Prince Andrew has seen financial support from his brother king charles cut, the daily mail journalistic reports.

Andrew, who was second in line to the British throne when he was born in 1960, has seen his position fall dramatically since his non-apology for his former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged in a 2019 BBC interview.

The resulting outrage stripped him of his military titles and patronages and forced him to retreat from public life. However, he has continued to live in a royal house in west London and receives an allowance of £1 million a year ($1.3 million a year) from the royal purse.

Now, he daily mail The newspaper reports that King Charles has severed financial ties with his brother.and instructed the royal accountants to stop paying this allowance.

the mail It cites an updated biography by royal author Robert Hardman, who writes that Andrew “is no longer a financial burden to the king.”

The London Times tells the same storyadding that Buckingham Palace and the Crown Estate declined to comment, while Andrew could not be contacted for comment.