Prince Andrew was photographed “laughing his head off” whereas denying allegations of raping an underage woman throughout an notorious 2019 interview as a result of he “thought it had gone very nicely.”
The unreleased picture of the Duke of York’s Buckingham Palace interview, snapped by a BBC photographer, would additional “embarrass” the royal household if grew to become public, a supply told The Sun Saturday.
Queen Elizabeth II stripped her son of his army affiliations and royal patronages after he defended his relationship with convicted intercourse offender Jeffery Epstein to Newsnight correspondent Emily Maitlis and indignantly scoffed off allegations of rape.
Andrew, 62, maintained he couldn’t have sexually assaulted 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre in 2001 as a result of he was at a British pizza parlor together with his daughter Princess Beatrice on the time — and suffered from a medical situation that prevented him from sweating. Giuffre had contended he was “sweating profusely.”
“It’s a nonetheless image displaying Emily interviewing Andrew. You may see his face and he’s laughing,” the supply reportedly mentioned.
“Folks will really feel it was reckless for him to snigger throughout such a delicate interview, however he in all probability didn’t notice the seriousness or penalties of laughing or how it could look on digital camera,” the supply continued, based on The Solar.
“You may have to keep in mind that after the interview, he thought it had gone very nicely — solely to be subsequently hit by a wave of unfavorable response.”
The prince reportedly pushed to maintain Mark Harrison’s damning picture personal, however the photographer has teased it is perhaps launched along side an upcoming film concerning the trainwreck interview.
Prince Andrew stepped down from his royal duties days after defending his pedophile pal and Epstein’s accused intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
He settled with Giuffre for an estimated $12 million in February after she accused him of attacking her 3 times, together with as soon as at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
The disgraced prince admitted no wrongdoing within the settlement and refused to cooperate with US prosecutors. He additionally mentioned he had no reminiscence of ever assembly Giuffre and claimed a picture of him holding her waist was edited.
Epstein died in a Manhattan jail whereas going through baby sex-trafficking fees three months earlier than Andrew’s interview. Medical experts ruled his death a suicide.
