Prince Andrew Desperate To Return As Working Royal After Damaging Issue, Expert Says
Prince Andrew has been desperate to be a working royal again, and he is now using his relationship with the Queen to make his plans work.
Before Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the controversial Prince Andrew purportedly started making his way back to his active royal duties.
According to royal author Tina Brown, the Duke of York knows he could use his relationship with his mother to make his plan work.
She shared further details about it in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia. She added that the royal prince expects to be "rehabilitated," but he has not accepted that he should have quiet years ahead.
"Andrew believes, strongly, that he can get back. I'm told that this is something that he is obsessed with, that he believes is going to happen. That overdue time he will get back into the mix," Brown said, per Express UK.
Through Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew reportedly knows he could be back again with his mother's approval since she is the topmost member of the royal family.
Brown noted that the Queen does not have any plan to present him again on balconies. But Prince Andrew keeps on pushing himself in.
Prince Andrew Damaged the Royal Family
His desire to return as a working royal came nearly three years since the BBC interview ignited the sexual allegations by Virginia Giuffre.
The Duke of York suffered condemnation for agreeing to what turned out to be a TV interrogation about him and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. He also faced insults for telling lies throughout the BBC interview.
Prince Andrew denied sexual impropriety and his ties to pedophile Epstein, who took his life at the age of 66. He referred to all trafficking-related crimes as "unbecoming" and said later on that he did not regret being friends with Epstein.
After the interview, he stepped back from public duties for the unforeseeable future.
But his battle did not stop there as Virginia Giuffre filed the document in New York and accused Prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her thrice when she was 18.
She added that she was forced to have intercourse with the royal prince at Ghislaine Maxwell's home in London in 2001. The other incident reportedly happened at a New York mansion and Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the Caribbean.
Both parties have already reached a settlement, and the accuser has not given the public any update since then.
