Jake Berry led the charge on Question Time last night for either the royal family, or the government, to clarify who exactly is paying Prince Andrews multi-million pound settlement with Virginia Giuffre. The Queen is reportedly stumping up £2 million for her favourite son, however if that money were coming from the Sovereign Grant it would in effect be taxpayer cash. Will Andrew drag Her Maj’s reputation down with him?
Prince Andrew has settled his sex case with Virgina Giuffre out of court, though the total amount of the settlement will not be made public according to the New York Times. Read the letter in full below:
On Tuesday, Guido flagged the dilemma facing the Civil Service in coming days: how to deal with celebrating Prince Andrew’s forthcoming birthday a week on Saturday. According to the official Civil Service guidance, they were set to fly the Union Jack for the disgraced royal on the 19th…
Lo and behold, today the guidance was quietly updated and one royal’s name is no longer on the official list:
Randy Andy won’t be getting it up on his birthday this year…
There are civil service guidelines as to when government buildings should raise the flag. This month we have just celebrated the accession of the Queen and flags were flying particularly high for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have a more delicate and tricky situation coming up – the Duke of York’s birthday. The official guidance is that in just over week (February 19th) the flag should be raised in honour of Randy Andy’s birthday. Some might think that a little inappropriate…
There is still time for the civil service machinery to perhaps clarify with a memo whether or not this national honour should proceed this year. Tricky.
Sky News has apologised after a technical cock-up last night resulted in the implication that Prince Andrew is involved in the ongoing Madeleine McCann case. Based on his face of blind terror, presenter Dermot Murnaghan clearly spotted the error as stock footage of the prince played over a segment on the new suspect in the missing girl’s case. Guido hopes Murnaghan doesn’t sweat it…
