This Friday, October 17, Prince Andrew announced that he would renounce his royal title due to the scandal in which he is involved in the Epstein affair. In the process, the family of Virginia Giuffre, one of his main accusers, expressed their satisfaction.
“We are convinced that Prince Andrew’s decision to renounce his titles is revenge for our sister and survivors around the world,” said people close to Virginia Giuffre, who committed suicide last April at the age of 41, in a statement published by People magazine.
“This action is a huge step forward in our fight to bring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s child sex trafficking ring to justice,” they added.
The family specifies that it also considers it appropriate that Prince Andrew, brother of King Charles III, removes his title of prince in addition to that of Duke of York.
Accusations renewed in a posthumous book
This decision by Prince Andrew comes as a book by Virginia Giuffre prepares to be published posthumously. Titled “Nobody’s Girl,” it will be released in bookstores on October 21.
In this work, from which The Guardian published several excerpts, he returns to his meeting with Elizabeth II’s son when she was 17 years old, in March 2001. “My daughters are a little younger than you,” the 41-year-old man supposedly told her.
Virginia Giuffre also recounts throughout the pages the sexual relations she experienced with Prince Andrew, particularly after an outing to a nightclub. “He behaved as if he had rights over me, as if he believed that sleeping with me was his birthright,” she says.
Virginia Giuffre filed a complaint against Prince Andrew for sexual assault in 2021. The following year, her lawyers reached a £12 million financial settlement. Prince Andrew has always denied the facts and still denies them to this day, even after giving up his royal title.
Source: BFM TV
