A new report claims that Prince Philip had a showdown with son Prince Andrew after his disastrous BBC interview.
Express.co.uk reports that the Duke of Edinburgh told the Duke of York to “take your punishment” as he was forced to step down from royal duties.
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The father and son discussion was described as “tense” by a well-placed source, and they both agreed to hold a second meeting after Prince Charles returned from his overseas tour of New Zealand and the Solomon Islands.
“It was a tense meeting and Philip told his son he had to take his punishment,” a royal source told The Daily Telegraph.
The insider continued: “There was no screaming or shouting but Philip told him in no uncertain terms that he had to step down for the sake of the monarchy.
“Philip doesn’t like trial by the media but he is realistic enough to realise that Andrew’s actions were a danger to the very fabric of the royal family.”
Prince Andrew stepped down from royal duties following his disastrous BBC interview, where he faced questions over his ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy 66-year-old American who took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Roberts said she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times between 1999 and 2002, in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein. At the time she was under-age according to Florida state’s law.
Another woman called Johanna Sjoberg has accused Andrew, father to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, or groping her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2001.
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