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Steven Smith<\/strong> Network Content Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n08:12, 19 Oct 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Prince of Wales is not satisfied with the Prince Andrew outcome and will take a more ruthless approach to his disgraced uncle and ban him from his future coronation, it has been reported. Heir to the throne William was consulted on the decision that led to Andrew relinquishing his dukedom on Friday, but the Sunday Times said William \u201cknows the \u2018Andrew problem\u2019 will be in his in-tray at some point\u201d.<\/p>\n
The newspaper claimed future king William will be \u201cmore ruthless\u201d and is \u201cnot satisfied with the outcome\u201d. Meanwhile, it was reported Andrew tried to get the Metropolitan Police to dig up dirt for a smear campaign against his sexual assault accuser Virginia Giuffre.<\/p>\n
The force said it is looking into the allegations after the Mail on Sunday claimed Andrew passed Ms Giuffre\u2019s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and asked him to investigate. Andrew, still a prince and living in the 30-bedroom Royal Lodge mansion, issued a statement in his own words on Friday in which he said he was giving up his Duke of York title and honours to prevent distracting from the work of the monarch and the royal family.<\/p>\n
Ms Giuffre\u2019s brother Sky Roberts has urged the King to go further and strip Andrew of his right to be a prince. William is always understood to have wanted to take decisive action with regard to the long-running controversy surrounding Andrew and his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n
The newspaper reported that when William is king, he will ban Andrew from all elements of royal life \u2013 public and private \u2013 including his coronation, and most state occasions. It added that William will also ban Andrew\u2019s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, from royal events, but their daughters, his cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, will still be welcome at family and official gatherings.<\/p>\n
Kensington Palace declined to comment. Andrew\u2019s standing with his relatives was laid bare during the funeral of the Duchess of Kent in September, when he tried to engage William in conversation.<\/p>\n
William did not respond to comments made by his uncle, who stood by his side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral, staring straight ahead and barely acknowledging Andrew\u2019s presence. The King has already ruled that Andrew will no longer attend Christmas Day service with the royal family \u2013 and the statement on Friday was viewed as a final banishment for the prince after the ongoing drip-feed of scandal over the years.<\/p>\n
Charles previously allowed his younger brother to attend his 2023 coronation, with Andrew arriving decked out in his Order of the Garter robes. A year earlier, the then-Duke of York paid millions to accuser Ms Giuffre to settle a civil sexual assault case, despite claiming never to have met her.<\/p>\n
Andrew has also given up his Garter knighthood, meaning he will no longer be able to wear his robes or attend the Order\u2019s annual service at Windsor Castle each June. There had long been calls for Andrew to lose his dukedom, given to him by the late Queen on the morning of his 1986 wedding, after the long-running furore over his ties to convicted sex offender Epstein.<\/p>\n
Charles is said to have acted, in consultation with William, Andrew and the royal family, on Friday after it emerged the then-duke had emailed Epstein in 2011 saying \u201cwe\u2019re in this together\u201d, three months after he claimed he had broken all contact with him. The Mail on Sunday reported that Andrew embarked on a bid to smear Ms Giuffre.<\/p>\n
He is said to have emailed the late Queen\u2019s then-deputy press secretary and told him of his request to his protection officer, and also suggested Ms Giuffre had a criminal record. The prince\u2019s alleged attempt, on which the police officer is not said to have acted, came in 2011, hours before the newspaper first published the famous photograph of Andrew with his arm around Ms Giuffre in London.<\/p>\n
The newspaper said it obtained the email from disclosures held by the US congress. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said: \u201cWe are aware of media reporting and are looking into the claims made.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prince was approached for comment. Ms Giuffre\u2019s posthumous memoirs, which are due out on Tuesday, have intensified the focus on the sexual assault allegations, which Andrew denies, and his links to Epstein.<\/p>\n
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<\/g><\/clippath><\/defs><\/svg><\/span>Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew<\/span>(Image: PA Archive\/PA Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/button><\/div>\n
Ms Giuffre wrote that Andrew insisted she sign a one-year gag order after their settlement to prevent tarnishing the late Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee. She described how Andrew\u2019s disastrous Newsnight was like an \u201cinjection of jet fuel\u201d for her legal team, and it raised the possibility of \u201csubpoenaing\u201d Sarah, Beatrice and Eugenie and drawing them into the legal case, The Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n
Ms Giuffre said she got \u201cmore out of\u201d Andrew than a reported 12-million-dollar payout and two-million-dollar donation to her charity because she had \u201can acknowledgement that I and many other women had been victimised and a tacit pledge to never deny it again\u201d. The prince\u2019s 2019 Newsnight interview, which he hoped would clear his name, backfired when he said he \u201cdid not regret\u201d his friendship with convicted paedophile Epstein, who trafficked Ms Giuffre.<\/p>\n
He was heavily criticised for failing to show sympathy with the sex offender\u2019s victims. Andrew also said he had \u201cno recollection\u201d of ever meeting Ms Giuffre and added he could not have had sex with her in March 2001 because he was at Pizza Express with Beatrice on the day in question.<\/p>\n
Ms Giuffre alleged, which Andrew vehemently denies, that she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by Epstein. Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating her platinum jubilee in 2022 \u2013 the first British monarch to reach the milestone \u2013 as the civil case against her son gathered pace.<\/p>\n
It was settled just nine days after she reached the 70th anniversary of her accession.<\/p>\n
Ms Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, revealed in her book: \u201cI agreed to a one-year gag order, which seemed important to the prince because it ensured that his mother\u2019s platinum jubilee would not be tarnished any more than it already had been.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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