68 m. ago The Guardian view on the price of a prince: what Virginia Giuffre’s story says about palace accountability | Editorial

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exposed a constitutional blind spot: royal privilege remains beyond democratic scrutiny. MPs must be able to question powerThe tragic story of Virginia Giuffre raises the question of who governs when royal privilege and public outrage collide. As a vulnerable teenager she was drawn into a world of sexual exploitation by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Giuffre alleged that Epstein trafficked her and that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17. He has denied all the claims. Despite previously insisting he had no memory of meeting her, the prince reportedly paid £12m to settle her civil case in 2022. The money was said to have come from his mother, the late queen – who, just six weeks later, was photographed walking beside him at her husband’s memorial service.With a posthumous memoir, Ms Giuffre has brought the issue back into the spotlight. In his calamitous 2019 Newsnight interview,...

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71 m. ago Prince Andrew's 'team' tried to hire 'online trolls to hassle' Giuffre, memoir claims

Virginia Giuffre has made a number of claims in her posthumous memoirs, titled Nobody's Girl, which is being published on Tuesday

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1 hour ago Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims

Andrew hid behind Balmoral’s ‘guarded gates’ to escape court papers, accuser says in memoir Nobody’s GirlPrince Andrew’s team tried to hire “internet trolls to hassle” his accuser, Virginia Giuffre, while he hid behind the “well-guarded gates” of Balmoral Castle to avoid being served court papers, according to allegations in her posthumous memoir.Giuffre wrote of the 2022 confidential settlement of her sexual abuse civil claim against the royal, widely rumoured to be $12m, that her lawyers “were going to ask for the moon” and her team had agreed it “had to be more than mere money”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Buckingham Palace makes huge update after Prince Andrew relinquishes title

Buckingham Palace has updated the official Royal Family website to show Prince Andrew giving up his Duke of York title, amid growing calls to remove it formally

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2 h. ago Beatrice shows the strain on visit to her father Andrew in Windsor's Royal Lodge as he hunkers down after losing titles and facing Met probe

Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are holed up in their grand grace-and-favour Royal Lodge as Virginia Giuffre's bombshell book hit the shelves 24 hours early.

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4 h. ago Prince Andrew's Duke of York title axed from royal website as Virginia Giuffre memoir claims 'his team tried to hire trolls to hassle her'

The royal website has been updated to reflect the loss of his dukedom

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4 h. ago Beatrice shows the strain on visit to her father Andrew in Windsor's Royal Lodge as he's hunkers down after losing titles and facing Met probe

Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are holed up in their grand grace-and-favour Royal Lodge as Virginia Giuffre's bombshell book hit the shelves 24 hours early.

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4 h. ago Sarah Ferguson changes social media handle and Prince Andrew's Duke of York title is scrubbed from the Royal family's website

The Royal Family's official website has been updated to reflect the loss of his dukedom and other honours over the Epstein sex scandal.

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4 h. ago Prince Andrew’s team tried to hire internet trolls to hassle me, Virginia Giuffre claims in bombshell memoir

The new allegations, which claim the prince and his team tried to ‘cast doubt on her credibility’, appear in a harrowing account of her life, published tomorrow

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5 h. ago Prince Andrew’s legal team tried to hire internet trolls to hassle me, Virginia Giuffre claims in bombshell memoir

The new allegations, which claim the prince and his team tried to ‘case doubt on her credibility’ appear in a harrowing account of her life, published tomorrow

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5 h. ago Prince Andrew's Duke of York title is scrubbed from the Royal family's website

The Royal Family's official website has been updated to reflect the loss of his dukedom and other honours over the Epstein sex scandal.

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5 h. ago Buckingham Palace makes huge change after Prince Andrew gives up title

Buckingham Palace has finally changed the official Royal Family website to reflect Prince Andrew giving up his Duke of York title as calls grow for him to be formally stripped of his Dukedom

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6 h. ago UK royals and government face pressure to formally strip Prince Andrew of his titles

Prince Andrew has renounced his titles, including Duke of York, after discussions with King Charles III

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8 h. ago Prince Andrew latest: Giuffre claims Andrew’s team tried to hire internet trolls to hassle her in memoir

Prince Andrew facing fresh scandal over his ties with Jeffrey Epstein

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8 h. ago MPs demand a law to formally strip Prince Andrew of his royal titles as Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's book is published

Andrew last week said he was giving up his Duke of York title and honours to prevent the scandal surrounding him distracting from the work of King Charles .

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9 h. ago Andrew’s ‘team’ tried to hire ‘internet trolls to hassle’ sex accuser – memoir

The former duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.

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10 h. ago Change the rules so King can strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, MP says

The York Central MP said the monarch should be given the power to permanently strip royals of their titles

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44 h. ago Andrew told Met to dig up dirt on Virginia Giuffre: Police launch probe as email reveals he procured private data for smear campaign

A bombshell email exposes how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre and passed him her date of birth and confidential social security number.

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45 h. ago The unexpected royal set for Duke of York title after Prince Andrew scandal

Prince Andrew has relinquished all of his remaining royal titles, including his Duke of York title

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45 h. ago Queen Camilla puts on united Royal front at Ascot after Prince Andrew loses titles

Following Prince Andrew's statement saying he would relinquish his Duke of York title and remaining honours, Queen Camilla and Zara Tindall have been pictured at Ascot

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