The key claims Virginia Giuffre makes about Prince Andrew in posthumous memoir

Six months after Virginia Giuffre's death, her posthumous memoir will be published on Tuesday - detailing alleged sexual encounters with Prince Andrew.

In Nobody's Girl, Ms Giuffre writes about three alleged sexual encounters with the prince - who gave up his titles last week after mounting pressure over his relationship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and his links to an alleged Chinese spy.

Andrew has always vigorously denied all the accusations against him.

Ms Giuffre also recounts harrowing details of being manipulated by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, told her co-writer Amy Wallace weeks before her death that it was her "heartfelt wish" for the book to be published even in the event of her death.

Here are the key claims Ms Giuffre makes in the memoir.

'I believed I might die a sex slave'

At the beginning of the memoir, Ms Giuffre writes about her battle to escape the control of Epstein and Maxwell.

"In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated - and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied.

"I believed that I might die a sex slave."

Epstein took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell was jailed for recruiting young girls for Epstein.

Giuffre and Andrew's alleged first meeting

Ms Giuffre wrote that on the day she allegedly met Andrew in 2001, Maxwell told her "just like Cinderella, I was going to meet a handsome prince".

She added that when she met Andrew, he correctly guessed she was 17 and told her: "My daughters are just a little younger than you."

Ms Giuffre wrote in her memoir about visiting a nightclub with Andrew: "He was sort of a bumbling dancer, and I remember he sweated profusely."

That claim was strongly denied by Andrew, who said in a 2019 Newsnight interview that he suffered from a condition which meant he was unable to sweat.

When they returned to the house, Ms Giuffre said she ran Andrew a bath before they had sex, saying "he seemed in a rush to have intercourse".

"Afterward, he said thank you in his clipped British accent. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour."

Ms Giuffre added: "The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun'."

She described the prince as "friendly enough, but still entitled" adding: "As if he believed having sex with me was his birthright".

She wrote Epstein paid her $15,000 for "servicing the man the tabloids called 'Randy Andy'".

In the Newsnight interview, Andrew said he had "no recollection whatsoever" of meeting Ms Giuffre.

He said the alleged encounter in 2001 did not happen because he had spent the day with his daughter, Princess Beatrice, taking her to Pizza Express in Woking for a party.

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Two other alleged sexual encounters

The memoir also describes two other alleged sexual encounters with the prince, including in New York a month later and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands when she was around 18.

The extract describes the latter as an "orgy" with Epstein and "approximately eight other young girls" who "appeared to be under the age of 18" who "didn't really speak English".

'My mum would never forgive me... if I didn't pose for a picture'

Ms Giuffre was keen to take a photograph of the first time she allegedly met Andrew.

That image, showing him with his arm around Giuffre, has become infamous. Andrew later claimed the picture had been doctored.

Ms Giuffre said she remembered running for her "Kodak FunSaver" camera - adding that "my mum would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn't pose for a picture".

Central Park photo spurred Giuffre to go public

Recalling the moment in 2011 when she decided to go public with claims about Prince Andrew, Ms Giuffre wrote it was prompted by the photograph of Epstein and Andrew walking in Central Park, two years after Epstein was jailed for procuring underage girls in Florida.

"It seemed that being a sex offender has not eroded Epstein's social cachet one bit," Ms Giuffre wrote.

"The two-one punch of the photo in Central Park and the details of that A-list part knocked me off the fence I'd been straddling. I told Churcher I'd go on the record."

Journalist Sharon Churcher had been in contact with Ms Giuffre since 2011, the memoir claims. Her first article, based on the pair's interviews, was published in the Mail On Sunday in February of that year.

The article did not mention Andrew by name, but claimed Ms Giuffre had been trafficked to "royalty" by Epstein.

Prince Andrew's 'team' tried to hire 'internet trolls'

In February 2022 it was announced that Andrew paid millions to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case, despite claiming never to have met her.

Writing about the settlement, Ms Giuffre claims a "team" working for the prince had gone as far as trying to hire "internet trolls to hassle" her.

"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."

She adds: "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."

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Giuffre wanted to use 'Crown's money to do some good'

The memoir does not divulge how much Ms Giuffre was paid in the settlement, but refers to reports "that his mother, the Queen of England, had footed the bill".

"I look forward to disseminating some of the Crown's money to do some good," she wrote.

She adds: "Now that my settlement from Prince Andrew has come through, I have begun the slow process of turning my fledgling foundation, Soar, into a professionally run organisation.

"My goal is for Soar to combat human trafficking by supporting organisations that focus on prosecution, protection, and prevention."

Ms Giuffre said she wanted to make it easier for members of the public to detect trafficking and to support victims' recovery, by issuing grants.

Buckingham Palace has not commented on the book and say they do not act for Prince Andrew as a non-working royal.

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