PRINCE ANDREW’S team tried to hire internet trolls to hassle his accuser Virginia Giuffre, according to her posthumous memoirs.

The fresh allegations came as more MPs backed calls to introduce a law to officially strip the disgraced royal of his dukedom, while campaigners are demanding the abolition of the monarchy altogether.

It comes after excerpts of Ms Giuffre’s book released in the Guardian said that the prince had sex with her aged 17 like it was his “birthright” and partook in an “orgy” with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and eight girls who “all appeared to be under the age of 18.”

The prince voluntarily relinquished his ducal title on Friday, though it has not been formally removed. He continues to reside in the lavish 30-bedroom Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate.

“Nothing has really changed for Andrew,” an article in the Times said, adding that according to visitors, he “spends much of his time playing video games.”

Campaigners Republic wrote on X: “He’s facing no real consequences for this. He’s had a slap on the wrist and continues to lounge around in a palatial home.” 

Ms Giuffre’s harrowing testimony, due to be published in full tomorrow, describes how she was forced to have sex with the prince three times after being trafficked by Mr Epstein. 

Andrew paid a reported £12 million to Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case in 2022, despite claiming never to have met her.

Writing about the settlement, she said it was difficult to serve the prince legal papers as he had hidden behind the “well-guarded gates” of Balmoral.

Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, said that his team “had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me.”

The Mail on Sunday reported that Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded police protection officer to investigate Ms Giuffre in 2011, just hours before the paper published a photograph of the royal with his hands around her. The Met said it is “looking into” the claims.

Pressure is mounting for Andrew’s dukedom to be formally stripped through parliamentary legislation.

Plaid Cymru’s Liz Saville-Roberts said: “Public funds, police protection and royal privilege have long buffered Prince Andrew from the consequences of his actions. 

“I will support any efforts to hold royals to the same standards and laws as everyone else — Parliament must have the power to remove privileges from abusers of position.”

SNP leader at Westminster Stephen Flynn said he would “not sit silent” while the Ms Giuffre’s family, and the British public, are “angry and aghast.”

Independent MP for York Central Rachael Maskell has long called for a change in the law that would allow the King to remove titles directly.

“I do find it incredibly strange that you can give a title but you can’t remove a title,” she told BBC’s Today programme.

“I really do trust that Parliament will take this seriously and recognise there are opportunities here to address the wrongs of history and to ensure that the voices of victims and survivors are really heard and acted upon.”

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told LBC that the issue “isn’t for the government to insert ourselves into.”

A royal source told the BBC that there are no plans for the removal of the title of prince that Andrew was born with.

Republic reiterated that the monarchy should be abolished altogether and that there should be a probe into the whole family.

Lead campaigner from the group Graham Smith wrote on X: “Talk of losing titles is nonsense, there needs to be police investigations and an inquiry into the royal cover-up.”