The late Queen Elizabeth II reportedly contributed more than £9 million towards her son Prince Andrew's out-of-court settlement with sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre in 2022, according to reporting by The Sun. A new royal biography claims the monarch spent her final years privately troubled by Andrew's association with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, yet ultimately refused to believe he had done anything wrong.
Giuffre filed a civil lawsuit against Andrew, now 66, in 2021, alleging he had sexually assaulted her on three separate occasions when she was 17 years old, after being trafficked by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Andrew has consistently and categorically denied every allegation.
