(ANSA) - LONDON, JANUARY 28 - A new obligatory step back for Prince Andrew, the third son of Queen Elizabeth dressed in the Epstein sex scandal in the US. Finally marginalized by the British Royal Family with the recent revocation of official posts, patronages and military titles of honor, and the freezing of the title of His Royal Highness, the 62-year-old Duke of York on February 19, has now also renounced the honorary membership of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, the Kingdom's historic and exclusive golf club.
The "resignation" was announced by the management of the club, which made it known to "respect and appreciate the decision of the Duke". His tenure as an excellent member had become embarrassing for other members, according to the media.
Andrea is grappling with the civil suit filed in his confrontations before the overseas justice by Virginia Giuffre, one of the victims of the circle of young and very young people exploited at the time by the American fixer Jeffrey Epstein - who died in prison in New York after a heavy sentence - benefit of his own and of numerous VIP friends and acquaintances. The woman claims she was pushed to have sex with him at least three times in 2001, when she was only 17 years old.
Accusation that the prince - apparently determined to conduct an open legal battle on the case even at the cost of aggravating the embarrassment in the Windsor house in the year of the Platinum Jubilee, 70th anniversary on the throne of the almost 96-year-old Elizabeth II - has returned to reject in a defensive memory just presented in New York by her lawyers, admitting only as fleeting her frequentation of Epstein and his partner and presumed accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: socialite and former British heiress in turn condemned at the end of 2021 (but in court) for the scandal.
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