NCS broke into its scheduled programming to ship breaking news about the Royal Family.
Presenter Max Foster interrupted his protection to announce that King Charles’s brother, Prince Andrew, would lose his Royal titles and be faraway from Buckingham Palace, describing it as a “stunning statement.”
The dramatic resolution follows Prince Andrew’s connection to disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. Claims towards the 65-12 months-outdated have resurfaced following the October 21 launch of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir ‘Nobody’s Girl,’ wherein she claims that Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her when she was a teenager, allegations he has denied.
NCS correspondent Richard Quest commented on the breaking growth throughout the broadcast, saying, “This is absolutely uncharted territory. It’s the contagion, the waves are lapping now at the doors of Buckingham Palace.”
On Thursday, Buckingham Palace issued an official assertion from King Charles, confirming that “His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew,” stories the Mirror US.
Although Prince Andrew maintains he by no means encountered Virginia, who died aged 41 final April, she documented her encounters with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Prince Andrew throughout her teenage years in her posthumous memoir.
She claimed she was compelled into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew on three events, together with as soon as at age 17 in 2001, after being trafficked by Epstein. He has constantly rejected these claims and maintains they by no means met, regardless of {a photograph} exhibiting him alongside her and Ghislaine.
Following the memoir’s launch, demonstrators have demanded accountability from Prince Andrew and the Royal Family concerning his connection to Epstein. Concerns have additionally emerged about how he allegedly funded Virginia’s multi-million-greenback civil lawsuit settlement in 2022 and maintains his costly way of life regardless of stepping again from Royal duties in 2019.
The official assertion from Buckingham Palace additionally reads, “Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”