Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor He faces banishment at the worst possible moment for his reputation, but things could get even worse. His parents and his older brother, the current King Charles, left him 12 million pounds in 2022 to reach a … according to Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused him of rape up to three times when she was 17 years old. The then Prince thus managed to avoid the trial and, temporarily, the waters returned to normal.
But as ‘The Sun’ now publishes, that amount was never returned. Neither the seven million that he asked for from Queen Elizabeth nor the three that came from the profits that Prince Philip’s properties still generated a year after his death. Carlos III gave him, according to the aforementioned media, more than one and a half million.
Supposedly other royals would have also helped to reach the final figure. «He hasn’t paid a single cent», say knowledgeable sources. Andrés supposedly intended to sell a chalet he has in Switzerland, but the profits from that transaction were not as interesting as he thought they would be, and he still had to pay a large mortgage.
The Windsors felt at the time that it was more important to avoid a major scandal, especially before the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022, and help everyone turn the page. It was said then that Andrés had taken “a little bit from here and a little bit from there”, but now it is indicated that the little brother of Carlos III lied to his own family about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
«They believed his lies and helped him get rid of the problem. “His own mother was heartbroken by the scandal, but she did not dare to banish Andrés, whom she still loved very much,” adds the source. Above all, they wanted to avoid what happened a few years earlier, in 2019, when Andrés gave a disastrous interview to talk about the subject. Already then the versions of the then Prince did not quite add up, and he even assured that he never abused Virginia Giuffre because she was in a pizzeria with her daughter.
Virginia Giuffre took her own life last April, at the age of 41, before the world learned the extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and contacts with the publication of the more than 3 million documents of the convicted pedophile. These refute Andrés, who had always assured that in 2010 he had broken off his relationship with the American financier, and show that in the following years he remained in contact with him.
date: 2026-02-12 21:00:00