Prince Andrew has been told to “take himself off to live in private” following new allegations against him in Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir.
Giuffre’s harrowing autobiography, published on Tuesday, includes claims that the King’s brother considered it his “birth right” to sleep with her and that his team tried to hire “internet trolls” to harass her.
Shadow minister Robert Jenrick is one of a growing number of people calling for Andrew to step away from public life altogether.
He said: “He has disgraced himself, he has embarrassed the royal family time and again. I don’t see why the taxpayer, frankly, should continue to foot the bill at all. The public are sick of him.”
The fresh accusations have placed mounting pressure on Andrew - who denies any wrongdoing - to give up his 30-bedroom royal mansion, after it emerged he has paid a “peppercorn rent” on the property for more than 20 years.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has put forward a parliamentary motion to formally strip him of his dukedom after Rachael Maskell, the MP for York Central, told Sky News most of her constituents did not want the duke “to carry a title bearing the name of our city”.
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Key Points
- Prince Andrew should 'leave public life for ever', Tory MP Jenrick says
- Four in five want Andrew formally stripped of dukedom
- All the major revelations in Virginia Giuffre's memoir
- Bill put forward to strip Andrew of dukedom
- Virginia Giuffre ‘would have viewed Prince Andrew giving up titles as a victory’
Pressure mounts on Prince Andrew over his Windsor mansion
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Pressure is mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-room mansion after it emerged he has paid a “peppercorn rent” on the property for more than 20 years.
Senior Tory Robert Jenrick said it was “about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private” as “the public are sick of him”.
Parliamentary committees could also look into the Crown Estate’s handling of Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence in Windsor Great Park.
The campaign group Republic has, meanwhile, demanded a “full, unrelenting investigation” into royal links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and efforts to protect Andrew.
Protesters from the anti-monarchy group unveiled banners reading “End Royal Secrecy” and “What are you hiding? Royal Epstein Inquiry Now” outside the gates of Royal Lodge.
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Four out of five Britons want Prince Andrew to be formally stripped of his dukedom
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Maroosha Muzaffar
Four out of five Britons believe Prince Andrew should be formally stripped of his dukedom, according to a new poll.
It comes as calls intensify for the King’s brother to vacate his Royal Lodge residence.
The prince’s association with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has recently resurfaced in headlines, with renewed attention on the allegations made by his sex accuser, Virginia Giuffre, which Andrew denies, following the release of her posthumous memoirs.
Senior Conservative MP Robert Jenrick commented that it was "about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private" as "the public are sick of him," particularly after it emerged Andrew has paid a "peppercorn rent" for his 30-room home for over two decades.
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Not many in Parliament would disagree with removing Andrew’s titles, says SNP MP
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Athena Stavrou
Many in Parliament would be unlikely to “disagree” with stripping Prince Andrew of his royal title, an SNP MP has said.
The SNP is putting forward a motion to pressure Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to strip Andrew of the title, which would require an Act of Parliament.
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme, the SNP’s Stephen Gethins said stripping Andrew of his title would be “a good thing to do”.
He said: “I think he needs to give them up the way you formally give them up I’m afraid as an Act of Parliament. I’m not sure there would be many people in Parliament who would disagree with that.
“This is a move that you can strip that away, if that gives some relief to the victims I think that is a good thing to do.”
Giuffre recalls moment infamous photo with Andrew was taken
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Athena Stavrou
In her posthumous memoir, published today, Virginia Giuffre describes the moment the infamous picture of her with Prince Andrew was taken.
She says she posed with the prince the first time she met him, aged 17, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London.
She recalled running to get her "Kodak FunSaver" camera and asking Epstein to take the photo.
She added: "My mum would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn't pose for a picture”.
Andrew rightly guessed Giuffre was under age
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Athena Stavrou
Andrew correctly guessed Virginia Giuffre’s age at 17 when they first met, she wrote in her memoir, Nobody’s Girl.
She said that in 2001 Ghislaine Maxwell, later a convicted sex trafficker, took her shopping for clothes to wear for the meeting in Maxwell's London flat.
At the meeting, Maxwell, who "was more coquettish than usual", asked the then-duke to guess Ms Giuffre's age, and Andrew, then 41, guessed correctly at 17, Ms Giuffre wrote.
She said she was paid $15,000 for "serving the man the tabloids called 'Randy Andy’".
Pressure mounts on Prince Andrew over his Windsor mansion
Wednesday 22 October 2025 00:23
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Athena Stavrou
Pressure is mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-bedroom mansion after it emerged he has paid a “peppercorn rent” on the property for more than 20 years.
Senior Tory Robert Jenrick said it was “about time Prince Andrew took himself off to live in private” as “the public are sick of him”.
Parliamentary committees could also look into the Crown Estate’s handling of Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence in Windsor.
A copy of the leasehold agreement, shared by the Crown Estate, shows Andrew signed a 75-year lease on the property in 2003.
It reveals he paid £1 million for the lease and that since then he has paid “one peppercorn” of rent “if demanded” per year.
Key claims from Virginia Giuffre's memoir
Tuesday 21 October 2025 23:24
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Athena Stavrou
Six months after her death, Virginia Giuffre’s memoir has uncovered new harrowing details experience being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
As the book is published on Tuesday here are some of the biggest revelations:
Describing the first time she met Andrew
Giuffre describes being taken shopping by Ghislaine Maxwell in London before the meeting. At her flat, they took a picture together before going out for dinner and to a nightclub.
She alleges she was told to “do for him what you do for Jeffrey” and then after they had sex, the prince said thank you “in his clipped British accent” afterwards”.
An orgy with Andrew on Epstein’s island
Giuffre alleges the third time she had sex with Prince Andrew was on Epstein’s Caribbean island of Little Saint James during an orgy with eight other young girls.
She wrote: “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls, and I had sex together. The other girls all seemed and appeared to be under the age of 18, and didn’t really speak English.”
Giuffre ‘amazed’ Andrew was 'stupid enough' to meet Epstein in public after conviction
After Epstein had been released from prison for procuring a minor for prostitution, Giuffre wrote that she was shocked to see a photograph of Andrew with him in New York’s Central Park in 2011.
Andrew’s Newsnight interview was ‘jet fuel’ for her legal team
As Giuffre wrote she was considering filing a lawsuit against Andrew in 2019, she said she saw the royal had done a sit-down interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight, on which he said he had “no recollection” of meeting Giuffre.
Giuffre wrote: “As devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel. Its contents would.. help us build an ironclad case against the prince.”
Andrew ‘hid behind Balmoral’s gates’
In August 2021, Giuffre’s team launched a legal suit that alleged, she wrote, that “that Prince Andrew had raped and battered me when I was a minor, causing me severe and lasting damage”.
She wrote that when action was launched, papers could not be served on Andrew because of his “fleeing to Queen Elizabeth’s Balmoral Castle in Scotland and hiding behind its well-guarded gates”.
Opinion: It’s time Eugenie and Beatrice cut father out of their lives
Tuesday 21 October 2025 22:33
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Athena Stavrou
There are plenty of people out there who know too well the shame and horror when a parent is accused of something monstrous. Yet few have experienced it under the same high-beam public scrutiny as princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Theirs is a rare kind of living hell.
For their own sake – and certainly that of their young children – the royal princesses need to find some distance from their disgraced father, says Samuel Fishwick:
Watch: Prince Andrew should ‘leave public life forever’, says Jenrick
Tuesday 21 October 2025 21:44
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Athena Stavrou
Giuffre recalls first encounter with Prince Andrew in memoir
Tuesday 21 October 2025 21:00
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Athena Stavrou
Virginia Giuffre wrote in her memoir that Ghislaine Maxwell told her “just like Cinderella”, she was going to “meet a handsome prince” before introducing her to Prince Andrew, who said, “My daughters are just a little younger than you”.
She recalled that at a nightclub “he was sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely”.
Prince Andrew has denied all wrongdoing.
Giuffre alleged that afterward “he seemed in a rush to have intercourse” and “said thank you in his clipped British accent”.
Maxwell later told her, “You did well. The prince had fun.”
Giuffre described Andrew as “friendly enough, but still entitled”, saying Epstein paid her $15,000 for “servicing the man the tabloids called ‘Randy Andy’”.
Four in five want Andrew formally stripped of dukedom
Tuesday 21 October 2025 20:46
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Jane Dalton
Full story: Prince Andrew has paid no rent on Royal Lodge for more than 20 years
Tuesday 21 October 2025 20:10
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew to be banned from all royal life when Prince William is King
Tuesday 21 October 2025 19:34
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew will be barred from Prince William’s coronation, Christmas at Sandringham and all other elements of royal life when he is crowned King, The Sunday Times reported.
Andrew will be forbidden to attend public and private royal events and most state occasions. Sarah Ferguson, his ex-wife, will also be barred.
The Sunday Times reported that Buckingham Palace said that while Prince William was “consulted” on the decision for his uncle’s titles to be relinquished, he was not content with the outcome, and will take a more ruthless approach as King.
The Prince of Wales is said to consider Andrew a “threat” to the monarch’s reputation and is worried about how his attendance at royal events could appear to sexual assault victims.
Princess Beatrice and Eugenie will continue to be welcomed at events.
Virginia Giuffre would view Prince Andrew giving up Royal titles 'as a victory', says memoir co-author
Tuesday 21 October 2025 19:04
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Athena Stavrou
What is Andrew alleged to have asked his security to look into?
Tuesday 21 October 2025 18:30
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Athena Stavrou
The report in the Mail on Sunday said Andrew had asked one of his personal protection officers to dig up information about Virginia Giuffre, citing an email sent by Andrew to Queen Elizabeth's deputy press secretary at the time.
Andrew said he had given police her date of birth and social security number, adding that he believed she had a criminal record in the United States, according to the email quoted by the Mail on Sunday.
Giuffre's family told the newspaper she did not have a criminal record.
There is no suggestion the officer complied, the Mail on Sunday said.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: "We are aware of media reporting and are actively looking into the claims made.”
Prince Andrew told to drop titles in 10 minute call with 'weary' King: report
Tuesday 21 October 2025 18:04
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew was told to drop his titles in a 10-minute call with a ‘weary’ King Charles on Thursday, royal sources told The Mirror.
The monarch was said to have called the meeting after growing “weary and furious” over the mounting scandals.
He allegedly told Andrew that action was needed to stop it.
The official statement published on Friday said: “In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.”
We tried for next best thing to confession, Giuffre said
Tuesday 21 October 2025 17:44
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Athena Stavrou
Virginia Giuffre wrote in her autobiography how Andrew hid behind "the well-guarded gates" of Balmoral Castle, making it difficult for her lawyers to serve him with papers.
She also said of her legal settlement: "After casting doubt on my credibility for so long - Prince Andrew's team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me - the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well."
Ms Giuffre added: "We would never get a confession, of course. That's what settlements are designed to avoid. But we were trying for the next best thing: a general acknowledgment of what I'd been through."
Andrew paid millions to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case in 2022, despite claiming never to have met her.
Comment: Prince Andrew is in danger of dragging the late Queen’s name down with him
Tuesday 21 October 2025 17:21
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Athena Stavrou
When it came to the former Duke of York, who was regarded as her favoured child, the Queen’s usual sound judgement appeared to desert her, says Alexander Larman – leading to existential damage to the royal family:
Royal website changed to remove Duke of York references
Tuesday 21 October 2025 16:54
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Athena Stavrou
Three references to the Duke of York on the royal family’s website have been changed to read Prince Andrew instead.
A page about Andrew is no longer headed Duke of York, and the words “On 13 January 2022, Buckingham Palace announced that, with Queen Elizabeth II's approval and agreement, the Duke of York’s military affiliations and Royal patronages would be returned” has been altered to say Prince Andrew, not Duke of York.
Minister: Prince Andrew should give evidence to authorities
Tuesday 21 October 2025 16:27
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew should give evidence to US authorities about the crimes of the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, a Cabinet minister has said.
Asked whether he though Andrew should give evidence, Business Secretary Peter Kyle told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “I do.
“I think anybody that has any information that could bring justice and information to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes should be fully engaging with any of the authorities that are seeking to deliver that information and justice for the victims.”
He added: “Those victims must be first, and they must be central to how we discuss and debate any of these issues relating to the Jeffrey Epstein saga situation and the crimes he committed.
“So of course, anybody, anywhere that has information that can deliver that justice should be sharing it openly.
“I believe that Andrew, in the past, has said that he would co-operate, and I urge him to stick to his word on that.”
Will the SNP’s push to strip Prince Andrew’s titles stop the rot?
Tuesday 21 October 2025 16:03
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Athena Stavrou
With his early day motion, Stephen Flynn tried to pressure the government to introduce legislation that would relieve the disgraced royal of his titles – but there’s a good reason why it won't work, says John Rentoul:
Why hasn't Andrew been formally stripped of his titles?
Tuesday 21 October 2025 15:49
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Athena Stavrou
Prince Andrew voluntarily relinquished use of his titles with agreement from the King, he said on Friday.
But he was not formally stripped of his titles, which would require an act of parliament. Rather, the titles are now not in use.
The avoids using up parliamentary time for debates on the matter.
But some MPs have backed a motion, put forward by the SNP, to do so anyway.
Rachael Maskell, the MP for York Central, told Sky News most of her constituents did not want the duke "to carry a title bearing the name of our city".
Watch: King has ‘acted decisively’ over Prince Andrew matters, says Cabinet minister
Tuesday 21 October 2025 15:24
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Athena Stavrou
Andrew 'should show contrition and return every penny'
Tuesday 21 October 2025 15:01
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Jane Dalton
Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office spokeswoman Lisa Smart said Andrew "should show some contrition by returning every penny of rent that he's not paid while disgracing his office".
MPs on the Commons Treasury Committee and the Public Accounts Committee could look into the Crown Estate's handling of the lease on his Royal Lodge home in Windsor and his being charged only a peppercorn rent.
Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Treasury Committee, told Today: "Where money flows, particularly where taxpayers' money is involved, or taxpayers' interests are involved, Parliament has a responsibility to have a light shine upon that, and we need to have answers."
Profits from the Crown Estate are handed to the Treasury.
Pictured: Protest at Andrew's home
Tuesday 21 October 2025 14:39
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Jane Dalton
Activists from the anti-monarchy group Republic protested at the gates to Royal Lodge where Prince Andrew lives.
Crown Estate would have to pay Andrew £558,000 if he quit home
Tuesday 21 October 2025 14:16
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Jane Dalton
Parliamentary committees could look into the Crown Estate's handling of Andrew's Royal Lodge residence in Windsor.
A copy of the leasehold agreement from the Crown Estate shows he signed a 75-year lease on the property in 2003.
The agreement contains a clause stating the Crown Estate would have to pay Andrew around £558,000 if he gave up the lease.
It reveals he paid £1m for the lease and that since then he has paid "one peppercorn" of rent "if demanded" per year.
Profits from the Crown Estate are handed to the Treasury for the nation's finances, raising concerns that the public could be deprived of funds from the property due to the peppercorn rent.
He was required to pay a further £7.5m for refurbishments completed in 2005, according to the National Audit Office.
All the major Prince Andrew revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s memoir
Tuesday 21 October 2025 13:59
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Athena Stavrou
Watch: Prince Andrew should ‘leave public life for ever’, says Jenrick
Tuesday 21 October 2025 13:44
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Athena Stavrou
Debate on Andrew's titles 'matter for the Speaker', No 10 says
Tuesday 21 October 2025 13:25
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Athena Stavrou
No 10 has declined to say whether the Government supports a proposal by the Scottish National Party to introduce legislation to remove Prince Andrew’s dukedom.
He said it is “obviously a matter for the Speaker” whether to allow debate on an early day motion put forward by the SNP to strip Andrew of the title, which would require an Act of Parliament.
The spokesman said: “Prince Andrew has already confirmed he will not use his titles. We support the judgement made by the royal family.
“In terms of our focus and thoughts, they are firmly with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who suffered and continue to suffer because of the abuse they experienced at his hands.
“Those allegations are being looked at by the Met.”
The official also said it is up to the National Audit Office (NAO) whether to re-examine Prince Andrew’s lease arrangements for Royal Lodge.
Asked whether the public spending watchdog should look into the issue again, 20 years after its first review, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “That’s obviously a matter for the NAO.”
Downing Street declines to comment on calls to evict Andrew from royal lodge
Tuesday 21 October 2025 13:04
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Athena Stavrou
Downing Street declined to pass judgment on Prince Andrew’s continued residence at Royal Lodge, amid fury over taxpayers subsidising him living in the mansion despite revelations on his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman refused to “get drawn into hypotheticals about living arrangements of members of the royal family” as he faced repeated questions from reporters.
Asked whether Andrew should leave Royal Lodge, the official said: “The lease was agreed with the Crown Estate, which is statutorily independent from Government, required to operate commercially.
“Terms of the lease required an initial one-off £1 million payment to the Crown Estate, as well as a requirement for Prince Andrew to pay for substantial upfront refurbishment work.
“The National Audit Office reviewed the lease arrangements for Royal Lodge in 2005. And in its report, which was published at that time, concluded that the Crown Estate does not have any special procedures when negotiating agreements with the royal family.
“An independent evaluation concluded that the transaction with Prince Andrew and Royal Lodge was appropriate.”
The spokesman evaded questions on whether Sir Keir Starmer is happy with the arrangement, and whether it should be reviewed in light of Andrew’s ties with Epstein, saying: “That is the situation as it exists.”
Giuffre ‘amazed’ Andrew was 'stupid enough' to meet Epstein in public after conviction
Tuesday 21 October 2025 12:47
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Athena Stavrou
Virginia Giuffre has said she was “amazed” that a member of the royal family would be “stupid enough” to appear in public with Jeffrey Epstein after his conviction.
Prince Andrew’s alleged victim described how she felt after seeing the picture published of the pair in New York in 2011.
“Seeing this new photo of Prince Andrew at Epstein’s side made ‘Randy Andy’ seem even more arrogant to me,” she wrote in her posthumous memoir.
Giuffre recalls moment infamous photo with Andrew was taken
Tuesday 21 October 2025 12:32
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Athena Stavrou
In her posthumous memoir, published today, Virginia Giuffre describes the moment the infamous picture of her with Prince Andrew was taken.
She says she posed with the prince the first time she met him, aged 17, at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house in London.
She recalled running to get her "Kodak FunSaver" camera and asking Epstein to take the photo.
She added: "My mum would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn't pose for a picture”.
Who has supported the motion to strip Andrew of titles?
Tuesday 21 October 2025 12:11
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Athena Stavrou
The SNP has put forward a motion to pressure Sir Keir Starmer’s government to formally strip Andrew of his title, which would require an Act of Parliament.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s Westminster leader, has submitted an early day motion (EDM) which allows MPs to express an opinion, publicise a cause or support a position. It is rare for them to be debated.
There are 14 signatures supporting the EDM, all from either SNP, Plaid Cymru or Green Party MPs.
Opinion: It’s time Eugenie and Beatrice cut father out of their lives
Tuesday 21 October 2025 12:03
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Athena Stavrou
There are plenty of people out there who know too well the shame and horror when a parent is accused of something monstrous. Yet few have experienced it under the same high-beam public scrutiny as princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Theirs is a rare kind of living hell.
For their own sake – and certainly that of their young children – the royal princesses need to find some distance from their disgraced father, says Samuel Fishwick:
Giuffre's brother calls on UK police watchdog to review Andrew claims
Tuesday 21 October 2025 11:37
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Athena Stavrou
The brother of Virginia Giuffre have called on the police watchdog to review the decision by the Metropolitan Police not to continue its investigations into her allegations against Prince Andrew.
Giuffre’s family says she had been “gaslit” by the police and authorities in both the UK and US which was a “kick in the stomach” for her.
They have called for the Met Police to reopen the