Queen helped with Prince Andrew settlement by agreeing to pay £2m to sex abuse charity
17.02.2022 - 02:31
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The Queen aided Prince Andrew's settlement of his civil sex case by making a personal donation of £2million donation to his alleged victim Virginia Giuffre’s charity, it can be revealed.
It has also emerged that Her Majesty is allowing her disgraced son to keep his title of Queen’s Counsellor of State as well as his dukedom and service rank of Vice-Admiral - despite pressure to remove all remaining privileges, the Mirror reports.
As part of the terms of the £2m deal, drawn up by the royal family's most senior advisors and the Duke of York’s legal team, the Queen agreed to help the Prince on the condition that she was not connected to any personal payment made to Ms Giuffre, it is believed.
A royal source said: “She could not be seen to be making a payment to a victim of sexual assault, who accused her son of being an abuser.
“But a deal was structured in such a way to arrange a sizeable financial contribution to the settlement by way of a charitable donation instead.”
There are growing calls for clarity on exactly how Andrew will fund the £12million payout, with demands that none of it be paid from public money.
David McClure, author of The Queen’s True Worth, told the Mirror: “The sums involved in Prince Andrew’s settlement are extraordinary so the public do have a right to know if public money, or indeed the Queen’s personal funds, were used. But I wouldn’t hold your breath.”
The Queen and Prince Charles jointly weighed in on Andrew, putting him under intense pressure after he was last month ordered to face a civil trial by jury in the United States.
The subsequent £12million settlement with Virginia Giuffre, who claimed she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions in 2001 after being trafficked by his