PALACE aides are exasperated and frustrated by fresh revelations over Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.
He faces calls to be stripped of all royal privileges after it was revealed he lied in his 2019 Newsnight interview.
On November 16, 2019, Andrew told Emily Maitlis during his BBC Newsnight interview that he had no contact with Epstein after December 2010.
In December 2010, Andrew met Epstein in Central Park for what he claimed was his last contact with him.
On February 27, 2011, an image showing Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, with Ghislaine Maxwell standing nearby, was published for the first time.
The Duke of York, 65, was already unlikely to be at family events this year.
But insiders admit they lack new levers to apply pressure.
An aide said: “There is exasperation and frustration at new revelations and that there is nothing much more that can be done. Everything that can be done has been.”
The Duke had insisted on Newsnight he last had contact with Epstein in December 2010 when they were pictured in New York’s Central Park.
But he emailed the convicted paedophile three months later — the day after being pictured with Virginia Giuffre — telling Epstein: “We are in this together.”
He was stripped of his military titles in 2022 and the King ended his funding last year.
He has a cast-iron lease to stay in Royal Lodge, Windsor, until 2078.
Campaign group Republic called for a police probe.
Former MP Norman Baker said the Royal Family should publicly disown the Duke.
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