The former prince now known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor faces having to change car number plates after having his Duke of York title taken away.
The King’s brother has previously been seen driving Range Rovers bearing the initials DOY in a nod to his official royal title now lost following his Jeffrey Epstein disgrace.
A car bearing one of those plates was seen on Saturday being driven away from Royal Lodge in Windsor, the property he will now have to leave.
DVLA records show that two licence plates with the initials DOY which had been used by the disgraced ex-Duke are no longer registered.
A £115,000 Land Rover with a different registration – making no apparent reference to any royal status – was used by Andrew and ex-wife Sarah Ferguson when attending the Duchess of Kent’s funeral last month.
The black Land Rover defender with a numberplate ending DOY was seen leaving Bishops Gate near Royal Lodge in Windsor just before 8am on Saturday.
Only a driver was in the vehicle as it left the grounds of Windsor Great Park.
Andrew has previously been pictured driving a vehicle with the same private number plate, as well as another with a different date but also the letters DOY.
A car with a DOY numberplate was seen leaving Royal Lodge in Windsor on November 1
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, pictured here on Christmas Day 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk, has now lost his titles including those of Prince and Duke of York
Huge changes in status for Andrew come after Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday he would no longer be known as a prince and would leave Royal Lodge – instead taking up residence ahead on the family’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
King Charles stripped his brother of titles after weeks of pressure to act over Andrew’s relationship with late financier and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Andrew earlier last month said he would no longer use the title Duke of York following new revelations about his friendship with Epstein and renewed sexual abuse allegations by Epstein victims Virginia Roberts Giuffre in her posthumous memoir.
He has previously been pictured in dark green Range Rovers bearing DOY plates as well as a green Bentley valued at £220,000.
The Mail on Sunday last month revealed how Andrew tried to involve the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth’s most senior aides in a campaign to smear Ms Giuffre, who had accused him of assaulting her as a teenager.
An email exposed how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded police bodyguard to investigate the ‘lying’ young woman.
The prince is said to have passed on details of her date of birth and social security number, thought to have been given to him by Epstein.
He also claimed Virginia, who took her own life earlier this year, had criminal convictions, a claim which has not been backed up by any evidence or confirmed by police and has been strongly denied by her family.
Andrew is pictured here driving on the Windsor Great Park estate in May 2017
Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in a photo reportedly taken in 2001, when Giuffre was 17
The downfall of Prince Andrew comes amid scandals surrounding his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein (pictured together in 2010)
An earlier email exposé proved that Andrew lied to Buckingham Palace and the British public when he claimed he had cut off all contact with his close friend in December 2010, following Epstein’s release from prison on child-sex charges.
Twelve weeks later, he emailed the sex offender financier to say they were ‘in this together’ and sickeningly expressed his wish to ‘play some more soon’.
Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, alleged she was forced to have sex three times with Andrew, which he vehemently denies, including when she was 17 and also during an orgy, after she was trafficked by Epstein.
Andrew paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with her in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.
The King is said to have decided the fate of his brother Andrew with a phone call.
Palace insiders told the Times that Charles’ decision was a sign of the monarch’s ‘steel’ after he made a private phone call to Andrew to break the news of his decision, which was only made after the King wondered how his brother would cope.
A royal source said: ‘For a while, there were significant welfare issues. His entire raison d’être revolves around status. We were asking ourselves: ‘Can he cope?’ In the end, we reached a tipping point and he was made to see sense.’
An insider also said: ‘In the past three years of the King’s reign we have seen his humanity, warmth and compassion,’ a royal source said. ‘Now, we’ve seen his steel.’
The King stripped his younger brother of his prince title and announced Andrew would move out of his home at the Royal Lodge in Windsor on Thursday night
The late Virginia Giuffre, whose posthumous autobiography has now been published, is seen here with a photo of herself – this picture was taken in 2022
Buckingham Palace said on Thursday that the King’s moves against Andrew were ‘deemed necessary notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him’.
The statement said: ‘His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew.
‘Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.
‘Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.
‘These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
‘Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.’
The IOPC police watchdog has suggested the Metropolitan Police ask whether there are any matters it should now look into having failed to previously investigate Andrew.
A spokesperson for the Met said it was first made aware of allegations around non-recent trafficking for sexual exploitation in 2015 which ‘related to events outside the UK and an allegation of trafficking to central London in March 2001’.
It has been claimed Andrew is set to get a six-figure payout and an annual payment as part of his ‘relocation settlement’ after being forced out of the Royal Lodge (pictured)
Andrew is seen here with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson at Ascot in 2019
They added that following legal advice, ‘it was clear that any investigation into human trafficking would be largely focused on activities and relationships outside the UK’, so officers concluded that ‘other jurisdictions and organisations were better placed to pursue the specific allegations’.
And in November 2016, a decision was made that this matter would not proceed to a full criminal investigation, the force said.
It has been claimed Andrew is set to get a six-figure payout and an annual payment as part of his ‘relocation settlement’ after being forced out of the Royal Lodge.
The annual payment privately funded by the King would be potentially worth several times his £20,000-a-year Royal Navy pension.
The report of the payout comes as claims suggest that the decision to strip Andrew of his honours and titles was influenced by the Queen’s concerns about his impact on her work with sex abuse victims.
Camilla has supported survivors of sex attacks and domestic abuse for years and it was recently revealed in a new book that she herself fought off a man who groped her on a train when she was a teenager.
Andrew reportedly agreed to leave Windsor after his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson made it clear that she would be leaving the property.
She will not be moving to Sandringham and will have to find her own new home.
