Prince William desires uncle Andrew to ‘vanish’ in stripped down monarchy, buddy says

Prince William desires his uncle Andrew to “vanish from public view” in his imaginative and prescient for a contemporary monarchy, in keeping with experiences.

The Duke of York stepped down from public life in 2019 after the furore over his friendship with paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

However Andrew is now stated to be pushing for a return to royal duties and needs the Queen to provide him again his function as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.

That is one thing his nephew reportedly doesn’t assist.

“He has sturdy views on the Duke of York and believes his insistence in attempting to cling on to a public function is very harmful for the establishment,” a buddy instructed the Each day Mail.

“He would have lower him free a very long time in the past if it had been as much as him. He understands that in the case of mom and son the state of affairs is sophisticated, however actually I believe he simply needs he would vanish from public view.”

The Duke of Cambridge is alleged to be a supporter of a slimmed-down monarchy, like his father Charles.

It comes after the Queen stripped Andrew of his army titles and royal patronages earlier this yr amid a civil sexual abuse case over the allegations.

The Duke of York was solid out of the working monarchy and might now not name himself His Royal Highness after Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years previous.

Andrew has at all times strenuously denied the allegations.

Andrew ended up paying tens of millions in a settlement to Ms Giuffre, who he claims he has by no means met.

The settlement got here three years after the royal‘s 2019 Newsnight interview, wherein he mentioned his relationship with Epstein and Ms Giuffre’s allegations.

In it, he gave Pizza Specific in Woking as an alibi for an alleged encounter with Ms Giuffre and denied claims he was sweaty within the nightclub beforehand as this was not possible for him, as he doesn’t sweat resulting from an “overdose of adrenaline within the Falklands warfare”.

Interviewer Emily Maitlis has since described the dialog as “jaw-dropping”.

Kensington Palace has been approached for remark.