{"id":2102666,"date":"2025-10-19T23:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2102666"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:18:23","slug":"royals-face-further-embarrassment-as-virginia-giuffres-memoir-to-go-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-face-further-embarrassment-as-virginia-giuffres-memoir-to-go-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals face further embarrassment as Virginia Giuffre\u2019s memoir to go on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM dRzeRr\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM knvhy\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM kbCQAZ\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/morningHeadlines1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morning Headlines\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prince Andrew and the royal family could face further embarrassment, with the imminent publication of Virginia Giuffre\u2019s memoir in the week that the King is to pray with the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police said they would look into claims in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mail-on-sunday\">Mail on Sunday<\/a> that Andrew had passed Ms Giuffre\u2019s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>He is also said to have emailed the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s then-deputy press secretary and told him of his request to his protection officer, and also suggested Ms Giuffre had a criminal record.<\/p>\n<p>A Met spokeswoman said: \u201cWe are aware of media reporting and are actively looking into the claims made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The allegations are the latest to emerge against the prince, who relinquished his dukedom and other honours on Friday, after excerpts from the posthumous autobiography of Ms Giuffre were released.<\/p>\n<p>The book is to be published on Tuesday, a day before Charles begins a state visit to the Holy See, during which he will become the first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/british\">British<\/a> monarch to pray at a public service with the Pope since the Reformation.<\/p>\n<p>Charles, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church, will pray together during an ecumenical service in the Sistine Chapel, a symbolic moment of the continuing dialogue between their two churches.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day visit to the Holy See, the government of the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican, is understood to be deeply significant for the King personally and will celebrate the papal jubilee held every 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>A report in The Sunday Times suggested that the\u00a0Prince\u00a0of Wales was \u201cnot satisfied\u201d with the decision concerning Andrew\u2019s titles.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper suggested William intended to take a \u201cmore ruthless\u201d approach to his disgraced uncle, and would ban him from his future coronation.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood, however, that the King and William are in lockstep over how to deal with the former duke.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, still a prince and living in the 30-bedroom Royal Lodge mansion, issued a statement in his own words on Friday in which he said he was giving up his Duke of York title and honours, to prevent distracting from the work of the monarch and the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Giuffre\u2019s brother, Sky Roberts, has urged the King to go further and strip Andrew of his right to be a prince.<\/p>\n<p>Charles is said to have acted, in consultation with William, Andrew and the royal family, on Friday, after it emerged Andrew had emailed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> in 2011 saying \u201cwe\u2019re in this together\u201d, three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with him.<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Ed Miliband told Sky News\u2019 Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips the Government would be guided by the royal family on any formal action to remove Andrew\u2019s titles.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think it\u2019s really important as a Government minister, that we allow the royal family to make decisions on these questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also described the claims that\u00a0Andrew\u00a0wanted his bodyguard to smear Ms Giuffre as \u201cdeeply concerning allegations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the then-Duke of York paid millions to accuser Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case, despite claiming never to have met her.<\/p>\n<p>In Ms Giuffre\u2019s posthumous memoirs, she wrote that Andrew insisted she sign a one-year gag order after their settlement, to prevent tarnishing the late Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bbc\">BBC<\/a>, which obtained a copy of the book, said that Ms Giuffre also says she \u201cwas habitually used and humiliated\u201d after being trafficked to \u201cscores of wealthy, powerful people\u201d, and she added: \u201cI believed that I might die a sex slave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also described how Andrew\u2019s disastrous Newsnight interview was like an \u201cinjection of jet fuel\u201d for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of \u201csubpoenaing\u201d his former wife Sarah, and daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, and drawing them into the legal case, The Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Giuffre said she got \u201cmore out of\u201d Andrew than a reported 12 million US dollar pay-out and two million dollar donation to her charity, because she had \u201can acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The prince\u2019s 2019 Newsnight interview, which he hoped would clear his name, backfired when he said he \u201cdid not regret\u201d his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein, who trafficked Ms Giuffre.<\/p>\n<p>He was heavily criticised for failing to show sympathy with the sex offender\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew also said he had \u201cno recollection\u201d of ever meeting Ms Giuffre, and said he could not have had sex with her in March 2001 because he was at Pizza Express with Beatrice on the day in question.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Giuffre alleged, which\u00a0Andrew\u00a0vehemently denies, that she was forced to have sex with the\u00a0prince\u00a0on three occasions, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein.<\/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 www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Prince Andrew and the royal family could face further 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