PRINCE Andrew “gagged” his abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre to avoid ruining the late Queen’s platinum jubilee, it has been claimed. Virginia made the shock claims in her memoir

A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offers an expanded account of her longstanding claims to have been sexually trafficked by the late financier to billionaires, politicians and Prince Andrew.

Extracts from Virginia Giuffre's memoir include three alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew, who she described as a "bumbling dancer" who "sweated profusely". The Duke of York has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

The titles and honours he will no longer use include his wedding day titles – The Duke of York, the Earl of Inverness and Baron Killyleagh, his knighthood as a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) and his Garter role as a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

She was a 16-year-old employee at Mar-a-Lago in 2000 when she says she was recruited into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring. Before her death by suicide earlier this year, Giuffre wrote a memoir,

In her book to be published posthumously next week, Virginia Giuffre also claimed Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were also almost drawn into the case.