Royal future looks bleak for Prince Andrew without supportive Queen Elizabeth
18.09.2022 - 14:29
/ msn.com
was allowed to don his naval uniform to mount a vigil at his late mother’s coffin last week, few expect to see him in it again. The King has made clear that there will be no reprieve for his younger brother. He has repeatedly insisted that the controversy surrounding the Duke should not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of the monarchy and has personally stepped in more than once in recent months to keep him out of the public eye.
Those closest to the Duke, 62, acknowledge that in the weeks and months ahead, he will have to sit down with the monarch and thrash out a plan for his future. No one believes it will involve any semblance of a return to royal duty. The Queen had been the Duke's biggest champion in recent years.
At times, barring the vocal and unwavering support of his former wife, the Duchess of York, she was his only champion. “Andrew took great comfort in his mother’s support, particularly when he found himself engulfed in scandal over his links with Jeffrey Epstein,” one friend told the Telegraph. “He could count on her and relied heavily on her counsel.
”Throughout recent years, when the Duke’s friendship with Epstein, the convicted sex offender, repeatedly threatened the reputation and future of the monarchy, the Queen did her utmost to steady the ship. The first explosive claim that 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, had repeatedly been forced to have sex with the Duke first came to light in January 2015. Buckingham Palace issued its first denial, stating that any suggestion he was involved in impropriety with underage minors was “categorically untrue”.
The Queen was said to be horrified. But crucially, she believed her son when he told her he had done nothing wrong. That
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