Prince Andrew should be forgiven following sex abuse scandal, Archbishop of Canterbury suggests
Prince Andrew is ‘seeking to make amends’ and should be forgiven following sex abuse scandal, Archbishop of Canterbury suggests
The Most Reverend Justin Welby said the disgraced Prince should be forgiven Speaking to ITV he said Prince Andrew was trying to make up for the sex scandalThe Duke had been accused of having sex with a girl trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein
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Prince Andrew is ‘seeking to make amends’ and should be forgiven following the sex abuse scandal, the Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested.
Most Reverend Justin Welby says he thinks it’s a ‘very good thing’ that the shamed Royal is trying to make up for his role in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal.
Speaking on ITV tonight, the Archbishop said he felt people should try to forgive the Duke of York, and that everyone should ‘step back a bit’.
It comes after the Queen‘s eldest son was implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal, with claims he had sex with a 17-year-old girl who had been trafficked by the paedophile billionaire.
He eventually paid his accuser, Virginia Guiffre, £12 million in a settlement that stopped it ending up in court.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, pictured here shaking hands with Prince Andrew, has suggested the Duke of York be forgiven
Prince Andrew had been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl who had been trafficked by paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein (pictured)
Archbishop Justin Welby, in an interview with ITV News presenter Tom Bradby, said: ‘Forgiveness really does matter. I think we have become a very, very unforgiving society. There’s a difference between consequences and forgiveness.
‘I think for all of us, one of the ways that we celebrate when we come together is in learning to be a more open and forgiving society.
‘Now with Prince Andrew, I think we all have to step back a bit. He’s seeking to make amends and I think that’s a very good thing.
‘But you can’t tell people how they’re to respond about this. And the issues of the past in the area of abuse are so intensely personal and private for so many people.
‘It’s not surprising. There’s very deep feelings, indeed.’
The intervention by the Archbishop comes days before the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, during which Prince Andrew will not be visible alongside other senior Royals.
Shamed Royal, Prince Andrew (pictured), is ‘trying to make amends’ after being involved in a sex scandal, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said
The Duke has been excluded from the celebrations by Her Majesty, despite reports he was keen to play a role in events over the long bank holiday weekend.
And the Archbishop himself, who had been due to preach at the Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, has pulled out while he deals with Covid and pneumonia.
It comes after Prince Andrew signed a £12 million settlement ensuring claims by Virginia Guiffre that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old would not go to trial. This settlement was not an admission of guilt.
Andrew denied these allegations publicly, including taking part in a now-infamous interview with Emily Maitlis during which he claimed to have been at a Pizza Express in Woking on the night in question.
It comes after a source revealed last week that the disgraced Prince is working overtime to try and win back the trust of the Queen.
Speaking to The Mirror, they said he had been visiting his mother everyday in the build-up to the Jubilee celebrations.
They said: ‘He wants to make it up to the Queen which is why he is doing all he can to see her as much as possible.
‘The rest of the family, apart from Her Majesty, are united in feeling that he should stay out of the limelight and keep quiet having left such a stain on the family.’
