Questions over financing of sex abuse settlement as palace REFUSES to say if Queen, 95, is helping pay for it with Duke’s £18m Verbier chalet still not sold
Calls intensified today for the financial arrangements of Prince Andrew’s sex abuse lawsuit settlement to be revealed as Buckingham Palace again refused to say whether it could be partially funded by the Queen.
His mother is expected to foot some of the estimated £12million bill in a bid to draw a line under it before her much-anticipated Platinum Jubilee celebrations this summer. But there is anger at how the Queen, 95, has effectively been forced to bail out the ‘disgraced’ Duke of York, 61, whose modest pension from his time in the Royal Navy is now his only visible income – amid calls for the public to be told who is financing the deal.
