LONDON: Prince Andrew had his military links and royal patronages removed on Thursday and will no longer be known as"His Royal Highness", Buckingham Palace said, as the son of Queen Elizabeth fights a US lawsuit in which he is accused of sex abuse.
On Wednesday, Andrew's lawyers failed to persuade a US judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which Virginia Giuffre accuses him of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager. The judge's decision means Andrew could be forced to give evidence at a trial which could begin between September and December 2022 if no settlement were reached."Given the robustness with which Judge Kaplan greeted our arguments, we are unsurprised by the ruling," a source close to Andrew said.
It instead led to ridicule and further questions, and as the controversy grew, Buckingham Palace had increasingly distanced itself from the prince, declining to comment and referring all questions to his lawyers. Earlier, an open letter to the queen, signed by more than 150 veterans calling for Andrew too have his military titles taken away and"if necessary, that he be dishonourably discharged", was published by the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic.
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