How Much Do We Think Prince Andrew Is *Not* Sweating Right Now?

The removal of Andrew’s royal title and eviction comes less than two weeks after Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir was released. Andrew, as the world well knows by now, was one of the many men Giuffre was trafficked to. In 2001, when Giuffre was first introduced to the then-Prince, Epstein’s former partner and co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, prepared her like a lamb for slaughter—taking her shopping all day and making clear the expectations for her.

“When Prince Andrew arrived at the house that evening, Maxwell was more coquettish than usual,” Giuffre wrote. “‘Guess Jenna’s age,’ she urged the prince, after she introduced me. 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.’” As detailed in various legal documents and proceedings, Giuffre was instructed to sleep with Prince Andrew after a night out. In return, she received $15,000 from Epstein, and Maxwell continued to coordinate her abuse, and that of many others.

Before her death in April, Giuffre had long laid bare Andrew’s ties to Epstein and Maxwell. According to Giuffre, she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times as a teenager, and that he “believed that having sex with me was his birthright.” On that first night, she also repeatedly recalled Andrew “sweating” all over her on a dance floor.

In November 2019, months after Epstein was found dead in his Metropolitan Correctional Center cell, Andrew sat for a disastrous interview with the BBC in which he vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations. Andrew countered Giuffre’s story with a bizarre (and borderline funny) claim that he physically couldn’t sweat due to an “adrenaline overdose” during the Falklands War. The sit-down did him no favors, and frankly, should’ve culminated in his eviction and title-stripping then.

In response to the news, members of Giuffre’s family have issued moving statements of their own. “This normal girl from a normal family has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her,” Sky Roberts, Giuffre’s brother, told BBC Newsnight.”She is celebrating from the heavens now saying, ‘I did it.'”

“She’d be so proud,” he continued. “He’s just Andrew.”

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