 Prince Andrew continues to deny any wrongdoing and has reportedly tried to lobby to resume some of his former duties. Charles and Andrew held an early-morning meeting at the King's Birkhall estate in Scotland just days before the Queen's death with the Duke of York's absence from future royal service confirmed. An insider told the Mail on Sunday : 'Andrew was totally blindsided. He is utterly bereft. He always believed there was a way back.' Another source added: 'Naïve as it may sound, he always had hopes of regaining his position as a senior Royal. At the meeting, Charles told him that he can go off and have a good life, a nice life, but that his public life as a royal is at an end.' The disgraced Prince was reportedly devastated by the meeting and his daughters petitioned the King for his return ( Getty Image){kind=link}
Prince Andrew sat down with his brother King Charles for a secret meeting just days before the Queen died where the duke was ‘blindsided’ when he was told he would never return to public life
Prince Andrew was reportedly ‘blindsided’ in a tense meeting with King Charles as his brother told him he must accept he will never return to royal duties.
The disgraced Duke of York is said to have ‘always believed there was a way back’ to his former role and thought he could âstill be of value’ to the Royal Family despite his association with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Prince Andrew stepped down from royal duties and the Queen stripped him of his military affiliations and patronages in the wake of a sex scandal earlier this year.
He denied the allegations against him and later came to an out of court settlement, reportedly worth £12 million with his accuser Virginia Giuffre. The settlement is not an admission of guilt.