A parade of scandals tarnished the prince’s reputation, long before he gave up using his title as Duke of York on Friday.

The robbers employed a portable electric ladder to break into a second-floor wing of the Paris museum that holds the French crown jewels.

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A parade of scandals tarnished the prince’s reputation, long before he gave up using his title as Duke of York on Friday.

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The royal’s fall from grace began nearly six years ago with a calamitous BBC television interview about his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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