Prince Andrew ‘Galed’ Virginia Giffre to Stop Her Tarnishing the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Memoir Says | EUROtoday

Prince Andrew insisted that his sexual abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre, comply with a one-year gag order to keep away from undermining Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee in 2022, her memoirs have revealed.

Andrew relinquished the usage of his titles and honours on Friday, together with his Duke of York title, after dealing with mounting strain from King Charles following the long-lasting Epstein scandal.

In her posthumous memoir launched subsequent Tuesday, Ms Giuffre exposes particulars of additional consideration on the allegations of abuse in opposition to the disgraced prince and his relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

She tells how Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview was like an “injection of jet fuel” for her authorized crew, and it raised the opportunity of “subpoenaing” his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie and drawing them into the authorized case, based on The Telegraph.

Ms Giuffre stated she received “more out of” Andrew than a reported 12-million-dollar payout and two-million-dollar donation to her charity as a result of she had “an acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again”.

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The former duke paid thousands and thousands to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre in 2022, regardless of insisting he had by no means met her.

His 2019 Newsnight interview, which he hoped would clear his identify, backfired when he stated he “did not regret” his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein, who trafficked Ms Giuffre.

He was closely criticised for failing to point out sympathy with the intercourse offender’s victims.

Andrew additionally stated he had “no recollection” of ever assembly Ms Giuffre and added he couldn’t have had intercourse along with her in March 2001 as a result of he was at Pizza Express along with his daughter Beatrice on the day in query.

Ms Giuffre alleged, which Andrew vehemently denies, that she was pressured to have intercourse with the prince on three events, together with when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein.

Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating her platinum jubilee in 2022 – the primary British monarch to achieve the milestone – because the civil case in opposition to her son gathered tempo. It was settled simply 9 days after she reached the seventieth anniversary of her accession.

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Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, revealed in her guide: “I agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s platinum jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been.”

In January 2022, a US decide dominated the civil case in opposition to Andrew may go forward, and the Queen went on to strip him of his honorary navy roles, with the prince additionally giving up his HRH fashion.

In February of that yr, court docket paperwork confirmed Andrew and Ms Giuffre had reached a “settlement in principle” within the civil intercourse declare.

Andrew made a “substantial donation to Ms Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights”, and pledged to “demonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein” by supporting the “fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims”, the authorized papers revealed.

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The settlement averted a public trial, saving the monarchy from the controversy of an in-depth investigation into Ms Giuffre’s claims in a yr when the Queen was getting ready to participate in an prolonged June weekend of jubilee celebrations.

The Queen’s reported favorite son stayed behind closed doorways for the jubilee and missed the church service, having introduced the day earlier than that he had Covid.

In her guide, Nobody’s Girl, Ms Giuffre instructed how Andrew had “stonewalled” her authorized crew for months earlier than settlement discussions started transferring in a short time when his deposition was scheduled for March 2022.

Ms Giuffre additionally wrote how she was “revolted” to see “two of my abusers together” when Andrew was pictured strolling with Epstein in New York in 2011 and “amazed” {that a} member of the royal household could be “stupid enough” to look in public with the convicted paedophile.

The Independent has approached Buckingham Palace for remark.