Charles Bankrolled Andrew’s Escape From Court—And the Blame Game Is Over

New reporting shows Charles personally contributed £1.5 million to Andrew’s settlement—undercutting months of briefings blaming Elizabeth II for the crisis.

King Charles can no longer plausibly pretend that the Prince Andrew disaster is something that just happened to him, or worse, something that can be laid entirely at the feet of his late mother.

We now know, thanks to a report in the Sun, that the then-Prince of Wales personally contributed around £1.5 million of the roughly £12 million settlement that brought Virginia Giuffre’s silence in her civil sexual abuse case against Andrew.