{"id":40211,"date":"2025-10-31T05:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=40211"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:20:58","slug":"cy9pn12w4n8oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/cy9pn12w4n8oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Giuffre&#8217;s family celebrate Andrew&#8217;s &#8216;prince&#8217; title being stripped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The family of the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse,  have celebrated his title of &#8216;prince&#8217; being stripped from him as a victory which is &#8220;unprecedented in history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;This normal girl from a normal family has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her,&#8221; Sky Roberts, Giuffre&#8217;s brother, told BBC Newsnight through tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">But Mr Roberts told the BBC removing his title was &#8220;not enough&#8221; and called for an investigation into Andrew, adding that he &#8220;needs to be behind bars&#8221;. Andrew has denied all claims against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Giuffre took her own life earlier this year. The publication of her posthumous memoirs this month intensified pressure on the Royal Family over Andrew&#8217;s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that King Charles III had initiated a formal process to &#8220;remove the style, titles and honours&#8221; of Prince Andrew, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Asked how Giuffre might have responded to that decision, her brother said: &#8220;She is celebrating from the heavens now saying &#8216;I did it&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;She&#8217;d be so proud. He&#8217;s just Andrew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In her memoir, Giuffre &#8211; a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein &#8211; alleged Andrew had sex with her three times as a teenager and that he &#8220;believed that having sex with me was his birthright.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Andrew, who has denied the allegations, reached an out-of-court settlement with Giuffre in 2022 which contained no admission of liability or apology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It truly is a moment for her and all survivors,&#8221; Giuffre&#8217;s sister-in-law Amanda Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Everything she fought for was not in vain,&#8221; she added, noting that she &#8220;broke down&#8221; when she heard the news at work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">While the pair celebrated what they described as a moment of &#8220;victory&#8221;, Giuffre&#8217;s brother also stressed it was &#8220;not enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We have to have some sort of investigation that goes further into this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;[Andrew is] still walking around a free man. He needs to be behind bars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Earlier this month, Andrew voluntarily gave up several royal titles including the Duke of York, saying &#8220;we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The King&#8217;s decision to strip Andrew of his title of &#8216;prince&#8217; follows the emergence this month of emails from 2011 that showed Andrew had maintained contact with Epstein, despite claiming otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Giuffre&#8217;s family also addressed the implications of the King&#8217;s decision for the US, where calls have grown for the release of documents related to Epstein. Partial records have been released that named Andrew as a passenger on a flight with Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><b id=\"&quot;\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 gnUCoQ\">&#8220;<\/b>The US government hold the key to the larger scope of the Jeffrey Epstein case,&#8221; Mr Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The UK is setting an example for what the US should be doing right now.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;There&#8217;s many more of them, I promise you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Virginia #Giuffres #family #celebrate #Andrews #prince #title #stripped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, have celebrated his title of &#8216;prince&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40213,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40211\/revisions\/40213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}