Call for new Andrew police probe amid bombshell Fergie move
Scotland Yard has been told to reinvestigate sex abuse allegations against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor as a shock claim emerged about the royal’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
London’s Metropolitan Police has been told to reinvestigate sex abuse allegations against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after he was stripped of his royal titles.
British MPs have urged Scotland Yard to reopen its probe into allegations that the King’s younger brother sexually abused his Australian-based accuser Virginia Giuffre, The Telegraph reports.
Nazir Afzal, previously the chief prosecutor for North West England, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program: “At that time, a statement hadn’t been taken from Virginia Giuffre and then in 2021, a further review took place based on findings from the civil case and also from the Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution in the US, and again the matter wasn’t investigated.
“So this matter hasn’t been investigated, never mind taken any further.”
He said: “Public confidence has been shaken by this. People do feel that there is some two-tier justice here – that if you are powerful, you don’t get the same level of attention as you would do if you were, say, homeless.”
Ms Giuffre took her own life aged 41 at her farm in Western Australia in April.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has always strenuously denied her allegations against him.
It comes amid a claim that Andrew only agreed to leave his Royal Lodge estate after he lost the support of his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
The couple, who officially divorced in 1996, have continued to live together for most of the three decades since.
But Ms Ferguson has refused to join Andrew in exile on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk after he was stripped of his prince title and has said she will find her own place to live, The Times reports.
Despite years of being a staunch ally of Andrew, even in the aftermath of his car-crash Newsnight interview, Ms Ferguson now appears to have distanced herself.
The former Duchess of York is said to be “blaming herself” and may quit the UK, according to the Daily Mail.
A source said: “She’s always rather lived on the hoof and aside from her children and grandchildren, there’s not a lot to keep her here.
“Put it this way, the invitations have dried up overnight.”
Ms Ferguson is said to be “more on edge” than Andrew and is hunkering down in Royal Lodge “surrounded by Amazon deliveries” amid the couple’s dramatic fall from grace.
A source said: “The Amazon deliveries that go up to Royal Lodge are unbelievable. There are rooms full of boxes that haven’t even been opened.
“It will take weeks, if not months to shift all their s*** out.”
Meanwhile, friends of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie say the sisters, who slipped out of London to Saudi Arabia and Paris amid the scandal, remain “stoical” and “sanguine” despite their parents being banished from their home.
The spotlight has turned on the princesses who are not working royals but still enjoy some of the trappings of being in The Firm such as discounted rents on Crown Estate properties, The Times reports.
“Andrew has transferred his ambitions to his daughters,” said royal biographer Andrew Lownie, the author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.
“Both princesses have jobs on the strength of their contacts books. They’re out to get clients, and how do they do that? Partly through their parents’ connections. The advice that they are being given is: renounce your titles, separate yourselves, and forge your own lives — but the titles are their calling cards.”
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