Process and embarrassments avoided, but no hope of redemption in the official representative roles lost, within the British royal family, for Prince Andrew who could also risk losing the title of Duke of York. This is what the royal correspondents write in the overseas press following the announcement of the mega extrajudicial settlement that put an end to the civil lawsuit filed in the United States against the third child of Queen Elizabeth for alleged sexual abuse by Veronica Giuffre: one of the victims by the late American fixer-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who claimed she was induced to have intimate relationships with Andrea in 2001 at the age of 17.
The newspapers are not unanimous on the amount agreed to close the case. The Daily Mail assumes a total of 7.5 million pounds, the Telegraph rises to 12 million, American experts calculate “at least 10 million dollars”: including the main sum – destined to go directly to Giuffre – and the contributions that the prince he has committed through his lawyers to pay for campaigns in defense of abused women and girls. It also remains to be seen whether the compensation will be entirely borne by the prince – who continues to receive an annual prerogative of approximately 21 million pounds through the fund of the Duchy of Lancaster, controlled by Buckingham Palace – or will instead be partly co-financed with money. public from his mother: as claimed by sources cited by the Telegraph itself, despite the fact that the court had suggested days ago to exclude any such eventuality, given the opposition attributed to the heir to the throne Charles and his son William.
Certainly the controversy subsides, in the midst of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth’s 70-year reign, but it does not go out.
While an opposition Labor MP, Rachael Maskell, openly pleads that Andrea now also loses the residual title of Duke of York. And, indeed, he “renounces” spontaneously if the statements with which he expressed “regret” for his past acquaintances with Epstein “are sincere”.
Source: Ansa
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