{"id":452573,"date":"2026-03-01T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:18:07","slug":"disgraced-andrew-begged-william-for-forgiveness-but-reply-was-brutal-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452573\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Andrew &#8216;begged William for forgiveness&#8217; but reply was brutal | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew was seen standing next to William outside Westminster Cathedral, with the former Duke of York attempting to speak to his nephew, who turned away. A lipreader, appearing on Channel 5&#8217;s Lipreading the Royals, has revealed what they believe Andrew said to William. He reportedly said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve learned from what I&#8217;ve done. But before I forget, I&#8217;d like to ask you if you can forgive?&#8221; This appears to show the bombshell moment that Andrew would have worked out that there would be no going back with his nephew.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Andrew can no longer use the style Duke of York after he and The Firm determined his public controversies were proving a distraction from the Royal Family&#8217;s duties, with his titles to enter &#8220;abeyance&#8221;. He confirmed in a statement that the decision means he will not &#8220;use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-andrew\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Andrew<\/a> has always strenuously denied any allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first. I stand by my decision five years ago to stand back from public life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move to strip his titles follows Prince Andrew&#8217;s persistent presence in British headlines, primarily due to his former links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was accused of having sex with Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein&#8217;s victims, who alleged she was just 17 when she was paid \u00a315,000 to have sex with the royal.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, who had consistently denied the allegations, reached an out-of-court settlement in 2022 worth \u00a312m to prevent a civil trial with Giuffre proceeding. The settlement did not include an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew was seen standing next to William outside Westminster Cathedral, with the former Duke of York attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15276,162773,99770,96,59,2177,120,163615,56,54,55,163616,20041],"class_list":{"0":"post-452573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-andrew","9":"tag-andrew-arrest","10":"tag-andrew-mountbatten-windsor","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gb","13":"tag-prince-andrew","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-royal-titles-removal","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-virginia-giuffre-settlement","20":"tag-william"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}