- King Charles strips Prince Andrew of titles and evicts him after Virginia Giuffre's memoir renews Epstein scrutiny.
- Giuffre's family demands U.S. accountability, urging declassification of Epstein files and possible prosecution, including pressure on Trump.
- The memoir reignites global outrage, pushing calls for investigations into powerful associates and renewed scrutiny of sealed evidence.
LONDON/WASHINGTON — In a move that has sent shockwaves through Buckingham Palace and beyond, King Charles III has stripped his disgraced brother, Prince Andrew, of his royal titles and evicted him from his lavish Windsor estate, effectively turning the once-high-profile royal into a private citizen known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
The decision, announced Thursday amid fresh scrutiny from the posthumous memoir of one of Andrew’s most outspoken accusers, Virginia Giuffre, marks a dramatic fall from grace for the 85-year-old, whose ties to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have long haunted the British monarchy.
But for Giuffre’s family, the king’s action is just the beginning.
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Speaking out in a series of emotional interviews, her brother Sky Roberts and sister-in-law Amanda Roberts have hailed the development as a “victory” for survivors while issuing a pointed challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump: It’s time to “put on your big boy pants” and release the long-withheld Epstein files.
Their comments, delivered on CNN and Sky News, underscore a growing transatlantic push for accountability in a scandal that has ensnared elites on both sides of the Atlantic for over two decades.
“This is the right step and, yes, the U.K. is showing us the way,” Sky Roberts told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night, his voice steady but laced with the weight of unresolved grief.
Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at age 41 after years of advocacy, had accused Andrew of sexually abusing her three times as a teenager after being trafficked by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Andrew Denies Allegations but Settles for Millions
Andrew has consistently denied the allegations, and the two settled a civil lawsuit in 2022 for an undisclosed sum—reportedly around £12 million—without any admission of liability.
Roberts, a soft-spoken Australian who has become the family’s public voice since Giuffre’s death, didn’t mince words about what comes next.
“We have to have some sort of investigation that goes further into this,” he said on BBC Newsnight, fighting back tears as he praised his sister’s courage. “This normal girl from a normal family has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her.”
He added that Andrew “needs to be behind bars” if the claims are substantiated, echoing calls from victims’ advocates for U.S. authorities to pursue extradition now that the former prince lacks diplomatic protections.
The family’s statement, released hours after the palace announcement, captured the bittersweet tone: “Virginia Roberts Giuffre, our sister, a child when she was sexually assaulted by Andrew, never stopped fighting for accountability for what had happened to her and countless other survivors like her. Today, she declares a victory.”
Yet they vowed to press on, saying they “will not rest until the same accountability applies to all of her abusers and abettors, connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Giuffre’s story, laid bare in her recently published memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, has reignited global interest in the Epstein saga.
The book, released earlier this month, details her recruitment at 16 while working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Epstein and Maxwell allegedly spotted her and lured her into a web of abuse.
In one chilling passage, Giuffre recounts being pressured into sexual encounters with powerful men, including Andrew, and questions the official narrative of Epstein’s 2019 jailhouse death: “Could it be that someone who feared exposure by Epstein had found a way to exterminate him?” she wrote, referencing a 2023 inspector general’s report that upheld the suicide ruling but highlighted jail mismanagement.
That memoir appears to have been the tipping point for the royal family. Palace sources cited “consistent embarrassment” from Andrew’s Epstein links, including newly surfaced 2011 emails where the prince told the financier “we are in this together” just a day after an infamous photo of Andrew with Giuffre surfaced.
Andrew, now 85 and reportedly holed up in a more modest royal property, remains eighth in line to the throne despite the demotion—a fact that has drawn criticism from anti-monarchy groups but praise from survivors.
Trump Administration Now Under the Spotlight
Across the ocean, the Giuffre family’s gaze has firmly turned to Washington. Roberts has repeatedly urged the FBI to act on evidence his sister handed over years ago, including documents about Epstein’s hidden cameras allegedly used to blackmail high-profile associates.
“I can tell you that my sister handed over her own documents to the FBI,” he told Collins. “They have them in possession… It’s time for us to use reverse psychology here and have our FBI, our very own justice system, unlock that little box.”
The target? President Trump, whose decades-long friendship with Epstein has been a lightning rod. The two partied together in the 1990s and early 2000s, with Trump once calling Epstein a “terrific guy” who liked “beautiful women… on the younger side.”
Flight logs show Trump flew on Epstein’s plane at least once, though he claims no trips to the financier’s infamous island.
Their falling out reportedly came around 2004, after Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago over an alleged incident involving a member’s underage daughter.
Trump’s reluctance to fully declassify Epstein-related documents—despite campaign promises in 2024 to do so—has frustrated even some in his own MAGA base.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch Trump ally, publicly broke ranks over the summer, joining Epstein victims outside the Capitol to demand transparency.
In September 2024, Trump reiterated his intent during a podcast, saying he’d “take a look at” releasing the files, but a July 2025 Justice Department memo closed the book on further probes into Epstein’s death, citing no evidence of foul play.
The family’s frustration boiled over in August, when Trump casually remarked that Epstein had “stole” Giuffre from her Mar-a-Lago job. “She wasn’t stolen, she was preyed upon at his property, at President Trump’s property,” Sky Roberts shot back on CNN, his voice cracking.
Amanda Roberts added that the comment reduced survivors to “objects,” questioning “how much he knew during that time.”
The White House dismissed the uproar, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisting Trump was merely responding to a reporter’s question about “stolen” workers.
Adding to the pressure, six Epstein accusers—including Giuffre’s relatives—gathered on Capitol Hill in September to renew calls for full disclosure and explicitly urged Trump not to pardon Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.
Maxwell, transferred to a low-security facility in Texas after cooperating with federal investigators, has appealed her conviction but faces long odds. Trump has waffled on clemency, saying in 2024 he’d “have to look into it.”
Roberts hasn’t stopped at Trump. In interviews this week, he’s implored King Charles to lean on the president personally. “He should put pressure on President Trump… tell President Trump ‘put your big boy pants on’, and let’s get these Epstein files released so that we can go after these monsters properly,” Roberts told Sky News’ Gareth Barlow.
He and Amanda expressed openness to a meeting with the king, with Sky saying, “I welcome that conversation with open arms. I would love the opportunity to tell my sister’s story to the palace.”
The Implications of Releasing the Files May Be Huge
The Epstein case has seen incremental progress in recent years, but much remains sealed. Court documents from Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against Maxwell—unsealed in stages through early 2024—named associates like Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz, though none faced charges.
A 2023 Wall Street Journal report revealed Epstein’s calendar included meetings with figures like CIA Director William Burns and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, all of whom denied wrongdoing.
In the U.K., the Metropolitan Police closed its probe into Giuffre’s claims against Andrew in 2021, but her family has called on the Independent Office for Police Conduct to review that decision.
As Andrew packs his bags from Royal Lodge—a 30-room mansion now off-limits—Amanda Roberts offered a message to other survivors: “We see you, we believe you, we love you, and the world is listening.”
For Sky, the fight is personal. “It’s vindication for my sister, but it’s not enough,” he said.
With Giuffre’s book climbing bestseller lists and protests—like one in July projecting Epstein’s face onto Windsor Castle during Trump’s U.K. visit—still fresh in memory, the pressure shows no signs of letting up.
In a scandal defined by power and evasion, the Roberts family’s resolve feels like a turning point.
Whether it forces open that “magical box of mystery,” as Sky put it, remains to be seen. But one thing is clear: Virginia Giuffre’s voice, even in death, refuses to be silenced.
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