Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the royal family's most controversial figure, was banished from the monarchy in disgrace and forced to step down from public life amid a damaging sexual assault scandal.A friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a car-crash television interview and a civil sex abuse case settled with a multimillion-pound payout all led to his dramatic downfall.He was stripped of his prince and Duke of York titles by his own brother the King in 2025, as the Epstein scandal

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the royal family's most controversial figure, was banished from the monarchy in disgrace and forced to step down from public life amid a damaging sexual assault scandal.A friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a car-crash television interview and a civil sex abuse case settled with a multimillion-pound payout all led to his dramatic downfall.He was stripped of his prince and Duke of York titles by his own brother the King in 2025, as the Epstein scandal showed no sign of abating.Now on his 66th birthday, Andrew - who remains eighth in line to the throne - has become the first senior member of the House of Windsor to be arrested.