King Charles 'Was at the Heart' of the Andrew 'Cover-Up,' Claims Expert

Trigger Warning: This article contains themes of child sexual abuse that some readers may find distressing.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's past ties to Jeffrey Epstein continue to make headlines. Recently, a report alleged that behind his infamous sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre, a long effort to stifle the legal proceedings unfolded. It pulled back the curtains on how Queen Elizabeth and then–Prince Charles allegedly loaned Mountbatten-Windsor money to settle the case out of court. Weighing in, royal expert Tom Sykes claimed that King Charles was indeed 'at the heart' of the 'cover-up,' ensuring Giuffre's silence.

In an article on his Substack, Sykes revealed what went down behind the scenes. He penned, "Charles' money was deployed to buy Andrew out of a full public reckoning, to shut down a civil case that could have put a senior royal's alleged sexual abuse of a trafficked teenager under the spotlight in a New York courtroom." Noting how Charles became 'co-monarch' with his late mother to silence the case, he opined, "You do it because you are making a hard political calculation about what is in the interests of the Crown. Charles wasn't dragged into this against his will; he was at the heart of the cover-up."

According to The Sun, Charles had pitched in around $2 million, while other family members allegedly also contributed to help resolve the lawsuit. For her part, the late Queen allegedly loaned her 'favorite son' around $9.5 million to settle with Giuffre in 2022, with $4 million forked from Prince Philip's estate the year after his death. To this date, the former Duke of York has reportedly not paid his family back, as his efforts to sell his Swiss ski chalet went in vain, as it was riddled with heavy mortgage debt. 

Commenting on how the royal family handled the aftermath of the lawsuit, a source told the outlet, "Andrew lied to his own family about the extent of his relationship with ­Jeffrey Epstein. They bankrolled his payoff to his accuser, Virginia Giuffre. They bought his lies and helped him try to make the problem go away." Claiming that the Queen was devastated by her son's actions, they added, "She [Queen] knew this was a problem that his [Andrew's] brother Charles would tackle once she was gone — it only pushed the scandal down the road." 

For those unversed, Guiffre, who is credited as the first person to bring Mountbatten-Windsor's downfall, alleged in 2019 that he had indecent relations with her when she was 17 and trafficked by Epstein. In 2021, she filed a civil lawsuit in the US court, which was settled the following year for a reported $16 million. Meanwhile, the former Prince denied ever meeting her in his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview, going so far as to claim that the photo of them together was possibly tampered with. 

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