The family of Virginia Giuffre has celebrated the decision to strip the former Duke of York of his title ‘Prince’.
Yesterday, Britain’s King Charles announced that he would begin a process to "remove the style, titles and honours" of his younger brother, Andrew.
Once known as His Royal Highness The Prince Andrew, Duke of York KG, now the second son of the late Queen Elizabeth will be known only as ‘Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’.
He will also leave his palatial Royal Lodge home on the Windsor Estate and instead move to Sandringham in Norfolk.
The King said that while his brother continues to deny the allegation that he sexually abused Ms Giuffre while she was a teenager, "These censures are deemed necessary”.
Andrew in 2021. Picture by: Alamy.com.The family of Ms Giuffre, who took her own life earlier this year, said she would be “so proud”.
“She is celebrating from the heavens right now,” her brother, Sky Roberts, told the BBC.
“This normal girl, from a normal family, has taken down a prince.
“We are so proud of her.”
Victims of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein - Annie Farmer, middle, and Virginia Giuffre, right, exit Manhattan Federal Court in August 2019 in New York City. Picture by: UPI / Alamy Stock Photo / LOUIS LANZANO.On Newstalk Breakfast, London journalist Vincent McAvinney described the King’s decision as “unprecedented”.
“This is his brother, King Charles, being pretty brutal - but doing so for the sake of the whole of the Royal Family, it seems,” he said.
“Because what we were about to have is legislation travelling through Parliament, taking up a lot of time to officially remove these titles that he had.
“He was a Baron, a Duke - all of this stuff - and the Royal Family kept saying they didn’t want parliamentary time taken up by this.”
Andrew. Picture by: Alamy.com.Mr McAvinney noted that when news of the decision was announced last night during an edition of the panel show Question Time, members of the audience spontaneously began to applaud.
“A poll that came out in the past 48 hours showed that [Andrew] had a 90% disapproval from the British public,” he added.
“There’s no royal who has ever polled as low as that.”
Indeed, so strong is public aversion to Andrew that his biographer has even speculated that he and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, could be forced into exile.
Main image: Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Picture by: US Deptarment of Justice.
