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The United Kingdom's Prince Andrew said he will give up his Duke of York title and honors amid new questions over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender with whom he had a friendship.

The prince, who is King Charles' younger brother, said in a statement issued via Buckingham Palace that he would "no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me," NBC News reported.

He said the decision was taken "in discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family," after concluding that "the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.

"As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me," he also said.

In 2019, Andrew stepped back from public duties and returned his military affiliations and later royal patronages in January 2022, after his lawyers were unable to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse.

Later, Andrew paid a substantial sum to the late Epstein abuse survivor Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that he sexually abused her when she was 17. He has repeatedly denied the allegation.

In a posthumous memoir by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre set to be released in the coming day, she gives an expanded account about her long-standing claims to have been sexually trafficked by Epstein to billionaires, politicians and with Andrew when she was 17, acccording to CBS News.

I wish Tac was still with us to give us the UK view on this .

A good start to making something positive out of this shitty business.

Not the actions I would expect an innocent person to take.

Paying a victim he claims he never victimized?

Giving up titles/privileges, while still claiming innocence?

These are the actions (I would expext) of a guilty person trying to lie and obfuscate his way out of this mess.

No way I would do any of that if I were really innocent. Seems like King Charles knows the facts and is trying to mitigate damage.

More proof sex is the most powerful thing on the planet. More so than money, it has replaced money as the root of all evil. More men in high places have been brought down by sex than anything else.

There is a Maryland sex abuser soon to need a roomie in Estanwani...

Guilty or innocent, perception in the Monarchy is everything.

10 years from now it could come out this was all a blackmail scheme.

King Charles can not afford to wait.

It does not say he is being cut off from his money.

They won't cut him off from the money because then he would have no incentive not to spill all the rest of the royal family's dirty secrets.