Britain’s royal family has stripped Prince Andrew of his royal titles and ordered him out of his 30-room residence in the grounds of Windsor Castle, bowing to intensifying pressure over his association with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
There has been an avalanche of headlines coinciding with the publication of a posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” by Andrew’s accuser Virginia Giuffre. The royal family will have hoped Andrew’s decision to give up the use of his royal titles and honors would put an end to the saga. But it was not enough.
Once celebrated as a decorated war hero, Andrew, the brother of King Charles III, has been thrown into the royal wilderness, not even invited to spend Christmas with his family at their Sandringham estate, and now unceremoniously stripped of his titles and booted out of his home.
Andrew insists he never met Giuffre, who accused him of sexually assaulting her while she was a teenager, and has always denied accusations of wrongdoing against him. Critics say the royal family and UK government did not act swiftly enough to hold the disgraced royal to account. Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
The former prince, now plain Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was one of the many high-profile individuals to associate with Epstein. Andrew has said the pair were introduced by Epstein’s then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in 1999. He later said they met “infrequently,” adding that their encounters were “probably no more than only once or twice a year.”
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