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Prince Andrew leaves Windsor as royal honors removed

Prince Andrew on Thursday (January 12) had his military links and royal patronages removed, after a U.S. judge allowed a civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre accusing the prince of sexually abusing her when she was 17 to move forward.

Giuffre, also known as Virginia Roberts, sued the Duke of York in New York in 2021, claiming that he sexually assaulted and battered her.

Giuffre said Andrew forced her to have intercourse at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and Epstein's longtime associate, and at properties owned by Epstein.

Epstein, a teacher-turned-globetrotting financier, died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 at the age of 66 while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges. Maxwell, 60, was convicted on Dec. 29, 2021, of sex trafficking and other crimes.

Andrew's lawyers have called the lawsuit "baseless" and accused Giuffre of seeking a payday.