Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's Life in Pictures

"Andrew has always maintained that he has no memory of ever meeting Giuffre, and that he committed no wrongdoing in any of his relations with Epstein, who died in New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Nonetheless, in 2011, Andrew stepped down from his decade-long role as a U.K. international-trade envoy. In 2019, after a disastrous television interview in which he admitted that he had "let the side down" by his association with Epstein,"

"Just over two years later, Andrew was stripped of his royal patronages and military roles; soon afterward, he reached a reportedly multimillion-dollar settlement with Giuffre in a civil sexual-abuse suit, in which he admitted no liability. Last October, with the posthumous publication of Giuffre's memoir, in which she alleged that she had had sex with Andrew on three occasions, he surrendered the use of his title Duke of York."

"For a man whose identity was constituted around a sense of social superiority-according to Lownie's book, if Andrew was met with insufficient deference upon entering a room he would loudly announce, "Let's try that again," before exiting and reëntering to hastily performed bows and curtsies-the reduction in status was surely a profound humiliation. Even Charles I, who was executed for treason in 1649, went to the scaffold as King."

Andrew consistently denied remembering meeting Giuffre and denied wrongdoing in his relations with Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting a sex-trafficking trial. He resigned as a U.K. trade envoy in 2011 and stepped back from royal duties after a damaging 2019 television interview. He was later stripped of royal patronages and military roles and reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with Giuffre without admitting liability. He surrendered the Duke of York title and adopted the style Mr. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The loss of status was portrayed as a profound humiliation. He was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to U.S. document disclosures.

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