\u201cThese censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
The announcement follows renewed scrutiny over Andrew\u2019s friendship with the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as reports that he\u00a0was living effectively rent-free<\/a> in the 30-room lodge, prompting a barrage of wider questions about the way Britain\u2019s royals are funded<\/a>.<\/p>\n Andrew announced earlier this month that he would be giving up his titles<\/a>, including the Duke of York, though he was expected to remain known as Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n Andrew withdrew from royal duties in 2020 after public backlash over a BBC interview<\/a>\u00a0in which he maintained that he didn\u2019t regret his friendship with Epstein and said<\/a> \u201cthe people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTheir Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse,\u201d Buckingham Palace said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,\u201d the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,38484,12,14,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-539135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-monarchy","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}