Prince Andrew speaks with King Charles at the funeral of Katharine, Duchess of Kent, in September
The brother of Virginia Giuffre has called on King Charles to strip Prince Andrew of the title "prince" after he announced he is giving up his other titles, including the Duke of York.
Ms Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions, including when she was aged 17 at the home of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001.
The prince made a financial payment to Ms Giuffre in an out-of-court settlement in 2022, after she had brought a civil case against him. He denies all the accusations against him.
Sky Roberts told BBC Newsnight his sister, who took her own life earlier this year, would be "very proud" of the latest development regarding Prince Andrew.
The prince has been under increasing pressure over his links with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with calls for Buckingham Palace to take action against him.
On Friday, the prince announced that he was deciding to voluntarily hand back his titles and to give up membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.
He will also cease be the Duke of York, a title received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
But Mr Roberts said he would like to see the King go a step further, saying: "We would call on the King to potentially go ahead and take out the prince in the Andrew."
"I think anybody that was implicated in this should have some sort of resolve. They should have some sort of responsibility and accountability for these survivors," he said, adding that he would "welcome any contact from the King, from members of parliament".
When Prince Andrew was born in 1960, he was automatically a prince as the son of a monarch. This could only be changed if a Letters Patent was issued by the King.
Virginia Roberts
Ms Giuffre alleged that the prince had sex with her when she was 17 years old, at his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's house in London in 2001
In his statement on Friday, Prince 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."
He said he continued to "vigorously deny the accusations against me".
The prince had already ceased to be a "working royal" and had lost the use of his HRH title and no longer appeared at official royal events. His role now will be even more diminished.
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Virginia Giuffre took her own life earlier this year
The prince has faced a series of scandals over recent years, including a court case he settled with Ms Giuffre.
Next week a posthumous memoir by Ms Giuffre will be published. It is likely to cast further attention on Prince Andrew's involvement with her and Epstein.
Ms Giuffre claimed that she was one of many vulnerable girls and young women who had been sexually exploited by Epstein and his circle of wealthy connections.
She alleged that she was forced to have sex with the prince at the house of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell in London in 2001, when Ms Giuffre was 17 years old.
Her memoir describes two other occasions on which she alleges she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew - in Epstein's townhouse in New York and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands.
Ms Giuffre's brother, Mr Roberts, told BBC Newsnight: "We have shed a lot of happy and sad tears today. I think happy because in a lot of ways this vindicates Virginia."
"All the years of work that she put in is now coming to some sort of justice, and these monsters can't escape from it - the truth will find its way out."
He said this was "a moment where survivors are not staying quiet any more".
"It's just a joyous moment for them because we're finally getting some sense of acknowledgement, like 'this actually happened, what we're saying is the truth'," Mr Roberts added.
He said there was "so much more to be accomplished, especially here in the United States".
Prince Andrew spoke to BBC Newsnight in 2019
Prince Andrew has faced intense scrutiny over his links with disgraced financier Epstein, more recently including questions about when he had really cut off contact.
In a now-infamous BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, Prince Andrew said that he had severed all links with Epstein after they had been photographed together in New York in December 2010.
But emails sent in February 2011 later emerged suggesting that he had privately stayed in touch with Epstein, including sending a message that read: "Keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!"
Prince Andrew is expected to stay in his Windsor home, Royal Lodge, on which he has his own private lease which runs until 2078.
His ex-wife will be known as Sarah Ferguson and no longer Duchess of York, but their daughters will continue to have the title of princess.
The US state department says a Hamas attack on Palestinians would be a ceasefire violation
The US State Department says it has "credible reports" that Hamas is planning an "imminent" attack on civilians in Gaza, which it says would violate the ceasefire agreement.
A statement released on Saturday said a planned attack against Palestinians would be a "direct and grave" violation of the ceasefire agreement and "undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts".
The state department did not not provide further details on the attack and it is unclear what reports it was citing.
The first phase of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is currently in progress - all living hostages have been released and bodies of the deceased are still being returned to Israel.
Also part of the agreement, Israel freed 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.
Washington said it had already informed other guarantors of the Gaza peace agreement - which include Egypt, Qatar and Turkey - and demanded Hamas uphold its end of the ceasefire terms.
"Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire," the statement said.
Hamas has not yet commented on the statement.
President Donald Trump has previously warned Hamas against the killing of civilians.
"If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them," Trump said in a post on Truth Social earlier this week.
He later clarified that he would not be sending US troops into Gaza.
Last week, BBC Verify authenticated graphic videos that showed a public execution carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza.
The videos showed several men with guns line up eight people, whose arms were tied behind their backs, before killing them in a crowded square.
BBC Verify could not confirm the identity of the masked gunmen, though some appeared to be wearing the green headbands associated with Hamas.
So far, the remains of 10 out of 28 deceased hostages had been returned to Israel.
Separately on Saturday, 11 members of one Palestinian family were killed by an Israeli tank shell, according to the Hamas-run civil defence ministry, in what was the deadliest single incident involving Israeli soldiers in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire.
The Israeli military said soldiers had fired at a "suspicious vehicle" that had crossed the so-called yellow line demarcating the area still occupied by Israeli forces in Gaza.
There are no physical markers of this line, and it is unclear if the bus did cross it. The BBC has asked the IDF for the coordinates of the incident.
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.
At least 68,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as reliable.
The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now.
People demonstrating in 2023 in Bordeaux, France, against pension reform. Many had thought the fight over raising the retirement age was settled, but that was not the case.
"I rode away on a camel with my grandmother, along a sandy road, and I started to cry." Ayish Younis is describing the worst moment of his life – he still regards it as such, even though it was 77 years ago, and he's lived through many horrors since.
It was 1948, the first Arab-Israeli war was raging, and Ayish was 12. He and his whole extended family were fleeing their homes in the village of Barbara - famed for its grapes, wheat, corn and barley - in what had been British-ruled Palestine.
"We were scared for our lives," Ayish says. "On our own, we had no means to fight the Jews, so we all started to leave."
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'We returned to what we started with': Ayish reflects on living in a tent once more
The camel took Ayish and his grandmother seven miles south from Barbara, to an area held by Egypt that would become known as the Gaza Strip. It was just 25 miles long and a few miles wide, and had just become occupied by Egyptian forces.
In all an estimated 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes and became refugees as a result of the war of 1948-49; around 200,000 are believed to have crowded into that tiny coastal corridor.
"We had bits of wood which we propped against the walls of a building to make a shelter," Ayish says.
Later, they moved into one of the huge tented camps established by the United Nations.
Today, aged 89, Ayish is again living in a tent in Al-Mawasi near Khan Younis.
In May last year, seven months into the two-year war between Israel and Hamas, Ayish was forced to leave his home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after an evacuation order from the Israeli military.
The four-storey house, divided into several apartments, that he had shared with his children and their families, was destroyed by what he believes may have been Israeli tank-fire.
Now, home is a small white canvas tent just a few metres across.
Ayish's family home was destroyed during the conflict (pictured above). He is once is again living in a tent (pictured) - now in the Al-Mawasi near Khan Yunis
Other members of the family are in neighbouring tents. They have all had to cook on an open fire. With no access to running water they wash using canned water, which is scarce and as a result expensive.
"We returned to what we started with, we returned back to tents, and we still don't know how long we will be here," he says, sitting in a plastic chair on the bare sand outside his tent, with clothes drying on a washing line nearby.
A walking frame is propped beside him, as he moves with difficulty. But he still speaks in the crystal-clear, melodious Arabic of one who studied literature, and recited the Quran daily as the imam of a local mosque.
"After we left Barbara and lived in a tent, we eventually succeeded in building a house. But now, the situation is more than a catastrophe. I don't know what the future holds, and whether we will ever be able to rebuild our house again."
"And in the end I just want to go back to Barbara, with my whole extended family, and again taste the fruit that I remember from there."
Ayish's greatest desire is to return to the village, now in Israel, which he last saw when he was 12 – even though it no longer exists
On 9 October, Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The remaining living 20 Hamas-held hostages were returned to Israel and Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners.
Yet despite widespread rejoicing over the ceasefire, Ayish is not optimistic about the long-term prospects for Gaza.
"I hope the peace will spread and it will be calm," he says. "But I believe the Israelis will do whatever they like."
Under the agreement for the first stage of the ceasefire, Israel will retain control of more than half the Gaza Strip, including Rafah.
One question Ayish, his family and all Gazans are pondering is whether their homeland will ever be successfully rebuilt.
My 18 children and 79 grandchildren
Back in 1948, the Egyptian army had been one of five Arab armies that had invaded the British-controlled territory of Mandate Palestine the day after the establishment of a Jewish state, Israel. But they soon withdrew, defeated, from Barbara, prompting Ayish's decision to flee.
Ayish became a teacher when he was 19, and gained a literature degree in Cairo under a scholarship programme.
The best moment of his life, he says, was when he married his wife Khadija. Together they had 18 children. That, according to a newspaper article that once featured him, is a record – the largest number of children from the same mother and father of any Palestinian family.
Today, he has 79 grandchildren, two of them born in the last few months.
Ahmed Younis family archive
Ayish and his wife Khadija have 18 children - the highest number of children from the same mother and father of any Palestinian family, according to one newspaper article
The family would move from their first tent to a simple three-room cement house with an asbestos roof in the refugee camp, which they later extended to nine rooms – thanks partly to wages earned in Israel.
When the border between Israel and Gaza opened, and Ayish's eldest son Ahmed was one of many Palestinians who took advantage of that, working in an Israeli restaurant during his holidays, while studying medicine in Egypt.
"During that time, in Israel, people were paid very well. And this is the period of time where the Palestinians made most of their money," he says.
All but one of Ayish's children gained university degrees. They became engineers, nurses, teachers. Several moved abroad. Five are in Gulf countries and Ahmed, a specialist in spinal cord injuries, now lives in London. Many other Gazan families are similarly scattered.
Ayish's son Ahmed Younis is a specialist in spinal cord injuries and now lives in London
The Younis family, like many Gazans, wanted nothing to do with politics. Ayish became an imam at a Rafah mosque – and a local headman (or mukhtar) responsible for settling disputes, just as his uncle had been years earlier in the village of Barbara.
He was not appointed by the government – but he says that both Hamas and the Fatah political movement, the dominant party in the Palestinian authority, respected him.
That didn't save the family from tragedy, though, during the street battles of 2007, when Fatah and Hamas fought for control of the Strip. Ayish's daughter Fadwa was killed in cross-fire as she sat in a car.
The rest of the family survived through wars between Hamas and Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014 – as well as the devastating war triggered by the deadly Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Then came that evacuation order by the Israeli military who said they were carrying out operations against Hamas in the area, forcing them to leave their Rafah home and over a year spent living in makeshift tents.
Ayish's life has come full circle since 1948. But his greatest desire is to go even further back in time, to return to the village, now in Israel, which he last saw when he was 12 – even though it no longer exists.
Apart from clothes, cooking pots and a few other essentials, the only possessions he has with him in his tent are the precious title deeds to his ancestral land in Barbara.
'I don't believe Gaza has any future'
Thoughts are now turning to the reconstruction of Gaza.
But Ayish believes the extent of the destruction – of infrastructure, schools and health services – is so great that it cannot be fully repaired, even with the help of the international community.
"I don't believe Gaza has any future," he says.
He believes that his grandchildren could play a role in the reconstruction of Gaza if the ceasefire is fully implemented, but he does not believe they will be able to find jobs in the territory as good as those they have or could get abroad.
His son Haritha, a graduate in Arabic language who has four daughters and a son, is also living in a tent. "An entire generation has been destroyed by this war.
"We are unable to comprehend it," he says.
Ahmed Younis family archive
Ahmed (pictured right at a beach barbecue) is the eldest of parents' 18 children. His sister Fadwa was killed in cross-fire during a street battle
"We used to hear from our fathers and grandfathers about the 1948 war and how difficult the displacement was, but there is no comparison between 1948 and what happened in this war.
"We hope that our children will have a role in rebuilding, but as Palestinians, do we have the capacity on our own to rebuild the schools? Will donor countries play a role in that?"
"My daughter has gone through two years of war without schooling, and for two years before that schools were closed because of Covid," he continues. "I used to work in a clothing store, but it was destroyed.
"We don't know how things will unfold or how we will have a source of income. There are so many questions we have no answers for. We simply don't know what the future holds."
Another of Ayish's sons, Nizar, a trained nurse, who lives in a tent nearby, agrees. He believes Gaza's problems are so great that the youngest generation of the family will not be able to play much role, despite their high level of education.
"The situation is unbearable," he says. "We hope that life will return to how it was before the war. But the destruction is massive - total destruction of buildings and infrastructure, psychological devastation within the community, and the destruction of universities."
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The 1948 Palestinian exodus: 'We used to hear from our fathers and grandfathers about the 1948 war and how difficult the displacement was, but there is no comparison between [that] and this war'
Ayish's eldest son Ahmed, in London, meanwhile reflects on how it took the family more than 30 years to build their former home into what it eventually became - as money was saved over the years it was expanded, he explains.
"Do I have another 30 years to work and try to help and support my family? This is really the situation all the time - every 10 to 15 years, people lose everything and they come back to square one."
And yet he still dreams of living in Rafah again when he retires. "My brothers in the Gulf bought land in Rafah to come back and settle as well. My son, and my nephews and nieces - they want to go back."
With a pause, he adds: "By nature, I'm very optimistic, because I know how determined our Gaza people are. Trust me, they will go back and start to rebuild their lives again.
"The hope is always in the new generation to rebuild."
Top picture credit: AFP via Getty Images
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The Daily Mail runs two "royal bombshells". The first is a claim that "Epstein set Prince up with second sex abuse victim", and the second states that "Andrew told the Met to dig up dirt on Virginia". There have been "calls for police probe" as it says an "email reveals he procured private data for smear campaign".
The Sunday Telegraph echoes the Mail and relies on its reporting for its headline that "Andrew sought to dig up dirt on Giuffre". The prince "asked his taxpayer-funded police bodyguard to investigate sex abuse accuser", it writes. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to "cut 40p tax rate", according to The Telegraph. This puts him "at odds" with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
The Sunday Mirror also has a Royal exclusive. It says "revelations" in the posthumous book by Virginia Giuffre were the "final straw for King", calling them "Virginia's revenge". Ms Giuffre alleged she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions, including when she was aged 17 in 2001 at the London home of his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with grooming and sex trafficking girls for abuse by the paedophile financier Epstein. The prince made a payment to Ms Giuffre in an out-of-court settlement in 2022, after she had brought a civil case against him. He denies all the accusations against him. Ms Giuffre died earlier this year by suicide.
The Daily Star details the "bombshell claim in late Virginia Giuffre's memoir" that Prince Andrew had insisted she "sign a gagging order to avoid embarrassing Queen Elizabeth".
In yet another Royal exclusive, The Sun on Sunday says "Andrew axes Fergie party" in "new Royal shock". Sarah Ferguson's "66th birthday bash" was "cancelled as crisis over Epstein grew" for the Prince.
The Observer's front page is dominated by a snap of former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis's interview with Prince Andrew. The headline reads "he lied to me about Epstein".
The Sunday Times also has a royal story, saying that Prince William "wants to go further on Andrew and will ban him from coronation" when he becomes king. The paper follows up on the ongoing China spy case, saying a "spy suspect was stopped with suitcase of cash" after flying into Heathrow from China. It also claims that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's partner Laure Ferrari is "embroiled in a criminal investigation involving allegations of fraud" at the think tank where she served as executive director.
"Thousands of perverts" are "to be freed from jail early" writes the Sunday Express. They say "Labour's sentencing shake-up 'puts public at risk'."
The US state department says a Hamas attack on Palestinians would be a ceasefire violation
The US State Department says it has "credible reports" that Hamas is planning an "imminent" attack on civilians in Gaza, which it says would violate the ceasefire agreement.
A statement released on Saturday said a planned attack against Palestinians would be a "direct and grave" violation of the ceasefire agreement and "undermine the significant progress achieved through mediation efforts".
The state department did not not provide further details on the attack and it is unclear what reports it was citing.
The first phase of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel is currently in progress - all living hostages have been released and bodies of the deceased are still being returned to Israel.
Also part of the agreement, Israel freed 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.
Washington said it had already informed other guarantors of the Gaza peace agreement - which include Egypt, Qatar and Turkey - and demanded Hamas uphold its end of the ceasefire terms.
"Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire," the statement said.
Hamas has not yet commented on the statement.
President Donald Trump has previously warned Hamas against the killing of civilians.
"If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them," Trump said in a post on Truth Social earlier this week.
He later clarified that he would not be sending US troops into Gaza.
Last week, BBC Verify authenticated graphic videos that showed a public execution carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza.
The videos showed several men with guns line up eight people, whose arms were tied behind their backs, before killing them in a crowded square.
BBC Verify could not confirm the identity of the masked gunmen, though some appeared to be wearing the green headbands associated with Hamas.
So far, the remains of 10 out of 28 deceased hostages had been returned to Israel.
Separately on Saturday, 11 members of one Palestinian family were killed by an Israeli tank shell, according to the Hamas-run civil defence ministry, in what was the deadliest single incident involving Israeli soldiers in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire.
The Israeli military said soldiers had fired at a "suspicious vehicle" that had crossed the so-called yellow line demarcating the area still occupied by Israeli forces in Gaza.
There are no physical markers of this line, and it is unclear if the bus did cross it. The BBC has asked the IDF for the coordinates of the incident.
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.
At least 68,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as reliable.
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