Disgraced Prince Andrew is a “poisonous” presence within the royal household who gained’t be returning to his duties anytime quickly, a report claimed Sunday.
The scandal-scarred Duke of York was booted from royal duties six months in the past after attempting to justify his friendship with lifeless pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a train-wreck BBC interview.
Since then, he’s been stricken by different controversies, together with getting sued by a former buddy over $eight million he allegedly owes for a ski chalet bought in 2014.
And a brand new Netflix docu-series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Wealthy,” resurfaced allegations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims she was intercourse trafficked to the prince by Epstein on a minimum of three events when she was 17. He has denied the allegations.
Royal sources described Andrew to the UK’s Sunday Instances as a “busted flush,” whose presence within the household is “poisonous.”
The royal household has “no plans to evaluate” Andrew’s place and Queen Elizabeth II is resigned to her so-called favourite son’s withdrawal from public life, in keeping with the Instances.
The 60-year-old royal — who had hoped his standing change within the household would solely be short-term — not too long ago employed PR specialist Mark Gallagher in an effort to clear his title and clean-up his picture, the report stated.
Final month, he was photographed in a uncommon look with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, packing up reward luggage for British hospice staff through the coronavirus pandemic.
The royal household instructed the paper that nothing has modified since Andrew’s November announcement that he was stepping again from his duties “for the foreseeable future.”
