Prince Andrew Stripped of Duties and Salary Amid Scandal

In shock news overnight, Queen Elizabeth has sacked Prince Andrew-- summoning a distraught Duke of York to Buckingham Palace, ordering him to step down from public duties and stripping him of his $320,000 salary amid fall-out from his friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  "Randy Andy" will keep his grace-and-favor home in Windsor and cash will still come in from his mother's Duchy of Lancaster estate.

The Duke of York is being urged to fly to the U.S. to speak to the FBI with lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein's victims warning him 'any delay' would lead to FBI agents heading to London to interview him before Christmas. 

The Queen took decisive action against her second son in a desperate bid to contain the fall-out from the duke's disastrous BBC interview about his years of friendship with the pedophile.   Prince Charles, who is in New Zealand with his wife Camilla, is said to have stepped in and made it clear his younger brother be stripped of all royal duties.

Andrew has been pilloried for his TV performance because of a lack of contrition for his friendship with the pedophile and his failure to express sympathy for the dozens of women Epstein trafficked and abused over three decades.

His alibis for not having sex with Virginia Roberts three times including being in Woking's Pizza Express have also been widely ridiculed by the public. And now his claim he was with Britain's consul general in New York when Roberts said they slept together in 2001 was flat-out contradicted by the diplomat in question, Sir Thomas Harris, who said last night: 'I don't recall him staying with me'.