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Prince Andrew can now reportedly finish his self-imposed journey ban following his controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein. And whereas the disgraced Duke of York can journey freely with out worry of repercussions, royal specialists insist to Fox Information Digital that “Air Miles Andy” is not.
“Prince Andrew stays a humiliation to the royal household,” royal professional Richard Fitzwilliams instructed Fox Information Digital. “Nobody has forgotten his notorious ‘Newsnight’ interview or the {photograph} with Epstein… He continues to be seen as an entitled imbecile.”
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Prince Andrew’s (proper) controversial ties to Jeffrey Epstein (left) will proceed to hang-out him. (Getty Pictures)
“He can solely be seen with the royal household inside a church with out attracting fiercely damaging remark,” Fitzwilliams mentioned. “(However) except he accepts that he has been discovered responsible within the courtroom of public opinion and… (exhibits) some repentance or, on the very least, one thing optimistic which helps others, at his greatest, his future is effectively behind him.”
Fox Information Digital obtained a two-page inner Division of Justice (DOJ) and FBI memo that claims that Epstein, a late American financier and convicted pedophile, died by suicide, and there’s no record of shoppers who had been concerned in exploitation.
Prince Andrew claimed he regretted his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. (Chris Radburn/Reuters)
“This systemic evaluation revealed no incriminating ‘consumer record,’” a portion of the memo learn. “There was additionally no credible proof discovered that Epstein blackmailed outstanding people as a part of his actions. We didn’t uncover proof that would predicate an investigation in opposition to uncharged third events.”
Jeffrey Epstein was related with a number of outstanding folks, together with politicians, actors and lecturers. (Rick Friedman/Corbis/Getty Pictures)
The memo additionally acknowledged that Epstein died by suicide in 2019 within the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in New York Metropolis.
A supply claimed to The Solar that the son of Queen Elizabeth II has been overseas solely “as soon as” since his controversial connection to Epstein got here to gentle.
Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022. England’s longest-reigning monarch was 96. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Pictures)
“He has all the time been very nervous about going overseas and felt he’d all the time be wanting over his shoulder as he might be topic to civil motion or, at worst, being arrested,” the supply claimed to the outlet.
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Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has been holding a low profile at his palatial Royal Lodge residence. (Steve Parsons/Getty Pictures)
“Hopefully with this out of the best way it means he can at the least depart the nation,” the insider continued. “What’s he imagined to do with the remainder of his life? He hasn’t been convicted of any crime and might’t sit round doing nothing at Royal Lodge perpetually.”
A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital they don’t communicate for the duke, as he is not a working royal.
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Royal specialists instructed Fox Information Digital that Andrew initially earned the nickname “Air Miles Andy” for his frequent travels throughout the globe. Nonetheless, British Royals Professional Hilary Fordwich identified to Fox Information Digital that it’s seemingly Andrew will proceed to maintain his head all the way down to keep away from additional humiliation and scrutiny.
Two weeks previous to his dying, Epstein had been positioned on suicide watch after he was discovered barely acutely aware in his cell with accidents to his neck. He had been taken off suicide watch simply days earlier than hanging himself. (New York State Intercourse Offender Registry through AP, File)
“Whereas Andrew is perhaps feeling a way of reduction and cautious optimism, being now technically in a position to journey, each his private and public prospects stay constrained by the enduring damaging fallout, in addition to his frightfully tarnished popularity from the Epstein scandal,” she defined.
“The media will (nonetheless) be relentless and most definitely not optimistic. They may also be extra more likely to be hostile, in addition to embarrassing to the royal household, if he does journey to the U.S. He’s not more likely to ever regain public favor both nor return to any prominence.”
Little St. James Island, one of many properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein, is seen in an aerial view close to Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
“He misplaced all his royal patronages and army roles,” Fordwich continued. “There isn’t a indication in any respect that King Charles III, or any senior royal, ever intends to rehabilitate his public picture nor to revive his former standing in any means.”
The Duke of York attends a Grand Fleet Air Arm Reunion on the Royal Naval Air Station, Lee-on-the-Solent, United Kingdom, circa 1995. Prince Andrew earned the nickname “Air Miles Andy” as a consequence of his frequent travels earlier than the Epstein controversy got here to gentle. (Tim Graham/Getty Pictures)
“Senior royals are much more involved with defending the establishment’s popularity. Something Andrew does is seen as… a legal responsibility. Prince William stays adamant relating to severely limiting any choices for participation in any respect. So, he would possibly journey, however not in any formal capability.”
Fitzwilliams additionally questioned “what’s the level of him?” referring to any contributions Andrew could make as a royal.
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Prince Andrew reportedly refuses to go away behind his Royal Lodge residence for a smaller residence. (DANIEL LEAL/AFP through Getty Pictures)
“He is not doing something helpful, though a job might be discovered serving to to run the royal estates,” he mentioned. “He could effectively cling on to the thirty-room Royal Lodge if he can afford the maintenance… He has a 75-year lease (that) he took out in 2003.”
Based on stories, Prince Andrew lives in Royal Lodge along with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. (Chris Jackson/Getty Pictures)
“It’s famous that he didn’t supply to assist with the FBI investigation, though he had initially provided to take action,” mentioned Fitzwilliams. “It must also be pressured that he has not been discovered responsible of something and has all the time maintained his innocence.”
King Charles’ youthful brother stepped again as a senior royal in 2019 following his nuclear televised interview with BBC’s “Newsnight” about his ties to Epstein. On the time, the royal mentioned he regretted his relationship with the 66-year-old.
Prince Andrew was generally known as Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite son. (Richard Pohle – WPA Pool/Getty Pictures)
In January 2022, the queen, who died in September of that 12 months, stripped her second son of his army titles and patronages. On the time, the daddy of two tried to have a sexual abuse lawsuit made by Virginia Giuffre dismissed. Andrew settled with Giuffre for an undisclosed sum, agreeing to make a “substantial donation” to her survivors’ group.
Prince Andrew is seen right here along with his daughter Princess Beatrice of York on the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on September 19, 2022, in London, England. (Daniel Leal – WPA Pool/Getty Pictures)
An announcement filed in courtroom mentioned that the prince acknowledged Epstein was a intercourse trafficker and Giuffre “a longtime sufferer of abuse.”
Giuffre mentioned Epstein trafficked her and that she had intercourse with Andrew 3 times: in London throughout her 2001 journey, at Epstein’s New York mansion when she was 17, and within the Virgin Islands when she was 18.
She took her life in April of this 12 months at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed. She was 41.
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Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds a photograph of herself as a teen, when she says she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, amongst others. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Pictures)
It’s believed that Andrew first met Epstein in 1999. Andrew claimed he lower ties with Epstein shortly after the pair had been photographed taking a stroll via Central Park.
Based on stories, Prince Andrew met Jeffrey Epstein in 1999. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Images/Corbis through Getty Pictures)
Epstein killed himself whereas awaiting trial on U.S. federal intercourse trafficking expenses involving dozens of teenage ladies and younger girls, some as younger as 14. The fees got here 14 years after police in Palm Seaside, Florida, first started investigating allegations that he sexually abused underage ladies who had been employed to offer him massages.
Ghislaine Maxwell was a British socialite whose father was press baron Robert Maxwell. (Mathieu Polak/Sygma/Sygma through Getty Pictures)
Epstein’s accomplice in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 on federal intercourse trafficking and conspiracy expenses. The British socialite, 63, was sentenced to twenty years in jail.
Ghislaine Maxwell walks and jogs across the observe at FCI Tallahassee the place she’s presently serving 20 years for her position within the intercourse trafficking ring operated by Jeffrey Epstein. (Matthew Symons for Fox Information Digital)
Kinsey Schofield, host of the To Di for Each day podcast, beforehand instructed Fox Information Digital that Andrew’s popularity is perpetually tarnished. At this level, she argued, he ought to by no means be seen or heard from once more as there’s nothing he can do to redeem himself publicly.
Virginia Giffre died on April 25, 2025. She was 41. (Mark Kauzlarch/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
“Andrew must keep away from being seen or heard for the remainder of King Charles’ reign,” mentioned Schofield. “If you wish to attend church with your loved ones, nice — keep 100 toes behind them when photographers are round. In any other case, he ought to proceed… horse driving privately on the property that King Charles requested him to give up. Whether or not he’s harmless of the preliminary accusations is irrelevant. He’s responsible by affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Fox Information Digital’s Peter D’Abrosca and The Related Press contributed to this report.
Stephanie Nolasco covers leisure at Foxnews.com.
