It has not been a good year to be the Duke of York. Firstly, Andrew Lownie’s devastating joint biography of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Entitled, splashed allegations of the grim antics of the prince over its unforgiving pages, to bestselling effect. In a few weeks, Virginia Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir will also be published. It will likely be hugely embarrassing for Andrew as Giuffre is expected to have detailed precisely what she alleged occurred between her and the duke several years ago.
It seems likely that this sordid, reputationally shattering story still has a few twists and turns yet to come
This, of course, took place under the auspices of the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, but that man’s baleful influence has continued to creep into Andrew’s life man