\u201cI think there\u2019s much more still to come out. And I think that was what was worrying them that they were best to distance himself before, before these new allegations arose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lownie specifically named William, who he claimed felt the former Duke of Kent had become \u201ca distraction from the wider work of the royal family\u201d.<\/p>\n
Andrew and William were pictured together at the Duchess of Kent\u2019s funeral last month, with royal watchers speculating the future King had rebuffed his uncle\u2019s attempts at conversation. <\/p>\n
The relationship between the two has reportedly been strained since Andrew was accused of sexual assault by Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2015, implicating him in Epstein\u2019s infamous sex trafficking ring.<\/p>\n
Giuffre\u2019s memoir, set to be released next week, is expected to detail her allegations against the disgraced royal.<\/p>\n
He reiterated a denial of the accusations in yesterday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
Lownie speculated Prince Andrew\u2019s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, is likely to be most affected by his demotion.<\/p>\n
Without the title of Duchess of York, he said, \u201cfor her money-making activities, it\u2019s going to be a bit of a blur\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former couple\u2019s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, will retain their titles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI think there\u2019s much more still to come out. And I think that was what was worrying them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20251,62032,806,29385,14134,20733,305,42,66777,13640,11946,43,61492,4940,66778,25995,205,9855,8841,21638,40,38,41,39,810,10744,13971,6730],"class_list":["post-88373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-andrew","tag-andrews","tag-as","tag-believes","tag-decision","tag-gives","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-historian","tag-important","tag-influence","tag-news","tag-played","tag-prince","tag-relinquish","tag-remaining","tag-role","tag-royal","tag-suspected","tag-titles","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up","tag-william","tag-williams","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88373","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=88373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}