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Republicans claim US president ‘desperate’ to end shutdown, which has now entered 33rd dayDonald Trump has said he feels bad for the British royal family after King Charles stripped his brother Andrew of his title as prince amid the continuing fallout over Andrew’s connections with the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday evening, Trump was asked about King Charles’s decision to strip his brother of his peerages and the title of prince. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Andrew Mountbatten Windsor "ordered 40 prostitutes to hotel room on taxpayers' money"

The bombshell claim emerged after King Charles began proceedings to strip his disgraced brother of all Royal titles including 'prince'.

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1 week ago Keir Starmer has 'no plans' to remove Andrew from line of succession

The King's dramatic decision to formally strip his brother of his Prince and Duke of York titles and HRH style leaves him with the status of a commoner - but he remains eighth in line to the throne.

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1 week ago Andrew’s name scrubbed from peerage roll in key step to strip him of titles

The King took the dramatic decision to formally strip his brother Andrew of his Prince and Duke of York titles and HRH style.

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1 week ago Andrew’s name removed from peerage roll in key step to strip him of titles

The King took the dramatic decision to formally strip his brother Andrew of his Prince and Duke of York titles and HRH style.

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1 week ago Stripping of Andrew’s titles hailed a ‘victory’ by family of Virginia Giuffre

Charles has taken the dramatic decision to formally strip his brother of his Prince and Duke of York titles and HRH style.

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3 w. ago New law to give King power to strip brother Prince Andrew of his dukedom introduced

The Bill is unlikely to become law without Government support, and ministers appear to be taking their lead from Buckingham Palace. But pressure is mounting amid swirling allegations

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3 w. ago New law proposed to give King power to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom

York Central MP Rachael Maskell said it was time for Parliament to act on the issue.

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3 w. ago What do we learn from Epstein and Andrew? There’s a level of power at which right and wrong no longer exist | Zoe Williams

Prince Andrew has finally decided to give up his titles – but we have known the shape of the allegations against him for years. Why was there a collective decision to look away?On the eve of the publication of Virginia Giuffre’s book Nobody’s Girl, released six months after her death from despair, Buckingham Palace is apparently braced for fresh revelations. Many MPs are calling for a change in the law, to give King Charles or a parliamentary committee the power to remove royal titles, with Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, pleading with parliament to take seriously this opportunity to “address the wrongs of history and to ensure that the voices of victims and survivors are really heard and acted upon”. A source at the palace told the BBC they expected “more days of pain ahead”.Getting ahead of these “days of pain”, Prince Andrew – he continues to hold the title he was born with – announced last Friday that he was relinquishing his use of “Duke of York” and “KG”, knig...

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3 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's brother demands King Charles strip Andrew of 'prince' title

Prince Andrew has been accused of trying to 'dig up dirt' about Virginia Giuffre. Her brother Sky Roberts called on King Charles to strip Andrew of his 'prince' title

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