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Holding back tears, Virginia Giuffre’s brother has described what he thinks his sister would be doing after hearing the news of Andrew’s arrest, saying she would have used the opportunity to toast with her “survivor sisters”.
Giuffre, who claimed she was trafficked to engage in sex with Mountbatten-Windsor when she was 17, died by suicide in Western Australia last year.
Andrew denied the allegations but reached a settlement with her in 2022.
Virginia Giuffre in 2022, with a photo of herself as a teenager.GettySpeaking to 9 News earlier today, Giuffre’s brother Sky Roberts said the focus wouldn’t be on what his late sister would say, but “what she might do”.
“At this point, I think we have a feeling of vindication,” he said.
“She’d be popping open a little cork of champagne right here, and she’d be pouring it out for her survivor sisters, taking a sip and cheersing up and saying ‘hey girls, we’ve got a long way to go here but let’s take this one today’.”
Amanda Roberts, Giuffre’s sister-in-law, said she was asleep when her husband told her the news of the former prince’s arrest.
“It was so surreal, we had this spike of joy, celebration, and we couldn’t believe that something was actually happening here,” she said.
“It’s been hitting us in waves today, the exhaustion of the situation, but the moments of realising I can’t call my sister. I can’t call her, I can’t tell her how proud I am of her. We can’t tell her how much we love her and that everything she has been doing is not in vain.”
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