Prince Andrew: stripped of all titles

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00:00He will no longer hold any honor or royal distinction, and will now be known simply

00:06as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Britain is moving to withdraw the last remaining military titles

00:11from Prince Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III.

00:16This is a move that's right. It's a move that the king has indicated we should take,

00:24and we're working on that at the moment.

00:26The British king has decided to strip his younger brother of his royal titles

00:31after a scandal linking him to American businessman Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sex crimes.

00:38The controversy resurfaced after the publication of Virginia Jufre's memoir,

00:42in which she accuses the 65-year-old former prince of involvement with her

00:47while Epstein was exploiting her and other underage girls.

00:51Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied any relationship with Virginia Jufre,

00:55and Buckingham Palace has consistently avoided mentioning Epstein's victims

00:59in its statements about the scandal in recent years.