I remember a lot of the details around Virginia Giuffre’s civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew. She filed in 2021, and the lawsuit was due to go to trial in early 2022. Andrew made a lot of noise (through sources) about how he would fight Virginia tooth and nail, because they had never met and she had never been trafficked to him. His lawyers immediately began attacking Virginia’s character, referring to her as the “head bitch” who recruited for Jeffrey Epstein, leading everyone to wonder how and why Andrew and his lawyers would know that. Just days before the trial was set to begin, Andrew folded like a cheap suit. He refused to fly to America, and his lawyers quickly negotiated a settlement with Virginia. Andrew “borrowed” money from his mother to pay Virginia, a woman he still swore he never met. As part of the settlement, his lawyers attached a one-year gag order. We knew that at the time, and we also knew that Virginia planned to write a book after the gag order lapsed. Now, just days before Virginia’s posthumous memoir’s publication, Andrew has suddenly “given up” his titles and honors. Obviously, most people believe that Virginia’s book is going to do even further damage to Andrew and the Windsors. Well, in a new excerpt from Nobody’s Girl, Virginia wrote about the gag order.
Prince Andrew insisted Virginia Giuffre sign a gagging order so he did not embarrass Queen Elizabeth during her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The bombshell claim is set to be revealed in Ms Giuffre’s tell-all memoir from beyond the grave, which will be published on Tuesday.
In her book, Ms Giuffre describes the details of her legal battle and eventual settlement with Prince Andrew, which have so far been closely guarded. She tells how Andrew’s disastrous Newsnight was like an ‘injection of jet fuel’ for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of ‘subpoenaing’ his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie and drawing them into the legal case.
Ms Giuffre filed a lawsuit against the royal in August 2021, seeking unspecified damages for battery, including rape, and the infliction of emotional distress. She alleged that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times when she was just 17 years old under the orders of late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The case was settled outside of court on February 15, 2022, for a reported £12 million, with £2 million thought to have been donated to her sex trafficking charity. Prince Andrew did not admit wrongdoing and has consistently and vehemently denied the claims. However, in her new book Ms Giuffre exposes the details of the gagging order she was reportedly asked to sign by the prince.
She writes: ‘I agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the Prince because it ensured that his mother’s Platinum Jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been.’
The agreement meant Ms Giuffre was barred from discussing her abuse at the hands of Epstein during the 70th year of the late Queen’s reign.
As I said, this isn’t new information (although the Mail presents it as such). We knew that there was a temporary gag order at the time. Sources close to Virginia also openly discussed her plans to write a book post-gag order. What few people remember is that there was a secondary part to the deal. While QEII “gave” the money to Andrew to settle the lawsuit, then-Prince Charles had to give his permission for the settlement money too. By this time, QEII was so frail and she was being heavily manipulated by everyone, and Charles was the one to make the call on the money. In exchange for agreeing to give the money to Andrew, Charles got something in return: QEII suddenly agreed that Camilla should be called “Queen Consort” and not Princess Consort. Charles extracted that from QEII and her courtiers as part of this rotten f–king deal (the two things, the settlement and QEII’s letter, were nine days apart). Meanwhile, the Mail also had this story:
Prince Andrew embroiled the Metropolitan Police and one of Queen Elizabeth’s most senior aides in a campaign to smear his teenage sex accuser, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. A bombshell email obtained by this newspaper exposes how Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded Met bodyguard to investigate Virginia Giuffre and passed him her date of birth and confidential social security number.
Astonishingly, Andrew then told Ed Perkins, Queen Elizabeth’s deputy press secretary, that he had asked one of his personal protection officers – part of the Met’s elite SO14 Royal Protection Group – to dig up information about Ms Giuffre. He emailed Perkins hours before this newspaper first published the infamous picture of the duke with 17-year-old Ms Giuffre, which would ultimately bring about his downfall.
‘It would also seem she has a criminal record in the [United] States,’ he wrote. ‘I have given her DoB [date of birth] and social security number for investigation with XXX, the on duty ppo [personal protection officer].’
It is not suggested that the officer complied with the prince’s request, or that she did, in fact, have a criminal record.
Yeah, I believe this. I believe that some Establishment figures have helped Andrew along the way as well, and I’m not surprised at all with this.
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