Prince Andrew paid the compensation to Virginia Giuffre on the basis of an agreement reached with the woman who accused him of sexual harassment in a civil lawsuit in the United States.
It is not known the amount paid by the Duke of York - although the UK media speaks of 12 million pounds - to put an end to an affair that has deeply embarrassed British royalty, and which saw the Queen's son accused of abuse. about the woman, then a minor, with the complicity of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased billionaire pedophile at the center of a vast sex scandal.
The deed reached with the payment of the sum therefore allows the New York judge, Lewis Kaplan, to dismiss the civil case.
The lawyers of Prince Andrew do not confirm the figure hypothesized by the media and even if Queen Elizabeth or the heir to the throne,
Prince Charles, have advanced part of the sum, as was written in the British newspapers.
Just today the Duke of York returns to be seen for the first time after having reached an agreement with Giuffre: the Mail has published some photographs in which he is driving his Range Rover while leaving Windsor Castle.
Andrea had come to the decision to pay to close the legal case in order not to be dragged to the bar, causing serious damage to the image of the monarchy.
And behind that choice there would have been the pressing of the royal family intending to avoid a new scandal in the year marked by the celebrations of the Platinum Jubilee of the 70 years on the throne of His Majesty.
Elizabeth's third son also regretted his relationship with Epstein and pledged to support the battle against sexual abuse.
In recent months, however, the duke, by order of the queen and the court, had taken the revocation of military ranks and honors, of any representative office in the name of the Royal Family and of the right to be called "Royal Highness".