Prince Andrew told to leave public life for ever after embarrassing royals: Latest

Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s father, has denied his late daughter’s accusation and said in a statement included in her book, Nobody’s Girl, that he “never knew what was going on with Epstein” until he read about his sex crimes online.

In an interview with NBC News, her brother, Sky Roberts Jr, said that he had confronted their father about the allegation, choking up as he recalled: “I just, I said – we know,” he recalled, choking up.

“I mean, you were Dad. You sexually abused your daughter. It’s absolutely heinous what he did.”

He also remembered his father buying “decently nice things” at various points in their childhood, including a boat. He added: “If there was a payment wired to him, like it would, would be disgusting, be disgusting that he accepted money.”

The Met refused to open an investigation into sworn allegations of sexual assault against Prince Andrew, despite keenly investigating cause celebres such as Partygate. Their insistence that the royal family are not above the law rings hollow, says Nigel Cawthorne:

Cabinet minister Peter Kyle has said that anyone who knows anything about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, including Prince Andrew, should fully cooperate with investigators to help deliver justice for the victims.

“I think anybody that has any information that could bring justice and information to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes should be fully engaging with any of the authorities that are seeking to deliver that information and justice for the victims,” Mr Kyle told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

“So of course, anybody, anywhere that has information that can deliver that justice should be sharing it openly.

“I believe that Andrew, in the past, has said that he would co-operate, and I urge him to stick to his word on that.”

“She wanted all her suffering to have accomplished something,” writes Amy Wallace, Virginia Giuffre’s collaborator, at the beginning of her bombshell posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl.

But what is known, from reading the 400-page diary-style book, is that Giuffre, who died by suicide aged 41 in April this year, was determined to tell her story of how power, corruption and alleged sex abuse colluded to leave victims, like her, scarred after years of alleged abuse.

As the book is published, The Independent looks at the biggest revelations:

Virginia Giuffre’s co-author Amy Wallace has urged Prince Andrew to share what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Ms Wallace told BBC Newsnight that there was a time when Prince Andrew “indicated he was willing to help investigators in the US” but he was “never available, for some reason”.

“That’s something he could still do,” Ms Wallace said.

She added: “He could say, as he has repeatedly, ‘I still deny that I was involved… however, I was in these houses and I was on that island and I was on the jet and I saw things, and I know how much these women have suffered and I would like to share what I saw’.”

Giuffre has claimed that Prince Andrew had sex with her on three different occasions, but the King’s brother has denied all wrongdoing.

Giuffre, 41, died by suicide in April this year while working on the book with co-author Amy Wallace. Released Tuesday, Nobody’s Girl explores in often harrowing detail how Giuffre was subjected to abuse by the rich and powerful and how she fought for justice.

The book’s release comes as President Donald Trump remains under intense pressure to release all of the U.S. government’s files on Epstein.

Here’s a look at some of the key questions Giuffre asks in her book that, for now, remain unanswered:

Prince Andrew has lived rent-free at Royal Lodge, a 30-room Windsor mansion, under a 75-year lease signed in 2003 with the Crown Estate.

Instead of paying annual rent, he made upfront payments of about £8m for renovations and future rent – effectively buying out his lease, BBC reported.

The deal allows him to stay without ongoing rent but requires him to maintain the property.

Prince Andrew’s rent is described as a “peppercorn”, which is a token sum, such as £1 a year, often used in long leases as a symbolic legal payment rather than a commercial one.

Pressure is mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-room mansion after it emerged he has paid a “peppercorn rent” on the property for more than 20 years.

Senior Tory Robert Jenrick said it was “about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private” as “the public are sick of him”.

Parliamentary committees could also look into the Crown Estate’s handling of Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence in Windsor Great Park.

The campaign group Republic has, meanwhile, demanded a “full, unrelenting investigation” into royal links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and efforts to protect Andrew.

Protesters from the anti-monarchy group unveiled banners reading “End Royal Secrecy” and “What are you hiding? Royal Epstein Inquiry Now” outside the gates of Royal Lodge.

Four out of five Britons believe Prince Andrew should be formally stripped of his dukedom, according to a new poll.

It comes as calls intensify for the King’s brother to vacate his Royal Lodge residence.

The prince’s association with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has recently resurfaced in headlines, with renewed attention on the allegations made by his sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, which Andrew denies, following the release of her posthumous memoirs.

Senior Conservative MP Robert Jenrick commented that it was “about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private” as “the public are sick of him,” particularly after it emerged Andrew has paid a “peppercorn rent” for his 30-room home for over two decades.

Many in Parliament would be unlikely to “disagree” with stripping Prince Andrew of his royal title, an SNP MP has said.

The SNP is putting forward a motion to pressure Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to strip Andrew of the title, which would require an Act of Parliament.

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme, the SNP’s Stephen Gethins said stripping Andrew of his title would be “a good thing to do”.

He said: “I think he needs to give them up the way you formally give them up I’m afraid as an Act of Parliament. I’m not sure there would be many people in Parliament who would disagree with that.

“This is a move that you can strip that away, if that gives some relief to the victims I think that is a good thing to do.”