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Andrew‘s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will no longer use the title of Duchess of York, but Andrew’s daughters Beatrice and Eugenie will continue to be princesses.
Andrew has become a burden to his brother Charles after a 2019 television interview with the British public broadcaster BBC, in which Andrew defended his friendship with Epstein, who committed suicide in a federal detention center in New York in August 2019 without awaiting trial.
Andrew also said in this interview that in 2010 he cut ties with Epstein, who fell into disrepute after American Virginia Giuffre claimed that Epstein used her as a sex slave.
In February 2022, Andrew, a former Royal Navy helicopter pilot, settled a US civil case in which Giuffre alleged that Andrew, at Epstein’s instigation, sexually assaulted her when she was 17.
Britain’s then-Queen Elizabeth II revoked all of Andrew’s honorary military titles and patronages soon after in 2022, cutting him out of the royal family’s public life.
Andrew has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual abuse and even insisted he never met Juffre, who committed suicide on April 25 at his farm in Western Australia.
New news emerged this week in Giuffre’s memoir, in which she wrote that Andrew treated her as if sex with her were the prince’s “birthright”.
Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, will be published next week. The author wrote in them that she had sex with Andrew on three separate occasions, including before reaching the age of 18.
Andrew has repeatedly denied Giuffre’s allegations and avoided a civil lawsuit by paying millions of dollars in a settlement.
