Andrew Stripped Of "Prince" Title
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, Buckingham Palace has announced it has stripped Andrew of his title of “Prince”.
He will be now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor - effective immediately. He will also have to leave his official residence, Royal Lodge.
Adam is joined by Victoria Derbyshire, Newsnight Presenter and BBC Royal Correspondent Daniela Relph.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, and this is your second helping of newscast on Thursday the 30th of October, |
| 0:10.1 | because on Thursday evening, we had some enormous breaking news from Buckingham Palace, |
| 0:15.0 | a statement that announced Prince Andrew would lose all of his titles, which he'd given up voluntarily, |
| 0:20.4 | he'd be stripped of them, he would lose the title Prince titles, which he'd given up voluntarily, he'd be stripped |
| 0:20.8 | to them, he would lose the title Prince, which is his birthright, and he would be moving out |
| 0:25.9 | of his home Royal Lodge to go and live privately on the King's Estate, Sandringham. |
| 0:31.1 | And we will go through all of those developments, and we will unpick the Buckingham Palace |
| 0:35.2 | statement word for word with two people who know the story like the back of their hand on this breaking episode of Newscast. |
| 0:42.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:44.7 | Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. |
| 0:47.6 | I was the tattletail in the class. |
| 0:48.9 | Can I have an apology, please? |
| 0:50.2 | I trust almost nobody. |
| 0:51.9 | That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio at Just Gone Half-past 10. And here is Senior Royal Correspondent, Daniela Ralph. Hello, Daniela. Hello, Adam. And also on the line is Victoria |
| 1:11.0 | Derbyshire, not on news night tonight, on newscast. Hello. Hi, hi, Adam. Hi, Daniela. Right. I'd love to go through this statement from Buckingham Palace word for word, or sentence by sentence, because it is very, very striking. But before we do that, big picture, snapshot, Daniela, instant reaction, go. Big moment, huge moment. |
| 1:28.1 | The King, I think, acting as toughly as we have ever seen him. |
| 1:32.1 | Pretty ruthless in the decision he's made. |
| 1:33.7 | Many would say maybe it's a bit late, but in terms of just the straightforward decision |
| 1:37.2 | as it exists on the table tonight is quite something. |
| 1:40.4 | He has done tonight, basically what monarchs have done through history, hasn't he? |
| 1:44.2 | Like his predecessors, he has cut off a problem that is any kind of threat to the monarchy. |
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