Perhaps the Queen could let it be known she's selling a Canaletto to pay Andrew's bills?
Don’t believe this blog’s headline. I made it up. I have absolutely no idea if the Queen will sell a Canaletto to help Prince Andrew pay his promised settlement to Virginia Giuffre. I have no idea if the Queen will, in fact, help Prince Andrew pay up. There have been a lot of reports on this, but no one really knows.
Even so, the reported details of the royal pay-off are juicy. They suggest an eyewatering sum of more than £12 million, to be transferred across the Atlantic from the royal purse to Ms Giuffre.
Twitter had a lot of fun with news that Prince Andrew was sending a load of cash to Virginia Giuffre, a woman he claimed never to have met.
- James Alexander #IAm European (@jamesa0330) February 16, 2022
Pretty smart, huh: “Huge queue forms at Palace on news that Prince Andrew is giving away money to people he’s never met.”
Understated British humour at its best. Lots of irony in there.
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