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“She wanted all her suffering to have accomplished something,” writes Amy Wallace, Virginia Giuffre’s collaborator, at the beginning of her bombshell posthumous memoirs, Nobody’s Girl.

Whether Prince Andrew relinquishing his titles amid heightened pressure over her accusations of sexual abuse was one of the aims, no one will ever know.

But what is known, from reading the 400-page diary-style book, is that Giuffre, who died by suicide aged 41 in April this year, was determined to tell her story of how power, corruption and alleged sex abuse colluded to leave victims, like her, scarred after years of alleged abuse.

Her harrowing and sometimes explicit testimony mentions Andrew 88 times, while also laying out detailed claims of how she was abused at the hands of paeophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

As the book is published on Tuesday, The Independent looks at the biggest revelations.

Giuffre ‘meets Andrew for first time in London’

Aged 17, Giuffre wrote that she was staying at Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell’s hous