For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Email * SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice

Prince Andrew may have relinquished his royal titles, but his downfall appears to be far from over.

The royal – once widely believed to be Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite child – is facing calls to step away from public life for ever after harrowing details of the allegations against him were laid bare in Virginia Giuffre’s bombshell posthumous memoir.

The 65-year-old, who denies any wrongdoing, is also under mounting pressure to give up his 30-bedroom royal mansion and start cooperating with the FBI in their investigation of the paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The revelations have reignited calls for the Metropolitan Police to investigate the royal, after the force repeatedly declined to open a full inquiry into claims that he slept with Guiffre in London when she was 17.

The Met has looked into allegations relating to Andrew and Epstein’s activities in London three times, and opted not to investigate.

Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, said this week that if the Met refused to act, police watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) should review the decision. The IOPC has not received a referral on the issue, The Independent understands.

It has been more t