MPs Under Growing Pressure To Pass Law Stripping Prince Andrew Of His Royal Titles

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68f5f1421800007281fe39d4.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="A selection of national newspapers showing the front pages and their reaction to Prince Andrew announcing that he will relinquish his Duke of York title and the Order of the Garter." data-caption="A selection of national newspapers showing the front pages and their reaction to Prince Andrew announcing that he will relinquish his Duke of York title and the Order of the Garter." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />A selection of national newspapers showing the front pages and their reaction to Prince Andrew announcing that he will relinquish his Duke of York title and the Order of the Garter.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>MPs are under mounting pressure to bring forward a law to strip Prince Andrew of his royal titles.</p><p>Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that the King’s brother would no longer be known as the Duke of Edinburgh amid the ongoing controversy about his private life.</p><p>The royal family is bracing itself for fresh revelations this week as the posthumous memoir of Virginia Giuffre – who accused Prince Andrew of having sex with her when she was a teenager – is published.</p><p>The prince has always denied her allegations, but is now facing a Metropolitan Police probe <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/prince-andrew-asked-police-sexual-abuse-accuser-report_n_68f58b36e4b09d351b441ea9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">into claims he passed Giuffre’s personal details to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard </a>in 2011 and asked him to investigate her.</p><p>Although he has given up his titles voluntarily, he technically still holds them as it would take an Act of Parliament for him to officially lose them.</