 | The king has decided to evict Andrew from the Windsor estate and take every last ornament and decoration from his name. |
| 0:53.4 | Once his Royal Highness, the Prince Andrew, |
| 0:55.9 | Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, Baron Khalile, knight companion of the most noble author of the |
| 1:01.2 | Garter, Knight Grant Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. He is now instead Mr. Andrew |
| 1:07.0 | Mountbatten Windsor, living in the North Norfolk area. |
| 1:15.7 | So how did it come to this? |
| 1:19.4 | Well, today we'll bring you the latest from one of our sister podcasts, The Royals. |
| 1:24.5 | My colleague and Royal editor at the Sunday Times, Roya Nicar, has been speaking to the Times as investigations reporter George Greenwood and Chief Political Correspondent, |
| 1:29.3 | Aubrey LaGretti. |
| 1:34.7 | On Thursday evening, Buckingham Palace released a statement about the man known until just a few weeks ago |
| 1:45.0 | as Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, Knight of the Garter and inhabitant of Royal Lodge, |
| 1:50.9 | his mansion on the Royal Estate at Windsor. |
| 1:53.4 | In full, the statement said the following. |
| 1:57.2 | His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew. |
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