The disgraced Prince Andrew returns to the spotlight after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Her favorite son has been stripped of most of his titles and removed from royal duties due to his friendship with scandalous American financier Jeffrey Epstein and sexual abuse allegations in the United States.
The Duke of York has not been charged with any crime and denies any wrongdoing.
After a time out of the public eye, the 62-year-old is back in the spotlight after his mother’s death served as a reminder of his fall from grace.
A Royal Navy veteran of the Falklands War, he was refused permission to wear the uniform during two funerals when he and his brothers walked behind the queen’s coffin.
King Charles III, Princess Anne and Prince Edward wore military uniforms and he wore a suit, drawing attention to his special status. He will be allowed to wear the uniform as a special sign of respect for the queen during the final vigil, which will be attended by the children of Elizabeth II.
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Last week in Edinburgh, a man in the audience shouted: “Andrew, you are a sick old man“.
He was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. But if this has been a rare case of strong public outcry, that sentiment seems to be more widely shared.
“There is no place for Andrew in the future of the family or the country, but I think the queen did the right thing by excluding him. He brought shame, but I think his family knows what the British think of himMary Burke, a 47-year-old woman from Brighton, told Reuters as she waited in a long line to pay her respects to the Queen in London.
The aristocrat did not attend the events where the royals greeted the public, other than making a brief appearance outside Balmoral Castle two days after Elizabeth II’s death.
He stripped Prince Andrew at the beginning of the year of his title of Royal Highness, his honorary military ranks and the right to be patron of charities, as well as to perform official functions due to the lawsuit filed in 2021 by Virginia Giuffre in the USA. , who accuses him of sexual assault, recalls BTA. He categorically denied the guilt. In February of this year it became clear that Andrew had reached a financial settlement with the American woman and had pledged to make a large donation to Giuffre’s charity. This did not lead to a lawsuit against him in the United States.
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