Prince Andrew latest: Andrew told to leave public life forever after embarrassing royal family

In her memoirs published today after her death, Virginia Giuffre describes the moment when that famous photo with Prince Andrew was taken.

The prince says he posed with Ghislaine Maxwell when he first met her at her London home when she was 17.

He recalled running to grab his “Kodak FunSaver” camera and asking Epstein to take the photo.

She added: “My mother would never forgive me if I didn’t meet someone famous like Prince Andrew and take a photo with her.”

The SNP tabled a motion to pressure Sir Keir Starmer’s government to officially take Andrew’s title; this would require an Act of Parliament.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster leader, introduced an early day motion (EDM) which allows MPs to express an opinion, make a case or support a position. It is rare that these are discussed.

There are 14 signatures supporting EDM, all of which come from SNP, Plaid Cymru or Green Party MPs.

There are many people who know all too well how shameful and terrifying it is to have a parent accused of something terrible. But few people have experienced it under public scrutiny for as long as princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Theirs is a rare kind of hell.

Samuel Fishwick suggests that royal princesses should take some time away from their disgraced fathers, for their own sake and especially for the sake of their young children:

Virginia Giuffre’s brother has called on the police watchdog to review the Metropolitan Police’s decision not to continue investigations into allegations against Prince Andrew.

Giuffre’s family says she was “gaslit” by police and authorities in both the UK and the US and it was a “kick in the gut” for her.

They called on the Met Police to reopen an investigation into Ms Giuffre’s claim that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17, an allegation Giuffre vehemently denies.

And they said they felt that if London police did not act, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) should review the decision.

Six months after his death, Virginia Giuffre’s memoir revealed harrowing new details about Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking.

While the book is being published on Tuesday, here are some of the most important facts:

She describes the first time she met Andrew

Giuffre says she was taken shopping in London by Ghislaine Maxwell before the meeting. They posed for photos together at his apartment before heading out to dinner and a nightclub.

She claims she was told to “do for him what she did for Jeffrey” and that after they had sex, the prince thanked her in a “shortened British accent”.

Sex party with Andrew on Epstein’s island

Giuffre claims the third time she had sex with Prince Andrew was during an orgy with eight other teenage girls on Epstein’s Caribbean island of Little Saint James.

He wrote: “Epstein, Andy and about eight teenage girls and I had sex together. The other girls all looked and appeared to be under 18 and didn’t really speak English.”

Giuffre ‘surprised’ Andrew was ‘stupid’ enough to publicly meet with Epstein after conviction

After Epstein was released from prison for procuring a minor for prostitution, Giuffre wrote in 2011 that she was shocked to see a photo of Andrew with her in New York’s Central Park.

Andrew’s Newsnight interview was ‘jet fuel’ for legal team

When Giuffre wrote in 2019 that she was considering suing Andrew, she said she saw the royal do a sit-down interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, in which Maitlis said she had “no recollection” of ever meeting Giuffre.

Giuffre wrote: “As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, it was like an injection of jet fuel for my legal team. Its contents… would help us build a solid case against the prince.”

Andrew ‘hid behind the gates of Balmoral’

In August 2021, Giuffre’s team filed a lawsuit alleging that “Prince Andrew raped and assaulted me when I was a minor, causing me serious and permanent damage.”

When the action was initiated, he wrote that the papers could not be served on Andrew because “Queen Elizabeth had fled to Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hid behind its well-guarded gates.”

The Independent’s political correspondent Caitlin Doherty reports:

The Liberal Democrats said Prince Andrew should refund “every penny of the rent he did not pay while degrading his office”.

“The longer this sad story goes on, the more insulting and increasingly embarrassing his presence in public life becomes,” Lisa Smart, a spokeswoman for the party’s cabinet office, said on Tuesday.

In a statement on Tuesday, he said: “Andrew has failed our King and our Royal Family and betrayed the values ​​of the British people.

“The longer this sad saga goes on, the more insulting and increasingly embarrassing his presence in public life becomes.

“While he has disgraced his office, he should show some remorse by refunding every penny of the rent he didn’t pay.”

Pressure is mounting for Prince Andrew to give up his 30-bedroom mansion after it was revealed he had been paying “pepper rent” for more than 20 years.

Senior Conservative Party member Robert Jenrick said “the public is fed up with him” and said it was “time for Prince Andrew to go live privately”.

Parliamentary committees may also examine the Crown Estate’s dealings with Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence in Windsor.

A copy of the lease shared by the Crown Estate shows Andrew signed a 75-year lease on the property in 2003.

It emerges that he paid £1 million in rent and has since paid a “peppercorn” annual rent “on demand”.

Andrew wrote in his memoirs that he correctly guessed that Virginia Giuffre was 17 when they first met: Nobody’s Daughter.

He said Ghislaine Maxwell, who was later convicted as a sex trafficker, went shopping for clothes to wear for a meeting at Maxwell’s flat in London in 2001.

Maxwell, who was “flirtier than ever” at the meeting, asked the then-duke to guess Ms. Giuffre’s age, and Ms. Giuffre wrote that Andrew, then 41, guessed correctly at 17.

He said he was paid $15,000 for “serving the man the tabloids call ‘Randy Andy’.”

The Independent’s political correspondent Caitlin Doherty reports:

The SNP tabled a motion in the early hours calling for “the Government to take legal steps to remove the dukedom granted to Prince Andrew”.

As of Tuesday morning, the motion has 13 supporters, all of whom are SNP or Plaid Cymru MPs.

Early day motions are introduced for debate in the House of Commons, but there is no set date for them and as a result very few are debated in the House.

However, it is a way for MPs to register their views on a particular issue.

According to the parliament’s website, “they can be used to demonstrate the level of parliamentary support for a particular cause or point of view by attracting the signatures of other MPs.”