On Andrés’s Twitter account @TheDukeOfYork there is now a message that says “This account does not exist”. His YouTube profile also appears with an error message and a picture of a monkey. The prince’s Instagram and Facebook pages appear to still be open, although his Instagram page is set to private.
The Daily Mail quoted a source close to the prince, 61, stating that these accounts were also deleted and are no longer active.
This comes after it was announced last week that the prince has stopped using his title of HRH, or His Royal Highness, and also renounced honorary military titles bestowed by the queen.
This measure separates him from official real life.
His accuser, Victoria Giuffre, testified that she had sex with the prince at the age of 17, after meeting him through the late American financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The prince denies the allegations but lost an attempt to dismiss the civil suit.
Andrés retired from public life as a member of royalty in 2019 after an interview with the BBC widely ridiculed, in which he tried to vindicate himself from the accusation of having sexually assaulted a minor.
Since then he has occasionally been photographed driving or riding a horse around the queen’s private estate in the east of England, but did not appear in official photographs from her daughter Beatrice’s wedding in 2020.
In other signs of social ostracism, a British horse racing event, the Duke of York Stakes, will change its name to avoid any connection to the prince.
And a police station in Devon, in the south of England, removed a plaque saying it had been unveiled by the Duke of York, citing a complaint from a member of the public, the media reported. BBC In the past week.