A day after Prince Andrew and the complainant against him Virginia Joffre filed a settlement in court in New York, in the UK public anger is growing towards Andrew and the way he allegedly evaded justice, and especially around the astronomical amount he includes.
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At the same time, there are growing doubts about the way in which he will pay the "significant amount" he undertook as part of the arrangement to transfer to Jupra's charitable enterprise for victims of sexual exploitation.
According to a report in the British Telegraph, the significant amount is no less than 12 million pounds (ie over 16 million dollars) and that the person who will finance this huge expense is none other than the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth, who is estimated to have pushed for a settlement. The citizen will not mourn the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of her reign this summer and her legacy in general ahead of her full retirement from the public stage.
If he had not reached a compromise he would have expected to testify next month and drag the royal house into an endless saga into revelations and embarrassment, certainly if in the end the lawsuit would have ended to his detriment.
Although the Queen had previously financially supported the Duke's legal battles at various stages of the prosecution, she later announced out loud that his military titles would be revoked and he would no longer play a representative role in the royal house as well as fight his legal wars "as an individual."
The duke receives a pension as a former royal navy man, as well as monthly funding from the Queen's private fund but has not yet ruled out the possibility that the royal house, largely funded by the British taxpayer, will allow some of the funds to reach Andrew's legal goals.
"Requirements are likely to arise as to where the funding is coming from and whether it is from the public or private wallet," Kate McNab of Hadrin's law firm Reed Solicitors told the BBC.
Even groups opposed to the UK monarchy have jumped at the chance to attack the monarchy and investigate in depth whether the public budget will be used to fund Andrew's settlement.
Andrew and Joffre's lawsuit revolves around the claim that Andrew acted together with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to exploit her and dozens of other minors systematically for the purposes of sex and trafficking in women.
As you may recall, a U.S. court recently agreed to accept Andrew's position despite an old settlement agreement in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein gave Joffra half a million dollars after a lawsuit against him for allegations of pimping and sexual exploitation allegedly committed by Epstein on C 'And a cow.
In the emerging agreement Andrew declares that he "accepts the pain" that Joffre suffered from and even admits that "Epstein is known to trade countless girls" In addition Andrew "undertakes to show remorse for the friendship with Epstein by supporting the evil fight against sex trafficking and supporting victims".
Andrew, on the other hand, did not admit to him.
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