{"id":2098705,"date":"2025-10-17T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2098705"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:47:16","slug":"prince-andrew-surrenders-royal-titles-amid-explosive-giuffre-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-andrew-surrenders-royal-titles-amid-explosive-giuffre-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew surrenders royal titles amid explosive Giuffre memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew will <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/news-and-activity\/2025-10-17\/a-statement-by-prince-andrew\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:no longer be referred to as the Duke of York;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">no longer be referred to as the Duke of York<\/a> in light of his association with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and amid the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/15\/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-abuse-epstein-maxwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:upcoming release of an explosive memoir;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">upcoming release of an explosive memoir<\/a> from abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIn discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family,\u201d King Charles younger brother wrote in a statement from Buckingham Palace posted Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first,\u201d the disgraced Royal said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 65-year-old rival said in 2019 that he would <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/20\/world\/europe\/prince-andrew-quits-epstein.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:distance himself from public life;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">distance himself from public life<\/a> while investigations into Epstein\u2019s misdeeds continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWith His Majesty\u2019s agreement, we feel I must now go a step further,\u201d Andrew said Friday. \u201cI will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me. As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/15\/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-abuse-epstein-maxwell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:book soon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">book soon<\/a> to be released posthumously by late Epstein accuser Giuffre details her claims of being trafficked to powerful men including Andrew, according to an excerpt reported on by the Guardian Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Giuffre died by suicide on April 25. Her lawyers obtained a settlement from Prince Andrew in 2022, though he denies wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Times of London reported Friday that King Charles was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/king-charles-prince-andrew-duke-york-title-news-hlcgmjlwb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cconsidering all options\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cconsidering all options\u201d<\/a> in terms of dealing with his sibling\u2019s alleged transgressions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">_____<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Prince Andrew will no longer be referred to as the Duke of York in light of his association with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and amid the upcoming release of an explosive memoir from abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre. \u201cIn discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[376519,26597,396505,22942,22931,335202],"class_list":["post-2098705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-accusations","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-child-sex-offender","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-prince-andrew","tag-virginia-giuffre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prince-Andrew-surrenders-royal-titles-amid-explosive-Giuffre-memoir.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098707,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098705\/revisions\/2098707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}