# Mega Edition:  How Prince Andrew Passed The Buck When it Comes To His Settlement With Virginia (7/10/26)

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Published: 2026-07-11T06:15:02+00:00
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## Resource

Queen Elizabeth’s role in Prince Andrew’s settlement with Virginia Giuffre was never formally laid out in court, because the financial terms were sealed, but reporting at the time said she helped Andrew get the deal done. The settlement, announced in February 2022, ended Giuffre’s civil sexual-abuse lawsuit against Andrew without any admission of liability, and it included a “substantial donation” to Giuffre’s charity. Multiple reports put the overall figure around £12 million, with some reporting that the Queen contributed money toward the settlement or the charity portion of it. That matters because it reinforced the perception that Andrew was not simply a disgraced man trying to resolve his own legal exposure; he was still being cushioned by the institution around him, and by a mother who had protected him for decades. Even after Andrew lost his military titles and royal patronages, the image left behind was unmistakable: the monarchy had cut him loose publicly, but the family was still helping clean up the wreckage privately. Then-Prince Charles’s role was more complicated and more political. He was widely reported to have been central to the internal royal push to remove Andrew from public life, strip him of official duties, and prevent the Epstein scandal from dragging the monarchy into the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year. In that sense, Charles was not acting like Andrew’s rescuer in public; he was acting like the future king trying to contain a reputational catastrophe before it swallowed the institution. Later reporting has disputed or denied claims that Charles personally contributed to the settlement money, including a 2026 denial from a source close to King Charles that he helped fund the payout. But whether he paid into it or not, Charles’s institutional rol…

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