Disgraced Prince Andrew is a “toxic” presence in the royal family who won’t be returning to his duties anytime soon, a report claimed Sunday.
The scandal-scarred Duke of York was booted from royal duties six months ago after trying to justify his friendship with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a train-wreck BBC interview.
Since then, he’s been plagued by other controversies, including getting sued by a former friend over $8 million he allegedly owes for a ski chalet purchased in 2014.
And a new Netflix docu-series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” resurfaced allegations from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who claims she was sex trafficked to the prince by Epstein on at least three occasions when she was 17. He has denied the allegations.
Royal sources described Andrew to the UK’s Sunday Times as a “busted flush,” whose presence in the family is “toxic.”
The royal family has “no plans to review” Andrew’s position and Queen Elizabeth II is resigned to her so-called favorite son’s withdrawal from public life, according to the Times.
The 60-year-old royal — who had hoped his status change in the family would only be temporary — recently hired PR specialist Mark Gallagher in an effort to clear his name and clean-up his image, the report said.
Last month, he was photographed in a rare appearance with ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, packing up gift bags for British hospice workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
The royal family told the paper that nothing has changed since Andrew’s November announcement that he was stepping back from his duties “for the foreseeable future.”