London —

Pressure is intensifying on Britain’s Prince Andrew, who has failed to quell the scandal over his association with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

There has been an avalanche of headlines in recent days, in the run up to the publication of a posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” by his accuser Virginia Giuffre. The royal family will have hoped Andrew’s decision on Friday to give up the use of his royal titles and honors would put an end to the saga. But it has not.

Once celebrated as a decorated war hero, Andrew, the brother of King Charles III, has been thrown into the royal wilderness, not even invited to spend Christmas with his family at their Sandringham estate, according to a royal source.

Andrew insists he never met Giuffre, who accused the prince of sexually assaulting her while she was a teenager, and has always denied accusations of wrongdoing against him. Critics say the royal family and UK government need to go further to hold the disgraced royal to account. Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.

How close were Prince Andrew and Epstein?

Prince Andrew was one of the many high-profile individuals to associate with Epstein. Andrew has said the pair were introduced by Epstein’s then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in 1999. He later said they met “infrequently,” adding that their encounters were “probably no more than only once or twice a year.”

He also admitted to staying at several properties belonging to the disgraced financier, who was found dead in his New York prison cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

Andrew is known to have attended a charity fundraiser at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in 2000, at which Maxwell was also present, according to photographs published in the Palm Beach Post at the time.

Melania Trump, Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck and Jeffrey Epstein at a part