London: King Charles has found a way to shield the royal family from each new revelation about Prince Andrew after years of damage to the monarchy.

But the new arrangements do not protect Andrew from his personal history – and he is about to be swamped by a wave of claims from the past.

Prince Andrew with Virginia Roberts Giuffre (centre) in 2001 and Epstein’s then personal assistant Ghislaine Maxwell.Credit:

The new memoir from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, to be published on Tuesday, gives a detailed account of her relations with the prince when she was 17 and caught up in the world of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The core allegations have been put to Andrew before, and he has denied them. He did this again in his brief statement on Friday when giving up the use of his titles. “As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me,” he said.

Andrew did not specify the allegations. But Giuffre does. She sets them out in the new book, co-written with Amy Wallace, so the public can read and hear her story.

‘Back at the house, Maxwell and Epstein said goodnight and headed upstairs, signalling it was time that I take care of the prince. In the years since, I’ve thought a lot about how he behaved.’

Adding to the pain of her account is that we know it ends in great suffering. Giuffre died by her own hand in Western Australia in April this year, aged 41. Her memoir becomes her final testimony about Epstein, who died by suicide in a US jail in 2019, and the woman who was convicted in court of enabling him, Ghislaine Maxwell.

It also becomes her most important account, for the record, about the man who has been cut loose from Buckingham Palace.

Giuffre tells of being recruited for Epstein, when she was 16 and Maxwell saw her walking to work at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. Maxwell asked her if she was interested in massage work. That night, she introduced her to Epstein. It........

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