King Charles was reportedly privately advised by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to distance himself from his brother Andrew as scandal linked to his past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein deepened.
The claimed was made by Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor of The Mirror, in a piece he wrote on how the royal family enabled “disgraced” Andrew in his crimes.
Writing for the publication, Maguire argued that the monarchy’s handling of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has caused lasting damage to the institution.
He further claimed that King Charles acted too slowly against his brother despite warnings.
Maguire suggested that past financial support for Andrew, including efforts to shield him from legal troubles linked to Epstein, fuelled public anger and intensified scrutiny of the Royal family.
“Everybody else long ago concluded that the eighth in line to the throne was a bad ’un, yet a privileged family continued housing and financing their son, brother and uncle,” he penned.
“The current King and old Queen even loaned him £12million to keep him out of a US court,” he continued. “The blind eyes and deaf ears were enabling him, which is why pretending he was not really one of them, stripping his titles and declaring that police must do whatever they think best, will not wash with anyone except the criminally gullible.”
“And it’s why the monarchy will never be the same again.”
The writer penned, “Democracy group Republic calculates that the hereditary firm costs us in excess of £510million a year in grants, subsidies, unpaid taxes, security, helicopters and jets.
“Heightened public scrutiny and accountability is, thanks to the files on Andrew’s paedophile benefactor Jeffrey Epstein’s, lifting veils that can never again be lowered.”
“The exorbitant price paid for self-serving royals is indefensible when fewer and fewer people would want to be represented by this lot. The inevitable result will be a marginalised Dutch-style monarchy or Britons finally voting for their head of state instead of inheriting an entitled family.”
He also claimed that “Keir Starmer privately advised Charles, I’m told, to distance himself from his since-arrested brother but the King was pushed reluctantly into doing the right thing far too late.”