Painting: '2025 Andrew and Family' by Sean Bw Parker

'2025 Andrew and Family' by Sean Bw Parker

In Autumn 2025, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his Prince styling, and the majority of his other honours, by his elder brother King Charles. This was due to the media reaction to the posthumous publication of the ghost written Nobody's Girl by Virginia Giuffre, who had retracted her false allegation about lawyer Alan Dershowitz not long before her suicide in early 2025. Andrew's demotion was also due to his friendship with billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who had been prosecuted over charges relating to underage prostitution in 2009, and who died in a jail cell in 2019 leaving a million political problems for anyone who had associated with him. 

King Charles has often emphasized that prisons should be places of "hope not despair" and has used his charitable foundations to support initiatives that provide offenders with the skills and support needed to reintegrate into society. He has stressed the importance of holistic, multi-agency support, recognizing that many offenders have complex needs, including mental health issues.

His Brother Andrew's very public defrocking will have affected his ex wife but continuing friend and ally Sarah Ferguson, and their two daughters Beatrice and Eugenie. While media-fuelled allegations are disastrous for everyone, the effect they have on the close friends and family of the accused are often overlooked - whatever their status.