The Virginia Giuffre Memoir And Prince Andrew
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss the allegations made in Virginia Giuffre’s memoir against Prince Andrew.
Virginia Giuffre passed away in April after taking her own life, but finished writing the book before her death. The book goes into detail about the allegations she has made against Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell. Prince Andrew denies all of the allegations made against him, but gave up his royal titles on Friday.
What does Giuffre say in the book, and how have the Royal Family responded? Adam is joined in the studio with BBC Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire, and BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, and back in the newscast hot seat. |
| 0:08.4 | Thank you very much to the cast of characters who kept it warm over the weekend, |
| 0:12.5 | Marianna, Justin, Simon and Victoria. |
| 0:15.4 | And Vic will be back here in the studio in this episode, |
| 0:18.3 | because as she mentioned over the weekend, |
| 0:20.5 | she has read |
| 0:21.7 | Virginia Dufre's posthumous memoir, which is adding today to the negative headlines around |
| 0:28.1 | Prince Andrew. And just a warning, we will be discussing some of the distressing content |
| 0:32.8 | that is found in that book. And also a reminder that Prince Andrew denies all the allegations against him. |
| 0:39.9 | So that's what we will be discussing on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:45.9 | Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. |
| 0:50.1 | Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. Then daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio. And over the last few episodes of Newscast, we've seen the mounting negative headlines about Prince Andrew. |
| 1:11.7 | On Friday night, it was that statement from him saying he was going to relinquish nearly all his |
| 1:16.1 | royal titles, although crucially not the prince bit of his royal title. Then over the weekend, |
| 1:21.7 | there were those reports that in 2011, when that old photo from 2001 surfaced of him with Virginia Jifrey, he spoke to his |
| 1:31.6 | police protection officer to get him to look into her background and what was going on. |
| 1:37.2 | And now today, on Monday the 20th of October, earlier than planned, Virginia Jafray's posthumous autobiography has hit the bookshelves. |
| 1:48.6 | So, looks like we'll be spending another episode of Newscast trying to work out what's going on here |
| 1:53.6 | and look at the implications for Prince Andrew and for the royal family. |
| 1:57.6 | And also to hear a bit more of Virginia Dufre's story in her own words. So let's do that now, because here in the newscast studio with me is our senior royal correspondent, Daniela Ralf. Hello, Daniela. Hello, Adam. Busy day for you. Very much so. Busy weekend. And also welcome back, Victoria Dabresher from Newsnight. Hello. Hi, Adam. How are you? Good, thanks. This weirdly feels sort of like we're about to do book group because you've got Virginia Geoffrey's book there. I have. And Victoria, just explain where we are kind of in the timeline of your day today. Okay, so it's half six right now and I've been reading this book for the past week. Obviously had to keep it under wraps because it's not supposed to be published worldwide |
| 2:34.9 | until tomorrow. A few books were being sold in London yesterday. So I knew how absolutely |
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