Letters patent refers to the legal document \u2013 issued as an \u201copen letter\u201d \u2013 which outlines the decision of the monarch, usually following ministerial consultation.<\/p>\n
Ghislaine Maxwell, right, with Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre. Photo \/ PA Media<\/p>\n
The King\u2019s formal notice follows his statement<\/a>, released via Buckingham Palace last Thursday, which stated that he would no longer use the title \u201cprince\u201d and will move out of the Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n \u201cThese censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he [Andrew] continues to deny the allegations against him,\u201d it went on.<\/p>\n \u201cTheir Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n It came after outrage and renewed scrutiny after the release of Virginia Giuffre\u2019s posthumous memoir, Nobody\u2019s Girl.<\/p>\n Before her death earlier this year, Giuffre, formerly known as Virginia Roberts, alleged that she\u2019d had three sexual encounters with Andrew, including once when she was just 17, while she was being sex trafficked by Epstein.<\/p>\n Andrew has firmly denied all allegations of wrongdoing and has also denied ever meeting Giuffre.<\/p>\n In 2022, he settled a civil case she brought against him in the US for a reported $24 million, which came with no admission of liability.<\/p>\n It has been reported Andrew will move to the King\u2019s Norfolk home of Sandringham, in England\u2019s east<\/a>, and that any future accommodation will be privately funded by the King.<\/p>\n The BBC has reported that Andrew did not object to the King\u2019s decision last week.<\/p>\n \u201cThe decision was made, and action taken, due to serious lapses in Andrew\u2019s judgement, it is understood,\u201d reported the British public broadcaster.<\/p>\n It was further reported that the UK government was consulted and stated in conversations with the Palace that it \u201csupported the decision\u201d.<\/p>\n The scandal around Andrew had been growing in recent weeks, with Channel 4 News reporting that authorities are set to look into allegations that royal protection officers obstructed lawyers attempting to serve legal papers to the then-Duke of York at Royal Lodge in 2021 after he was accused of sexually abusing Giuffre.<\/p>\n London\u2019s Metropolitan Police also recently confirmed it was \u201cactively\u201d looking into claims that the prince attempted to use his taxpayer-funded police protection officer to try and dig into the past of his sex abuse accuser.<\/p>\n Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letters patent refers to the legal document \u2013 issued as an \u201copen letter\u201d \u2013 which outlines the decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,9092,20251,31468,9861,34088,156,5504,9860,20494,111,139,69,5908,59966,3459,21411,4940,3109,8244,9343,3057,18932,2791,1120,2563],"class_list":["post-124512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-against","tag-andrew","tag-brother","tag-charles","tag-delivered","tag-entertainment","tag-following","tag-king","tag-mounting","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-official","tag-officially","tag-pledge","tag-pressure","tag-prince","tag-public","tag-recent","tag-statement","tag-steps","tag-strip","tag-style","tag-takes","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}