The King banishes Andrew - but will it be enough?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It's a 2025 royal knockout. After sustained and mounting pressure, the King took drastic action last night, stripping his brother of his prince title and turfing him out of Royal Lodge.
Prince Andrew becomes Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Why has King Charles moved so decisively against his brother now? And will this draw a line under the Epstein scandal that has dogged the Palace - or are there still questions that remain unresolved?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Am I right in thinking you threw a birthday party for Epstein's girlfriend, Gulen Maxwell, at Sandringham? |
| 0:20.5 | No, it was a shooting weekend. |
| 0:22.3 | A shooting weekend. |
| 0:23.0 | Just a straightforward shooting weekend. |
| 0:25.8 | That was Prince Andrew speaking to me in November of 2019. |
| 0:30.6 | It looks like Andrew, as we must now get used to calling him, |
| 0:34.6 | will be spending a lot more time at Sandringham. The decision of the |
| 0:39.4 | king to strip him of his title of Prince, to strip him of the Royal Lodge at Windsor, was dramatic, |
| 0:49.0 | jaw-dropping. But will it be enough for the royal family to finally deal with the Andrew problem? |
| 0:57.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:03.6 | The news agents. |
| 1:05.2 | It's John. |
| 1:06.0 | It's Emily. |
| 1:06.8 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:07.9 | And to give a rough timeline on events, we had been due to give you an episode that was a Q&A today. |
| 1:14.7 | So sorry if your questions aren't being answered. But we then repaired to a pub last night, the three of us, with the whole of the newsagents team. |
| 1:22.5 | Because our dear cameraman Rory is going on to Pastors New. And we were in the pub probably for about an hour, an hour and a half, |
| 1:32.0 | when Mr Goodall produces his phone with the breaking news on it that the prince had been stripped of his princestum |
| 1:39.8 | and would no longer be living in Royal Lodge and we all went, gosh. |
| 1:44.9 | Well, I don't think the word was gosh, but it was something like that. |
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