Prince Andrew Gives Up Royal Titles Ahead Of Jeffrey Epstein Memoir

Five years after Queen Elizabeth II insisted the scandal plagued Prince Andrew “stand back from public life,” the oldest brother of King Charles II today has relinquished all his royal titles – kind of.

While he will no longer be the Duke of York, he will still be known as Prince Andrew – a title since birth. Important to note, Andrew has not been formally stripped of the various titles, or his “HRH,” but, in today’s mothballing, he will not use them in the future.

As a posthumous memoir from Prince Andrew and Donald Trump pal Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre is set to be released on October 21, the aristocratic Brit put out a short statement announcing his new so-called self-demoted status. Note the lack of anything approaching an apology:

There has been no statement from Buckingham Palace on Andrew’s new title status. Yet, as his circumspect brother King Charles and King-to-be Prince William would have surely played a large role in the move to push Andrew further off centerstage.

In excerpts from her Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting For Justice book, Giuffre bluntly details how the presently imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell drew her into Epstein’s world after a meeting at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago. She claims that world became a rotating door of sex with rich men at Epstein and Maxwell’s discretion. While Giuffre spoke of working for Trump, who has been actively suppressing information about his close ties to Epstein, and meeting him repeatedly as she was part of Epstein’s circle, she never alleged sexual abuse from the former Apprentice host.

Seen in photos with Prince Andrew (who has long denied the claims of having sex with her and the extent of his friendship with party pal Epstein), Giuffre writes in her book that at their first time together in 2001 the royal “believed having sex with me was his birthright.” 

“The next morning, Maxwell told me: ‘You did well. The prince had fun.’ Epstein would give me $15,000 for servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy.’”

Failing to get Giuffre’s 2021 lawsuit dismissed, Prince Andrew settled with her in 2022 with a payment to various charities – a move that wreaked of guilt by any other name. Additionally, Andrew’s Epstein denials, especially his disastrous 2019 sit-down with then BBC Newsnight reporter Emily Maitlis, have been the subject of Netflix’s 2024 Scoop film, with Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell, and the same year, Amazon’s A Very Royal Scandal, starring Ruth Wilson and Michael Sheen.

Giuffre died on April 25, 2025 in an apparent suicide.

Andrew has long untruthfully sworn he “cut off” ties with Epstein in the early 2000s as accusations and charges were made against the pedophile financier.

However, “vigorously” denying once again the accusations Friday, Andrew’s long interviews with the likes of the BBC on the subject of Epstein over the years have been contradicted by correspondence and more. A similar fate has been met by Andrew’s ex-wife over when she actually ended her relationship with Epstein – with emails presenting a very different timeline.

To that, while the former couple’s daughters will maintain their Princess titles, the now former Duchess of York will simply go by Sarah Ferguson.

Long ensnared in his long relationship with the now deceased Epstein, who supposedly committed suicide while in police custody in 2019, Andrew has become a public pariah to his image-conscious family since his mother’s death in 2022. Along with the constant stain of Epstein, Prince Andrew was caught in a photograph socializing with Cai Qi, an individual at the core of a now shuttered Chinese spy scandal that has captivated the UK Parliament.

As the news of Andrew’s de-titling broke, only the BBC went to live coverage.

CNN, Fox News and MSNBC stayed on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s latest visit to the White House in search of further weapons from Trump.