A brand new ebook has revealed Queen Elizabeth’s response to her son’s Newsnight interview.
Queen Elizabeth ‘didn’t consider’ Andrew ‘had behaved improperly’ (Picture: Getty)
Queen Elizabeth “didn’t consider” her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor “had behaved improperly” regardless of the allegations levelled in opposition to him about his shut relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, a brand new ebook has claimed. Royal writer Hugo Vickers writes in his new ebook Queen Elizabeth II that the late monarch disbelieved the allegations made in opposition to her second son.
Virginia Giuffre alleged that Andrew sexually assaulted her in 2001, when she was aged 17. The previous prince has vehemently denied the allegations. Andrew paid hundreds of thousands to Ms Giuffre, a girl he has claimed by no means to have met, to settle a civil sexual assault declare in 2022 with no admission of legal responsibility.
The Queen’s view of her son was unchanged by his disastrous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis, which was met with riotous disbelief, anger and mockery from the general public on account of his weird excuses of being unable to sweat and claims he was at Pizza Categorical in Woking on the day he was alleged to have met with Ms Giuffre.
Mr Vickers writes in his ebook: “Regardless of his car-crash interview on Newsnight, and different obvious revelations, the Queen didn’t consider he had behaved improperly. It’s lucky that she didn’t stay to witness the denouement.”
It’s understood that the King recognised the disaster prompted his mom “appreciable misery”, however she wouldn’t settle for the allegations. That is exemplified by her occasion that Andrew acted as her escort on the March 2022 memorial service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.
The writer provides: “Andrew’s issues prompted the Queen appreciable misery within the final years of her life. She was deeply involved about his future. One thought, developed within the final yr of her life, was to arrange a basis that Andrew might administer.”
In response to the outcry over Andrew’s interview, the place he stated he didn’t remorse being buddies with Epstein, the previous monarch sacked her son from enterprise royal duties. This successfully noticed him eliminated as a senior working royal.
Andrew was lengthy thought-about Queen Elizabeth’s favorite baby (Picture: Getty)
In 2022, it was additionally agreed that he would stop to make use of his HRH type. Queen Elizabeth died later that yr.
Since then, a collection of contemporary allegations regarding Andrew have been made, and new particulars of his relationship with the convicted intercourse offender got here beneath scrutiny after the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata firstly of this yr.
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Andrew was stripped of his remaining royal titles on the finish of final yr and was compelled to surrender his 30-room mansion on the Windsor Property.
Final month, he was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public workplace. He continues to disclaim wrongdoing.
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