PRINCE Andrew won’t ever return to a public-facing role, an expert claims – as the Royal Family braces themselves for Virginia Giuffre‘s bombshell book.
Andrew’s sex-abuse accuser Virginia is taking revenge from beyond the grave in a memoir – and the royals are likely worried about what may emerge in the book.
A photo of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell was the beginning of the end for the royal[/caption]
Andrew’s sex-abuse accuser Virginia is taking revenge from beyond the grave in a memoir[/caption]
Mum-of-three Virginia died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia in April[/caption]
The Duke of York denied they had sex[/caption]
It will see her open up for the first time since the disgraced royal paid her millions to prevent claims of sex abuse going to court.
Tragic Virginia Giuffre’s autobiography will contain “intimate and disturbing” details of her relationship with Prince Andrew.
The Duke of York denied they had sex. A source said: “This is her ultimate revenge.”
Royal expert Hugo Vickers told The Sun that Prince Andrew will probably just “get on with his quiet life” but the Royal Family won’t be happy.
The publication of Harry’s book Spare put the Firm in the spotlight in a major way – and there are likely worries about this memoir.
Hugo said: “I don’t suppose that the royal family will be very pleased about it coming out.
“Prince Andrew was asked to step down from public life, and he did so, and he has remained pretty much quiet ever since. He appears occasionally at family events.
“Nobody wants him to take part in public life anymore. I’m sure he is aware of that.
“We know what we think, and he’s not going to return to public life, and there’s no question about that.”
He added: “He’s living at Royal Lodge, and people are always saying, oh, he must get out of Royal Lodge.
“I understand that the reason that he won’t leave Royal Lodge is because it makes him look guilty.
“However, it must be expensive and it would have been probably better if he had made a decision, or the Queen had made a decision, to buy him a house somewhere.”
It comes after the disgraced Duke of York, 65, confronted builders putting in traffic-slowing humps across the 4,800-acre Windsor Great Park estate.
The Sun also revealed in January 2022 that the duke shouted at his female gardener over wrongly cut trees.
Andrew has lived at Royal Lodge for more than 20 years despite efforts to evict him after he was stripped of his royal roles over his links to US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In a bid to pressure the disgraced duke to either move out of Royal Lodge or pay his own way, last year King Charles pulled his annual stipend.
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Sun, Andrew’s former maid Charlotte Briggs said he swore at her over a pair of heavy curtains.
Hugo said the Epstein scandal turned Andrew from “one of the busiest working members of the royal family” to someone who “nobody wants”.
“Because of that ill-fated interview, nobody wants him anymore.
“Simple as that.”
Mum-of-three Virginia died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia in April.
She had finished writing the book more than a year ago but it was believed to have been held back amid concerns over her health.
Nobody’s Girl, due to be published in October, lays bare how she was trafficked for sex as a teenager by the powerful US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his Brit madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
She finished writing the book more than a year ago but it was believed to have been held back amid concerns over her health[/caption]
Inside Prince Andrew’s ‘crumbling’ Royal Lodge
THE disgraced Duke of York resides at the £30million Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire – at least for now.
King Charles has redoubled his efforts to evict the Duke – with insiders branding the stand-off the “siege of Royal Lodge“.
Despite his divorce from Sarah Ferguson in 1996, Prince Andrew lives with his ex-wife at the countryside estate.
Prince Andrew‘s royal residence, with its eye-catching white exterior, boasts 30 rooms with plenty of space for entertaining, plus seven bedrooms spread across the two topmost floors.
The Duke of York is said to spend all day “watching TV in a dark room” like a prisoner at his “crumbling” home.
Royal Lodge is said to “need extensive repairs”, thought to be about £400,000 a year.
The monarch is said to be becoming increasingly frustrated at Andrew’s refusal to care for the colossal mansion.
Andrew is said to have promised King Charles he would take care of its expensive repairs – despite having no apparent source of income.
And it will heap more woe on Andrew, who was banished from the Royal Family’s trip to church yesterday.
He was seen driving away from Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands hours before the family gathered at nearby Crathie Kirk.
A draft of a 139-page unpublished memoir — The Billionaire’s Playboy Club — was released by a US judge in August 2020 during Giuffre’s lawsuit against Epstein’s former partner Maxwell.
It was not known if any fresh allegations against Prince Andrew are revealed in the manuscript.
The Duke of York, who denies he had sex with Virginia when she was just 17, paid millions to her in a 2022 out-of-court settlement without admissions.
It is thought they also agreed a 12-month gagging clause.
In a press release, US publishing house Knopf revealed she had been working on Nobody’s Girl with author-journalist Amy Wallace over a period of four years and had completed the manuscript for the 400-page book before her death.
Its statement included an email from Virginia to Wallace a few weeks before she died, saying it was her “heartfelt wish” that the memoir be released “regardless” of her circumstances.
The email reads: “The content of this book is crucial, as it aims to shed light on the systemic failures that allow the trafficking of vulnerable individuals across borders.
“It is imperative that the truth is understood and that the issues surrounding this topic are addressed, both for the sake of justice and awareness.
“In the event of my passing, I would like to ensure that Nobody’s Girl is still released. I believe it has the potential to impact many lives and foster necessary discussions about these grave injustices.”
Virginia was hospitalised after a serious accident on March 24.
She sent the email on April 1 and died weeks later on April 25.
Knopf said the book contains “intimate, disturbing, and heartbreaking new details about her time with Epstein, Maxwell and their many well-known friends, including Prince Andrew, about whom she speaks publicly for the first time since their out-of-court settlement in 2022”.
Knopf editor-in-chief Jordan Pavlin added: “In Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Roberts Giuffre reclaims her voice and life story with authority, courage, and piercing honesty. In these intimately rendered pages, she charts her journey from victim to passionate advocate for herself and anyone reckoning with sexual abuse.
“Nobody’s Girl offers a raw and shocking record of the depravity she was subjected to within Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s orbit and tells the story of a fierce spirit struggling to break free.
“No one who reads this book will forget Giuffre’s fortitude or resilience.”
The book will be published in hardback and as an ebook by Knopf and in audio by Penguin Random House — the same publishers behind Prince Harry’s shock memoir Spare.
A first US print run of 250,000 copies is scheduled to go on sale from October 21.
In a statement after her death, Virginia was described by her family as “a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse”.
But they said the “toll of abuse became unbearable”. The statement went on: “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”
Virginia previously alleged she was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein from the age of 16.
The convicted paedophile was pals with the Duke of York — who hosted Epstein during visits to Balmoral and Sandringham.
Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial on sex- trafficking charges.
Virginia alleged the Duke of York had sexually assaulted her on three occasions when she was under the age of 18.
Andrew denied having sex with her and said he has no recollection of a photo of the pair together being taken in London. He originally planned to fight the civil sex assault lawsuit in a US court.
Days later, in January 2022, the late Queen summoned her son to Windsor Castle and stripped him of his titles and royal roles.
The Duke was told there was no way back amid the scandal.
Andrew is thought to fill his time with horse riding and golf[/caption]
Virginia previously alleged she was the victim of sex trafficking and abuse by Epstein from the age of 16[/caption]
Virginia Giuffre shared a worrying photo of herself from her hospital bed covered in bruises she had apparently sustained from a speeding bus crash[/caption]
