Prince Andrew ‘gagged’ Virginia Giuffre to stop her tarnishing the Queen’s platinum jubilee, memoir says
In her memoirs, Prince Andrew said that Virginia Giuffre, who had accused him of sexual harassment, told Queen Elizabeth II. It has emerged that Elizabeth insisted he accept a one-year speaking ban so as not to undermine his platinum anniversary in 2022.
Andrew renounced the use of his titles and honors, including that of Duke of York, on Friday after facing increasing pressure from King Charles in the wake of the long-running Epstein scandal.
In her posthumous memoir, published next Tuesday, Ms. Giuffre details allegations of abuse against the disgraced prince and greater attention on his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
He describes how Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight interview was like a “jet fuel injection” for his legal team, raising the prospect of “subpoenaing” his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie and drawing them into the case. Telegram.
Ms. Giuffre said she received “more” from Andrew than the reported $12 million payment and his $2 million donation to charity because “he acknowledged that I and many other women had been victimized and made an implicit promise to never deny it again.”
The former Duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault lawsuit filed against him in 2022, despite insisting he had never met Ms Giuffre.
A 2019 Newsnight interview that he hoped would clear his name backfired when he said he had “no regrets” about his friendship with Epstein, the convicted pedophile who kidnapped Ms Giuffre.
He was heavily criticized for his lack of sympathy for the sex offender’s victims.
Andrew also said he had “no recollection” of meeting Ms Giuffre, adding that he could not have had sex with her in March 2001 because he was at Pizza Express with his daughter Beatrice on the day in question.
Ms Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with the prince three times, including when she was 17 after being trafficked by Epstein, which Andrew vehemently denies.
Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth was celebrating her platinum jubilee in 2022, the first British monarch to achieve that milestone, as the civil case against her son gathers pace. It was dissolved just nine days after its membership reached its 70th anniversary.
Ms. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, explained in her book: “I agreed to a one-year speaking ban, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother’s platinum anniversary was not tarnished any more than it had already been.”
In January 2022, a US judge ruled that the civil case against Andrew could proceed, with the Queen stripping Andrew of his honorary military roles and the prince giving up his HRH style.
In February of that year, court documents showed that Andrew and Ms. Giuffre had reached an “agreement in principle” over the alleged marital sex.
Legal documents revealed that Andrew “made a significant donation to Ms. Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights” and vowed to “demonstrate his remorse for his relationship with Epstein” by “fighting the evils of sex trafficking and supporting its victims.”
The agreement avoids a public hearing, sparing the monarchy from controversy over an in-depth investigation into Ms. Giuffre’s allegations in a year when the Queen is preparing to attend a long anniversary celebration in June.
The Queen’s favorite son reportedly stayed behind closed doors for the jubilee and missed church service, announcing the day before that he had caught Covid.
In her book, Nobody’s Daughter, Ms. Giuffre described how she “built walls” against Andrew’s legal team for months before settlement talks began moving too quickly when he was scheduled to be deposed in March 2022.
Ms Giuffre also wrote about how she was “revolted” to see “two of my abusers” together in the photo of Andrew walking with Epstein in New York in 2011, and how she was “surprised” that a member of the royal family would be “stupid” enough to appear in public with the convicted pedophile.
Independent He approached Buckingham Palace for comment.
