Creator Nigel Cawthorne believes the beleaguered Duke of York might finally even be pushed out of Britain by public hostility and compelled to stay in exile overseas.
In an unique interview with the Day by day Categorical US, Mr. Cawthorne declared: “He has handed the purpose of no return and now faces a really dismal, hermit-like future shunned by nearly everybody, together with members of his family.”
The royal author mentioned he helps the results of a UK opinion ballot final week by which an awesome 69 per cent – nearly seven out of ten Britons – mentioned they wish to see Andrew faraway from the road of succession to the throne.
This might solely be achieved by way of an Act of Parliament however Mr. Cawthorne mentioned: “The mere reality we’re even speaking about such an excessive measure reveals simply how low Andrew has sunk in public esteem. The British individuals have had sufficient and most now merely need him gone.”
The prince, who turns 64 subsequent month, has already been stripped of his navy ranks, charity patronages and public use of his HRH title by the late Queen in January 2022, greater than two years after his notorious BBC Newsnight interview about his friendship with convicted peadophile Epstein.
Her Majesty acted a month earlier than legal professionals for Andrew, who has all the time vehemently denied any wrongdoing, agreed an out-of-court settlement of £12million with alleged Epstein “intercourse slave” Virginia Giuffre.
The scandal has been reignited by this month’s large US doc dump of court docket papers referring to late financier Epstein by which Andrew’s identify options greater than 100 occasions.
Mr. Cawthorne, who informed of the prince’s behind-the-scenes dilemma in his 2020 best-seller Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace and returned to the topic in his newest e book, final 12 months’s Battle of The Windsors, mentioned: “He is aware of this can by no means, ever go away.”
Two US attorneys representing greater than a dozen Epstein victims are urgent the FBI to launch mountains of proof collected by brokers from his personal Caribbean island and mansions in New York, Miami and New Mexico.
“Had Andrew dealt with issues in a different way – reminiscent of agreeing to be interviewed by the FBI at a venue of his alternative and cooperating with authorities nonetheless investigating Epstein – then maybe the general public’s notion of him could be completely different.”
On the similar time, the prince is claimed to be bracing for a battle royale on his personal doorstep together with his brother King Charles, who needs to maneuver him out of his palatial, ten bed room Royal Lodge property in Windsor and right into a smaller residence.
Mr. Cawthorne mentioned: “He’s destined for a lonely existence properly out of public view and it might be that he finally finds a extra peaceable bolt-hole overseas, maybe in Switzerland or France.
“He may need assistance to do that financially, however he nonetheless has a small circle of rich associates in addition to presumably having the ability to name on household for help. Whichever path he chooses, there’s no method again to the life he as soon as had.”
In a quirk of destiny, if the Duke does search haven overseas, he can be following within the historic footsteps of his personal grandfather – and namesake – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, who was banished for all times from Greece in 1922 for disobeying a navy command throughout an tried coup.
Although he was allowed to briefly return to his homeland, Andrew spent many of the remainder of his life on the French Riviera (whereas his son, the late Prince Philip, fought for Britain throughout World Battle II), dwelling in small residences, lodge suites and on board a yacht together with his mistress, Countess Andrée de La Bigne.
He died from a coronary heart assault aged 62 on the Lodge Metropole in Monte Carlo in December 1944, having not seen anybody from his household – together with Prince Philip – for the earlier 5 years and leaving a path of debt behind him.