Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's family have broken their silence after the ex-duke renounced his royal titles.
The family declared "vindication" after news broke of Andrew's agreement with the King - just days before the release of Ms Giuffre's bombshell memoir.
However, they insist the monarch must go further and rescind his title of prince altogether.
The statement read: "We, the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, believe that Prince Andrew's decision to give up his titles is vindication for our sister and survivors everywhere."
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They said the move was "a powerful step forward in our fight to bring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's child sex-trafficking network to justice".
The family also addressed fresh evidence which flies in the face of Andrew's public statements about his relationship with Epstein.
"This evidence starkly contradicts Prince Andrew's claims during his 2018 BBC interview, when he stated he had ceased all contact with Epstein in 2010," they said.
The evidence in question involves an email in which Andrew allegedly told the paedophile: "We are in this together".
The family declared 'vindication' after news broke of Andrew's agreement with the King
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He allegedly sent the email three months after he had claimed to have ended all communication with the convicted sex offender.
Ms Giuffre, before her death, maintained that Andrew engaged in sexual activity with her on three occasions when she was a minor, allegations the Duke of York has consistently rejected.
She went on to take her own life at her home in Western Australia in April this year.
Her book, "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice", is set to be released next week.
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PICTURED: Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, photographed together in 2000
| GETTYIn excerpts from the memoir published in The Guardian, she describes three occasions where Prince Andrew allegedly had sex with her, including at Ghislaine Maxwell's house in London.
The pair first met in London 24 years ago when she was 17.
Ms Giuffre's book details how she was woken up by Ghislaine Maxwell, and felt like "it was going to be a special day" in which she "was going to meet a handsome prince."
When Andrew later arrived, she claims that he was asked to guess her age.
PICTURED: Prince Andrew alongside Virginia Giuffre when she was 17 years old, taken at the Belgravia home of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell
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"The Duke of York, who was then 41, guessed correctly: 17. 'My daughters are just a little younger than you,' he told me, explaining his accuracy. As usual, Maxwell was quick with a joke: 'I guess we will have to trade her in soon.'," the memoir says.
The tell-all book even sheds light on the infamous image from Maxwell's Belgravia home.
"My mom would never forgive me if I met someone as famous as Prince Andrew and didn't pose for a picture," it says.
"I ran to get a Kodak FunSaver from my room, then returned and handed it to Epstein. I remember the prince putting his arm around my waist as Maxwell grinned beside me. Epstein snapped the photo," she writes.