Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after ‘discussion with King’

Today’s announcement comes days before the posthumous memoir of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre is due for release – almost six months after she took her own life.

Extracts from the book, Nobody’s Girl, were published in the Guardian on Wednesday.

Her book, which calls Epstein a “master manipulator”, describes three occasions where she alleges Prince Andrew had sex with her, including at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London.

It’s further embarrassment for Prince Andrew, who reached a financial settlement with Giuffre in 2022, and has always denied any wrongdoing.

Giuffre, who met Jeffrey Epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell, claimed that she was one of many vulnerable girls and young women who had been sexually exploited by Epstein and his circle of wealthy connections.

The powerful friends were claimed to include Prince Andrew and the extract published in the Guardian gives her account of when they met in London in March 2001, when she was aged 17.

Prince Andrew denies all the accusations made against him.