Virginia Giuffre’s words, etched in her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (released October 21, 2025), cut deeper than any royal blade: “I wasn’t a girl—I was a royal privilege.”
The line, from a chapter recounting her alleged first sexual assault by Prince Andrew at age 17 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s London townhouse in 2001, captures the chilling entitlement Giuffre perceived. “He treated me like an object, a perk of his position,” she wrote. “I wasn’t a girl with dreams—I was a royal privilege to be used and discarded.” The memoir, co-authored with Amy Wallace, names Andrew 88 times, detailing three assaults—in London, New York, and on Epstein’s Little Saint James island—where she felt “passed around like a platter of fruit.”
Giuffre, who died by suicide on April 25, 2025, at 41, completed the book insisting on unfiltered truth. The phrase “royal privilege” has become a rallying cry, trending globally under #RoyalPrivilege with 3.2 million posts (78% supportive). It prompted Andrew’s title relinquishment on October 17 and full revocation by King Charles III on October 30, amid Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosures.
Wallace told BBC Newsnight (October 20, 2025): “Virginia wanted readers to feel the dehumanization—she wasn’t seen as human, just a benefit of power.” The memoir’s raw indictment—exposing Maxwell’s grooming and Epstein’s blackmail cameras—ensures Giuffre’s silenced pain endures as a blade against impunity.
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