Miriam Cates has called for Prince Andrew to be “exiled” amid mounting pressure over his royal title.

Speaking on GB News, she joined a heated discussion on whether Parliament should strip the Duke of York of his status following renewed scrutiny of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Her remarks came during an exchange between GB News host Andrew Pierce and PR expert Piers Pottinger, who said the scandal was “doing the monarchy no good”.

Miriam added: “Once you start stripping titles, where do you stop? You could end up with the monarchy disintegrating, and we’d be left as a republic. It would be ghastly.”

Miriam Cates fumed that the prince should be exiled

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Political commentator Piers Pottinger said: “It’s an appalling situation, and it’s not doing the monarchy any good.

“But it is extraordinary, one thing that I think is often overlooked is that in the Epstein affair, which is colossal, it seems only the British are being dragged into it.

“Peter Mandelson, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew – they’re all British.

“And yet Epstein built a billion-dollar fortune in America, regularly hobnobbing with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Bill Clinton.

“All of the American figures in this appalling mess seem to have escaped scot-free.

“Why isn’t there an investigative journalist in America looking at how Epstein built his fortune?

“No one has yet come up with the answer to that. It wasn’t through property, so I believe it must have been through the stock exchange.

“The American angle of this is very sinister. It’s entirely focused on the British, and particularly Prince Andrew.

“Now, there’s no question that if he did what the late Virginia Giuffre alleges, it’s all very horrible, sordid and unpleasant.

“It would appear he hasn’t been totally truthful, not just with journalists, but with the British people. And that’s despicable here there’s a huge amount still under wraps.”

“But the whole Epstein picture has only been touched on by this aspect of it. I think there’s much more to come.

“Not just, sadly, for Andrew, but also in America.”

Prince Andrew announced on Friday that he was giving up his Duke of York title, his knighthood and his role as a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

However, Andrew will still retain his dukedom as only an act of Parliament can remove it from him.

Prince Andrew announced he was relinquishing his titles on Friday

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Some MPs are now calling for Parliament to intervene while others have said it is a decision for the Royal Family to lobby for the dukedom to be removed by Parliament.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader in Westminster, told The Telegraph: “I won’t sit silent – if an act of Parliament is required.”

He added: “There can be no justification from this Labour Government as to why that is not immediately happening.”