The family of Prince Andrew's late sexual abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre, is celebrating the royal relinquishing his remaining titles amid continued fallout over his ties to the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

“This is not just a victory for her, but for every single survivor of the horrific crimes perpetrated by [Jeffrey] Epstein and his co-conspirators”, family members told The New York Post in a statement.

The family has called for Andrew, who has denied all wrongdoing, including Giuffre’s allegations. to lose his title of prince next.

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“As a Royal.. if you're not safeguarding the most vulnerable people in your community, why should you hold those positions of power?” Virginia Giuffre's sister-in-law, Amanda Roberts, told BBC Newsnight last month.

Her comments came after it emerged that Sarah Ferguson, the then-Duchess of York, had called sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a “supreme friend”.

A spokesperson for Ferguson told the BBC that the comment was written to counter Epstein's threat to sue for defamation, and that she regretted any association with him.

The prince is handing back all the remaining honours he clung onto despite being stripped of his HRH title and public duties by his mother, the late queen.

It comes just days before the publication of a memoir by Andrew’s late alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre, to whom he paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case, and after revelations he had held three meetings with a senior Chinese Communist Party official at the heart of the China spy case scandal.

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In a statement released by Buckingham Palace on Friday, Andrew 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. I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life.

“With His Majesty’s agreement, we feel I must now go a step further. I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me. As I have said previously, I vigorously deny the accusations against me.”

In the weeks before the announcement that Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson would drop their titles, the Duchess of York was dropped by several charities amid fallout from alleged links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Children’s hospice Julia’s House announced the move last month followed by food allergy charity The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation, Prevent Breast Cancer, the Teenage Cancer Trust and the British Heart Foundation.

Both the National Foundation for Retired Service Animals (NFRSA) and The Children’s Literacy Charity have also reportedly dropped Sarah Ferguson, according to the BBC.

The announcement that Prince Andrew is giving up the use of his titles and honours comes days before Virginia Guiffre’s memoir, detailing allegations of sexual abuse against Andrew, is set to be released.

This week, Prince Andrew has made headlines for a series of scandals, including new revelations of his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whom it was revealed he sent an email to three months after the date he said he had severed contact.

In the email, he told the paedophile, “we are in this together”, and “we'll play some more soon”.

It was also recently revealed that Andrew met a senior Chinese Communist Party official at the heart of the China spy scandal, at least three times in 2018 and 2019.

An extract of Virginia Giuffre’s memoir was also published on Wednesday, detailing the allegations of sexual abuse against the prince.

She claimed that Andrew believed having sex with her was “his birthright.”

Virginia Giuffre’s brother, Sky Roberts, said he would welcome any contact with the King.

“We would call on the King to potentially go ahead and take out the ‘prince’ in the Andrew,” he told Newsnight.

“I think it’s so important for the world to know how much of a hero she was, but how much of the stone is still left unturned to some degree. This is just one step of many,” he says.

“We have shed a lot of happy and sad tears today. I think happy because in a lot of ways this vindicates Virginia.”

Robert Hardman, who wrote a biography about King Charles, has said that Prince Andrew giving up his titles was not really his choice and due to the various scandals he was engulfed in.

He told BBC News: "Things are simply not going away.

"And I think the palace has decided, and Prince Andrew has agreed, that there really has to be a further separation.

"He wants to look as if he's proactive and try and regain some dignity out of this."

Mr Hardman added that although Andrew won’t use the titles, he hasn’t been stripped of them.

Haley Robson, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, has thanked the King for “standing up to the system and to the abusers” and would encourage him to give Donald Trump a call.

“Thank you for putting your people first and making the people a priority. Thank you for doing what is long awaited, what is appropriate, and for acting and doing the right thing. If you would like to give Trump a phone call, I encourage that,” she told Newsnight.

“This is why King Charles is king, he is showing the world, including America, what it looks like to have somebody held accountable.”