King Charles III used Prince Andrew’s Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit to get Queen Elizabeth II to agree Queen Consort standing for Camilla, an creator says.
The account was strongly denied by Buckingham Palace to NBC Information however biographer Christopher Andersen doubled down throughout an interview with The At present Present.
The palace informed the present the e book’s account was “nonsense,” including it was “unsourced and categorically unfaithful.”
Newsweek approached Buckingham Palace for remark.
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He mentioned: “It wasn’t out of the blue. It was once more an unstated association between the 2 of them completed behind the scenes by these males in grey that Diana used to speak about.
“Andrew was at all times the queen’s favourite son. Charles was ready the place he wanted the queen to endorse Camilla as they approached the Platinum Jubilee and these items converged.”
On the palace denial, he mentioned: “Customary process for the palace. Truly after they trouble to subject an announcement a couple of e book you recognize you’ve got struck a nerve.
“As I mentioned earlier, I have been protecting the royal household for 50 years now, it shocks me to say it, however the sources I’ve now are unparalleled, strong. This is not a licensed biography, it is an unauthorized biography, and subsequently far more correct than the palace would offer.”
Virginia Giuffre accused Prince Andrew of raping her when she was a 17-year-old Jeffrey Epstein intercourse trafficking sufferer. He denied the allegations and settled out of courtroom with out admitting legal responsibility.
Andersen’s earlier e book additionally contained an allegation that Charles was the royal referred to as out anonymously by Meghan Markle for alleged feedback on the doable pores and skin coloration of the Sussexes’ unborn youngster throughout their Oprah Winfrey interview. On the time, a Clarence Home spokesperson mentioned: “That is fiction and never price additional remark.”
Andersen’s account is fleshed out additional within the e book itself. An advance copy of The King, seen by Newsweek, suggests Charles and William each thought Andrew ought to co-operate with the FBI investigation into Giuffre’s allegations however the queen needed to bail out her favourite son.
The e book reads: “There was a catch, nevertheless. Since for all intents and functions such funds would in the end be popping out of Charles’s inheritance—on changing into king he would inherit each entry to the Duchy of Lancaster revenue and the majority of his mom’s huge holdings—Charles must, if not really log out on the deal then at the very least not supply a public objection to it.
“As distasteful because it was to have a slice of his inheritance go for this goal, Charles recognised uncommon alternative for some form of casual quid professional quo.
“Whereas the query of the place the cash would come from was nonetheless very a lot on the desk, the Prince of Wales steered privately that February 6, 2020, the seventieth anniversary of [Queen Elizabeth II’s] father George VI’s demise, is perhaps the best time to make some form of assertion in help of Camilla changing into queen.”
On At present, Andersen mentioned: “The issue is that the queen was sensible and he or she knew that placing Camilla on the throne subsequent to Charles can be problematic to say the least.
“And by the way in which, Charles made a pledge to the British folks to promote them on his marriage. Initially they might by no means make her [Camilla] queen, she can be Princess Consort.
“He by no means meant for that to occur. He at all times knew that she can be his queen.
“They’re even speaking now about dropping the consort from the title. She might be Queen Camilla. I believe the second that is going to be defining throughout the coronation is the second when she is topped subsequent to him. It assume it is gonna ruffle a whole lot of feathers. she’s not fashionable in England.”
Andersen was additionally requested about Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir and steered any bombshell revelations may set a dramatic stage for Charles’ coronation in 2023.
He mentioned: “Clearly there are going to be bombshells in that e book. The palace is not going to be joyful. As they’re going through the coronation in Could, it is clearly acquired all of them on tenterhooks.”
