{"id":7650,"date":"2025-10-18T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7650\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:07:25","slug":"andrew-gagged-virginia-giuffre-to-avoid-ruining-queens-jubilee-memoir-says-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7650\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew \u2018gagged\u2019 Virginia Giuffre to avoid ruining Queen\u2019s jubilee, memoir says \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Andrew insisted his accuser Virginia Giuffre sign a one-year gag order to prevent tarnishing the late Queen\u2019s platinum jubilee, her memoirs have revealed.<\/p>\n

Andrew dramatically relinquished his Duke of York title and remaining honours on Friday evening in a bid by the King, in consultation with the Prince of Wales, to bring an end to the long-lasting scandal.<\/p>\n

But Ms Giuffre\u2019s posthumous book, which is due out on Tuesday, is focusing further attention on the sexual assault allegations and the prince\u2019s friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein which led to the royal\u2019s downfall.<\/p>\n

She tells how Andrew\u2019s disastrous Newsnight was like an \u201cinjection of jet fuel\u201d for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of \u201csubpoenaing\u201d his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie and drawing them into the legal case, The Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n

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Ms Giuffre said she got \u201cmore out of\u201d Andrew than a reported 12-million-dollar payout and two-million-dollar donation to her charity because she had \u201can acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"PrincePrince Andrew\u2019s Newsnight interview led to the possibility of involving Sarah Ferguson and their daughters in the civil case (Jordan Pettitt\/PA) <\/p>\n

The former duke paid millions to settle a civil sexual assault case with Ms Giuffre in 2022, despite insisting he had never met her.<\/p>\n

His 2019 Newsnight interview, which he hoped would clear his name, backfired when he said he \u201cdid not regret\u201d his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein, who trafficked Ms Giuffre.<\/p>\n

He was heavily criticised for failing to show sympathy with the sex offender\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n

Andrew also said had \u201cno recollection\u201d of ever meeting Ms Giuffre and added he could not have had sex with her in March 2001 because he was at Pizza Express with his daughter Beatrice on the day in question.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe then-Duke of York speaking about his links to Jeffrey Epstein in an interview with BBC Newsnight\u2019s Emily Maitlis (Mark Harrison\/BBC\/PA) <\/p>\n

Ms Giuffre alleged, which Andrew vehemently denies, that she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein.<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating her platinum jubilee in 2022 \u2013 the first British monarch to reach the milestone \u2013 as the civil case against her son gathered pace. It was settled just nine days after she reached the 70th anniversary of her accession.<\/p>\n

Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, revealed in her book: \u201cI agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother\u2019s platinum jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe then-Duke of York, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell (US Department of Justice\/PA) <\/p>\n

In January 2022, a US judge ruled the civil case against Andrew could go ahead, and the Queen went on to strip him of his honorary military roles, with the prince also giving up his HRH style.<\/p>\n

In February of that year, court documents showed Andrew and Ms Giuffre had reached a \u201csettlement in principle\u201d in the civil sex claim.<\/p>\n

Andrew made a \u201csubstantial donation to Ms Giuffre\u2019s charity in support of victims\u2019 rights\u201d, and pledged to \u201cdemonstrate his regret for his association with Epstein\u201d by supporting the \u201cfight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims\u201d, the legal papers revealed.<\/p>\n

The settlement avoided a public trial, saving the monarchy from the controversy of an in-depth investigation into Ms Giuffre\u2019s claims in a year when the Queen was preparing to take part in an extended June weekend of jubilee celebrations.<\/p>\n

But there were concerns the-then duke was trying to negotiate a return to public life when he took a prime role in unexpectedly escorting his mother to Prince Philip\u2019s memorial in March 2022, and then was invited to the jubilee thanksgiving service.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe late Queen during her platinum jubilee celebrations in June 2022 (Leon Neal\/PA) <\/p>\n

In the end, the Queen\u2019s reported favourite son stayed behind closed doors for the jubilee and missed the church service, having announced the day before he had Covid.<\/p>\n

Ms Giuffre, whose book is called Nobody\u2019s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, wrote, according to The Telegraph: \u201cAs devastating as this interview was for Prince Andrew, for my legal team it was like an injection of jet fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts contents would not only help us build an ironclad case against the prince but also open the door to potentially subpoenaing his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"VirginiaVirginia Giuffre, whose posthumous book is out next week (Crime+Investigation\/PA) <\/p>\n

She also told how Andrew had \u201cstonewalled\u201d her legal team for months before settlement discussions began moving very quickly when his deposition was scheduled for March 2022.<\/p>\n

Ms Giuffre also wrote how she was \u201crevolted\u201d to see \u201ctwo of my abusers together\u201d when Andrew was pictured walking with Epstein in New York in 2011 and \u201camazed\u201d that a member of the royal family would be \u201cstupid enough\u201d to appear in public with the convicted paedophile.<\/p>\n

Andrew, who remains a prince and continues to live in the vast Crown Estate property Royal Lodge, said on Friday that the \u201ccontinued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the royal family\u201d.<\/p>\n

He insisted he was putting his \u201cfamily and country first\u201d and would stop using \u201cmy title or the honours which have been conferred upon me\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew insisted his accuser Virginia Giuffre sign a one-year gag order to prevent tarnishing the late Queen\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[6371,6615,3993,6667,9,24,63,6614,666,122,124,123,6665,486,6666,6668],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-andrew","tag-duke-of-york","tag-elizabeth-ii","tag-epstein","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prince-andrew","tag-queen","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal","tag-royal-family","tag-uk","tag-virginia-giuffre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}