‘He knew I was 17…believed it was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir details Prince Andrew’s exploits
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Prince Andrew of raping her when she was a minor, a shock that the Royal Family is yet to overcome, detailed her encounters with Andrew in her memoir ‘Nobody’s Girl’ which is going to be published posthumously after Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year. The case was settled between Giuffre and Andrew after Andrew paid her a hefty amount, though he never admitted to having raped her when she was 17. Giuffre used to work for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, when she met Andrew and had sex with him on several occasions. Epstein’s girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, introduced them on a fateful day when Giuffre was on cloud nine, thinking she was going to meet a handsome prince like Cinderella. When they met, Andrew was asked to guess Giuffre’s age. “The Duke of York, who was then 41, guessed correctly: 17. ‘My daughters are just a little younger than you,’ he told me, explaining his accuracy. As usual, Maxwell was quick with a joke: ‘I guess we will have to trade her in soon.’,” says her memoir. Giuffre explained that Andrew knew her age but thought it was his birthright to have sex with her
Truth behind the viral photo
A photo of Andrew and Giuffre emerged as the most crucial evidence in the case. Andrew claimed the photo was morphed but Giuffre in her book narrated why she took the photo.“My mom would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn’t pose for a picture. “I ran to get a Kodak FunSaver from my room, then returned and handed it to Epstein. I remember the prince putting his arm around my waist as Maxwell grinned beside me. Epstein snapped the photo,” she writes.Giuffre and Andrew went to dinner and then hit a nightclub. Maxwell told her that she was to do with Andrew what she did for Jeffrey. “He (Andrew) was friendly enough, but still entitled – as if he believed having sex with me was his birthright,” the book says. The book also reports two other occasions on which she alleges she had sex with Andrew – in Epstein’s townhouse in New York and on Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands.
