The Fall of Prince Andrew: From Royalty to Stripped Titles

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Know about the dramatic downfall of Prince Andrew, the former UK prince and son of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein led to allegations from Virginia Giuffre, resulting in a legal settlement and massive public outcry. Know why King Charles III stripped Andrew of all royal titles and residence, marking an unprecedented moment in British monarchy history.   #PrinceAndrew #RoyalFamily #JeffreyEpstein #VirginiaGiuffre #KingCharlesIII #RoyalTitles #BritishMonarchy #World   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00The downfall of Andrew, formerly known as Prince, and born into a life of royal privilege as the

00:08son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, was complete on 30 October 2025, when his brother King Charles

00:17III moved to strip him of all his titles. The family of his alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre,

00:24hailed the King's decision as a victory, saying an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American

00:30family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage. It is an ignominious

00:37fate for Andrew, who had seemingly reveled in his links to convicted Jeffrey Epstein.

00:43Here's what we know so far about his fall.

00:46Andrew reportedly first met Epstein in 1999 through the late multimillionaire's girlfriend

00:57Ghislaine Maxwell. In 2008, Epstein was convicted in the United States of procuring a minor and handed

01:06an 18-month jail sentence. Despite this, the pair were photographed in 2010 walking through Central

01:13Park in New York together. Andrew claimed this was the end of their friendship.

01:19But an email to Epstein in February 2011 from a member of the British royal family, believed to

01:25be Andrew, said, keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon, according to UK court documents

01:32revealed earlier this year. Epstein took his own life in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial

01:40charges of trafficking underage girls. In August 2021, Dufresne filed a lawsuit against Andrew,

01:53alleging he sexually assaulted her three times, including twice when she was 17. In her memoir

01:59Nobody's Girl, published in October, Dufresne said she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three

02:06separate occasions, having been trafficked by Epstein. On the first occasion in March 2001,

02:13the then 41-year-old Andrew had sex with her at Maxwell's Muse house in London. Andrew was asked to

02:20guess her age. When he correctly suggested she was 17, he explained his accuracy by saying that

02:27my daughters are just a little younger than you, Dufresne recalled in her memoir.

02:32The second encounter was the following month at Epstein's garish townhouse in New York. The last

02:39time was on Epstein's private island with Andrew, Epstein, and around eight other girls who all

02:45appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn't really speak English. A letter filed to a US court in

02:52February 2022 jointly by Dufresne and Andrew's lawyers revealed they had reached an out-of-court

02:59settlement to end her civil case against him. Andrew, who made no admission of liability,

03:05agreed to pay her an undisclosed sum. The exact amount has not been revealed but was reportedly

03:12more than $12 million.

03:19Andrew stood down as a UK trade envoy in 2011 amid controversy over his ties with Epstein.

03:27In 2019, after a disastrous TV interview, he withdrew from public duties and gave up his

03:35royal highness title after denying in the interview that he had sex with Dufresne. He added that he had

03:42no recollection at all of ever meeting her. Queen Elizabeth II in January 2022 stripped him of his

03:50military titles and royal patronages after he lost his attempt to quash the civil suit filed by Dufresne in

03:582021. On October 17, Andrew agreed to give up his Duke of York title under pressure from Charles,

04:06saying he would not use it. His ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who borrowed money from Epstein, will also

04:13no longer be known as the Duchess of York. On the 30th of October 2025, amid growing public outcry, King

04:22Charles III moved to strip his younger brother of all his titles and to oust him from the royal lodge

04:28on the Windsor estate, where he had lived for two decades paying only a peppercorn rent.

04:34Dufresne took her own life in April, at the age of 41, in Australia, where she lived with her husband

04:40and three children.

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