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Buckingham Palace has announced that all military titles and royal patronymics will be revoked by the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, and he will no longer be able to use the title of His Highness.
The announcement states that “with the approval and consent” of the queen, the titles of the third child in a row return to her.
“The Duke of York will continue not to take on any public obligations,” the statement said, adding that Prince Andrew would defend himself against a lawsuit filed against him for sexually abusing a minor “as a private citizen”.
Prince Andrew, 61, is accused by the victim of the American stockbroker Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Gioufre, that he was forced to have sex with him when he was 17, in 2001.
Although Queen Elizabeth’s son denies the allegations, a US judge in New York, where the lawsuit was filed, ruled within a week that the case could go to trial, which has opened the prospect of the British blue blood appearing before a jury in an American court. .
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