Would Virginia Giuffre view Prince Andrew’s title surrender as a victory?

WEB DESK: Prince Andrew’s decision to give up his royal titles would have felt like “a victory” to Virginia Giuffre, the woman whose allegations against him helped end his public life, her co-author Amy Wallace told the BBC recently.

Giuffre, who died by suicide six months ago, lays out in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl her encounters with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and her claims that Andrew had sex with her on three occasions, allegations the prince still denies.

Wallace, who spent four years writing the book with Giuffre, said the disgraced royal’s recent decision to stop using his titles, including Duke of York, and to give up his membership in the Order of the Garter, was “a symbolic gesture”, but one that made “modern royal history.”

“I can speak for Virginia, she would have viewed it as a victory that he was forced, by whatever means, to give them up,” Wallace told BBC Newsnight, adding that the move reflects how Andrew’s “life is being eroded because of his past behaviour, as it should be.”

Prince Andrew, once known for his pomp and privilege, is now more famous for his disastrous BBC interview and a settlement that couldn’t buy him back public respect. Wallace said he still has a chance to “do something meaningful” by cooperating with U.S. investigators , something he once promised but “was never available” to do.

In Nobody’s Girl, Giuffre describes Epstein’s private jets as “flying trafficking agents,” adding that Andrew flew on at least one. The book paints a chilling portrait of wealth, power and predation, and of a royal who, despite losing his titles, has yet to confront the full measure of his disgrace.