The son of Elizabeth II conquered the tallest building in Europe. Prince Andrew, 52, rappelled from London's Shard skyscraper, currently the largest in Europe, from the 87th to the 20th floor. The prince's team consisted of 40 people. The event was held for charitable purposes - the proceeds will go to educational projects for children around the world.
“I won’t even tell you whether it was easy and simple or not. “I will never do this again,” said the prince immediately after the descent.
According to the Daily Mail, the prince prepared thoroughly for the descent. During his summer training with Marines in Arbroath, he was able to climb 67 floors in just 30 minutes.
“Thanks to the training, I was able to start the descent without too much shaking. It was very important to take the first step,” said the Duke of York.
This event brought in more than 350,000 euros in charitable contributions. Despite the fact that the organizers expected an income of one million pounds (1.2 million euros), the prince was pleased with the result, notes Sky News. Some of the donations were made by relatives and friends of the 52-year-old prince. For example, 500 pounds (about 600 euros) were contributed by his daughter, Princess Eugenie, who said that she was proud of her father's action.
“One very nice man on the roof warned me - you will slide and hit the windows at first, it may look awkward, but use your knees. That's exactly what I did. Indeed, I simply skimmed through the first sections. To be honest, it was scary,” he said after the descent.
The proceeds will be shared by two charities - the educational foundation Outward Bound Trust, one of whose leaders is Prince Andrew, and the Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund, which helped participants in the action prepare for the risky descent.
Prince Andrew's noble act could not have come at a better time. The fact is that a few days earlier, his nephew Prince Harry found himself at the center of a scandal, once again jeopardizing the reputation of the royal family.
Another august son was filmed naked during a party in Las Vegas. The young man, having met a group of pretty girls in a bar, went up with them to his VIP suite at the five-star Wynn hotel, where the group played strip billiards, as a result of which the prince soon found himself without clothes.
The photos spread all over the world in just a few minutes.
Prince Andrew did not comment on the story with his nephew, but the British media, which were prohibited from publishing photographs of Prince Harry under threat of court, did not fail to note the variety of the august “entertainment.”
Prince Andrew was born on February 19, 1960 at Buckingham Palace. He became the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
Like his older brothers and sisters, he was entrusted to a governess who was involved in his upbringing and education. By the age of 19, he had graduated with a degree in the history of economic and political science and went to the Royal Naval College. In 1979, Prince Andrew joined the Royal Navy to train as a military helicopter pilot. The Prince was later accepted as a military helicopter trainee, signing a contract for 12 years from 11 May 1979.
Already on September 1, he received a promotion, and in 1980 he was awarded the Green Beret. Until 1982, the prince took advanced training courses and became a full-fledged pilot. He joins Naval Airlift Squadron 820 aboard the USS Invincible, where he continues to serve.
On April 2, 1982, the so-called Falklands War began between Great Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands. The main role in this war was given to the Royal Navy and naval aviation, so the British cabinet made every effort to return the prince from the danger zone, but Queen Elizabeth insisted on her son’s desire to remain in the service and participate in the war.
After the end of the war, the Invincible returned to Portsmouth, where it was greeted by the Queen and Prince Philip, along with the families of the other crew members. In his book about that war, Commander Nigel Ward said that the Argentine government was specially preparing a series of assassination attempts on the prince. The commander described Andrew himself as “an excellent pilot and a very promising officer.”
In February 1984, the prince received the rank of lieutenant, after which the Queen appointed him as her personal assistant-adjutant. After this, the prince commanded several units in different regions of the planet.
As for the prince's personal life, on July 23, 1986, he married Sarah Ferguson, whom he had known since childhood. At the wedding and in the first years after it, they were very happy. They had two daughters. However, the prince's constant travel associated with his military career increasingly overshadowed this marriage, which eventually ended in divorce on May 30, 1996. After the divorce, the media repeatedly noted the very warm relationship between the former spouses.
“We managed to work together to bring happiness to our children,” Sarah Ferguson said in an interview.
In recent years, Prince Andrew has served as the UK's special trade envoy.
Since the Duke has no sons, there are no heirs to the title (peerages, except in special cases, are inherited only in the direct male line). If Prince Andrew does not remarry and have a son, then after his death the title "Duke of York" will revert to the crown and can be re-appropriated.
He is 4th in the line of succession to the British throne (after the birth of Prince Harry in 1984).
As a member of the royal family, he has his own coat of arms, based on the national coat of arms of Great Britain.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, former wife of Prince Andrew, at a memorial event with members of the royal family, July 2017Toxic marriages are not uncommon in the royal family, but Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's union is unlike any of them. It's no joke: they divorced more than twenty years ago, but they still can't break up. They call themselves “the happiest divorced couple in the world,” and indeed, these two seem to have a much better life outside of the ties of marriage and the notorious royal protocol. You don’t have to look far for evidence: the former spouses still appear together at the Royal Ascot races, occasionally have dinner, and the press never tires of predicting their re-engagement year after year.
But it seems that Sarah herself, even on pain of death, will not return to the palace chambers. The Duchess of York has always been one of the most smiling royals in the Windsor family, but she only began to smile truly sincerely after her divorce. Like Princess Diana, she too liked to feel life in its absolute - to love, laugh, rejoice and not look at the opinion of society.
And, unexpectedly, this story from the dark Windsor saga has a very good ending. Sarah herself decided so.
Karmic girlfriends
Young Sarah Margaret Ferguson and her close friend Diana Spencer had a lot in common. Both, for example, came from the British aristocracy. True, if Lady Spencer could boast of her father being an earl, then her friend formally did not have any titles. All she could do was casually mention that her ancestry stretches back to Charles II, who ruled back in the 17th century. But the girl almost never did this: compared to Lady Diana, whose family lived in an old family estate, this comment seemed like a pathetic attempt to pretend to be someone she never was.
However, both were included in the royal court. Diana - as a potential bride, first of Prince Andrew, and then of the Prince of Wales, Sarah - as the daughter of a major in the Royal Forces and part-time former coach of the still young Charles. As a child, Sarah often played with Elizabeth’s children, including Andrew, but then, of course, no one could have imagined that this red-haired, always laughing girl, without a single hint of royal manners, could in any way become related to the monarch’s family .
Diana and Sarah spent a lot of time together. They had been friends since they were 14 years old. While Father Spencer persistently cast nets into the royal family, trying to arrange an alliance for his eldest daughter with Charles, and a marriage for his youngest, Diana, with Andrew, the friends attended parties, shared secrets and talked a lot. There was something to talk about: in early childhood, both were faced with the fact that their mothers ran away from the family. Diana’s mother, Frances, ran away from John Spencer after 13 years of marriage (read: “The Spencer family: who is really behind the tragedy of Princess Diana”). Sarah's mother, Susan Marie Wright, left the family when her daughter was only 15. And she didn't just leave, but fled to Argentina with a young polo player.
“I couldn’t understand: how could you leave your children? It’s better to die than to leave your child,” the Princess of Wales later admits to reporters. “In fact, I have a hard time understanding how my mother could leave my sister and me and just disappear,” the Duchess of York will echo her friend.
Both parents, by the way, were also once friends with each other, studying at the same school in Douham, and, perhaps, this was what determined the future karmic nature of the warm relationship between the two Windsor brides.
Red-haired beast with a ruby ring
All her life, Diana Spencer prepared herself for her marriage to Andrew and for the title of Duchess. The girl loved to imagine herself as a heroine from a medieval fairy tale, which, by the way, had all the necessary attributes: a difficult childhood, an evil stepmother (so, at least, it seemed to Diana) and Prince Andrew, looming somewhere on the horizon, who would sooner or later take her to her palace. The fairy tale of her own composition had to be urgently rewritten in 1977, when her older sister Sarah Spencer, with one careless comment, forever turned the Prince of Wales away from her candidacy. The conveyor belt of Spencer's daughters had shifted one place: now Diana had to get Charles. Which, as we know, happened in 1981, when the heir, desperate to build his happiness with Camilla, proposed marriage to 19-year-old Lady Spencer.
From the very first months after the wedding, Diana realized: fairy tales do not exist (read: “Princess Diana: “I cut my wrists already during my honeymoon””). Now the newly minted Princess of Wales imagined herself nothing less than a prisoner of a monstrous protocol, where the prince’s wife was obliged to feign happiness while he secretly dreamed of another. The old family left her completely alone, the new one was only annoyed by the frightened behavior of the new daughter-in-law, at some point considering that she was mentally ill. Sarah Ferguson, with whom Diana periodically crossed paths at official events, remained her only outlet.
Diana's friend - for her own good or bad - never prepared herself for any marriages with princes. Therefore, her youth, like every second London girl’s, was stormy, drunken and romantic. Later, in 1986, when Sarah was almost a duchess, The Times newspaper even dug up a photo of her from boarding school, where she - without a single hint of a swimsuit - throws herself into the school pool. This was all Sarah: always smiling, attracting men, shameless, a real red-haired beast.
Perhaps no one will ever know whether the Princess of Wales was truly motivated by selfish motives when she decided to introduce her close friend to Prince Andrew in 1985, but twenty years after the death of the “queen of people’s hearts”, it is difficult to shake the idea that Diana wanted, so that “her” person would be next to her on the other side of the royal gate.
In any case, Sarah herself was fascinated by the matured Andrew, and although she herself, at 26, understood perfectly well that there was no smell of a wedding here (unless she was an aristocrat and, more importantly, not a virgin), she had no twinge of conscience, with her characteristic adventurism dived into an unusual relationship. And she lost her head. Just like her Andrew, in fact.
The Queen's middle son posed the question of an engagement to Sarah bluntly: either he would marry his beloved, or take as his wife the first prostitute who came into his bed. It was easy to believe: Andrew, a handsome captain of the Royal Navy, moored to foreign shores, of course, was not just sightseeing. In addition, the prince had a precedent - the marriage of his sister Anna, who tied the knot for love. And the Queen, assessing that the Crown had already given birth to a second generation of heirs (meaning William and Harry), gave the go-ahead for the dubious marriage.
Andrew was inspired: seeing Sarah glancing at her friend's famous sapphire ring, he rushed to Garrard in full sail for something similar. And I found it. In 1986, the prince, beaming with happiness, came out to the press, leading his beloved on the arm, on whose ring finger there was a magnificent ring with a Burmese ruby surrounded by ten small diamonds. When choosing a fire stone, Elizabeth's son was inspired by his bride's hair. Alas, if Andrew had thought about the curse that ruby engagement rings carry in the Windsor dynasty, perhaps his choice would have fallen on a different stone. But what has been done cannot be undone: Sarah, with a charming smile and thoughts of a wonderful future, signed up for the most hectic few years of her life.
Fire and air
Diana's close friend finally triumphantly entered the royal family. Like many brides of princes “from the people,” Sarah was perceived as a breath of fresh air. Andrew and his beloved had a magnificent wedding (by the way, like Diana and Charles - in July) - grandiose, with a magnificent wedding in Westminster Abbey and with the solemn conferment of the titles of Duke and Duchess of York. In two years, the couple will have their first daughter, Princess Beatrice, and a couple of years later, baby Eugenie.
Diana rejoiced for her friend’s happiness - as much as a woman who had lost faith in her own marriage could. Was it sincere? Later, the Princess of Wales admits that she seriously expected that Sarah would soon withdraw into herself, unable to withstand the oppression of the palace rules and the temper of the royal family. This was the case with herself, and only this scenario was considered by Diana to be the only possible and universal for any Windsor daughter-in-law. But it was not in Sarah's character to despair. Possessing a natural charm and easy disposition, Sarah overnight became a family favorite. During almost every meal, the newly-crowned Duchess of York sparkled with humor, making every member of the family fall in love with her.
Diana later recalled that Sarah and Andrew were not yet engaged, and the Windsor family charmedly said that she should be like her friend. “Why can’t you just be as cheerful as Sarah?” Charles asked her then. And Diana, who took every little thing to heart, looked at her friend with different eyes. It was envy.
Driven by the opinion of the royal family, the Princess of Wales deliberately tried to awaken in herself something that was almost gone in her, but Sarah had in abundance - natural spontaneity and love of extreme sports, which in Diana’s performance sometimes resulted in outright recklessness. She ran to concerts, pulling on leather pants, in front of everyone during the races at Ascot, together with Sarah, she poked an umbrella in the butts to harm the walking ladies. These were blatant violations of etiquette, but Sarah looked so natural and harmless that she always got away with such antics. Diana was less fortunate.
“I envied her very much,” recalled the Princess of Wales, “I didn’t understand how she managed to take everything so easily. While I was struggling to simply survive, she seemed to be enjoying her situation.”
Unlike Diana, who was thrown into the royal family as a naive 20-year-old girl, 27-year-old Sarah had an easier time accepting the prickly rules of palace protocol. But this did not mean that she perceived her new responsibilities with enthusiasm. After the birth of her first daughter, the woman began to rapidly gain weight - both her natural predisposition and the stress she experienced had an effect. Compared to Diana, she began to look worse and worse. Newspapers vied with each other to compare the elegant style of the Princess of Wales with the slightly provincial manner of Sarah, her modest smile with the loud laugh of the Duchess of York, her thin waist with the plump figure of Andrew’s wife. After the youngest Eugenia was born, the duchess already weighed more than 100 kilograms, for which she received the nickname “Duchess of Pork” (pork - pork). “I believed everything that was written. It seemed to me that this was true. I was so unhappy and ate all the time. Then I was almost crushed by criticism for the fact that I had gained a lot of weight. It was a vicious circle, and I didn’t know how to break it,” Sarah would later say, even admitting that she would like to suffer from bulimia like Diana, so that her problems would not affect her figure. It is symbolic that eating disorders will also become common in the destinies of the two friends.
Something else will also unite them: mutual infidelity to their husbands. Moreover, all four will have very different motives. Charles will cheat on Diana out of love for Camilla, Diana will cheat on Charles out of revenge, Andrew will cheat on Sarah out of an old port habit, and she will cheat on him out of boredom. The Duke of York will often disappear on voyages due to duty, so his wife will have to seek solace in the arms of other men. Sarah didn't know how to be faithful. This was clear before. She loved male attention too much, and perhaps this was what united her with Andrew’s aunt, Princess Margaret.
She began to be noticed more and more often in the company of various men, the list of which included, among others, millionaire Steve White, financier Johnny Brian and even actor Sylvester Stallone. Rumors about her frivolity were deliberately cultivated by the press. People stopped respecting her; now they called her simply and unpretentiously - Fergie.
Their marriage to Andrew lasted six years - they separated in 1992, and four years later they officially announced their divorce. So the loud separation of Charles and Diana was followed by an equally loud separation of the Duke and Duchess of York. A year later, Sarah's close friend would die in Paris, tragically ending the story of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Perhaps with her death the karmic connection between the two friends will be interrupted - Sarah will finally take the path of happiness. But already outside the royal family.
Instead of an epilogue
“They stand together as if they were picked by a computer,” the Queen Mother once joked about Sarah and Andrew. And her words did not fly into the air, because the Duke and Duchess of York (after the divorce, the woman retained her title) did not burn bridges even after parting. Sarah lived with her ex-husband for several more years, raising children with him. The former mother-in-law, however, hastened to instantly remove the red-haired harlot from her circle: the Duchess would not even receive an invitation to the wedding of William and Catherine.
Of course, after the divorce, Sarah's life did not immediately return to normal. There was everything: depression, drunkenness, and waste. “I am aware of the fact that I drank quite heavily. You see, at that time I was not myself. When this whole story lasted, I was at the very bottom. I left the royal family in order to find freedom, and with freedom came need. Now I’m in a completely desperate situation,” Sarah told reporters. It was cunning: of course, no one left her without compensation. She just squandered all her funds on endless parties and business adventures.
There were also scandals: for example, when an undercover reporter from the News of the World tabloid, pretending to be a businessman, asked Sarah to arrange a meeting with Andrew, and she asked for half a million pounds sterling for the service. The video went viral. Sarah sank deeper and deeper to the bottom.
But, perhaps, this is exactly what she needed - and from the very bottom, Sarah, having pulled herself together, very soon reached for the stars. She got back into shape, wrote several books about it, made a film about Queen Victoria and gradually regained her good name. Even Elizabeth II appreciated the efforts of her former daughter-in-law, who for the last few years has even invited the duchess to her own events and vacations at Balmoral.
Sarah, Duchess of York, is once again enjoying life as she did in her roaring 20s. She dresses beautifully, has affairs with men, communicates warmly with Andrew, spends time with her daughters (whom, unlike her mother, she never abandoned) and attends social events. Events. And three days before the birthday, she and Andrew married their youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie. And this royal wedding was in no way inferior to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. And, of course, Sarah was the main star of this wedding after the bride.
This year Sarah turns 59 years old - and, it seems, in her case it is obvious: life begins not after 40, but after a divorce from the Windsors.
Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, Duke of York, the middle son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, who is divorced from much-hated royal Sarah Fergusson (pictured right), has found himself in the crosshairs of the world press due to the scandal surrounding the sale of his Sunninghill Park estate , built of red brick in the famous racecourse town of Ascot in Berkshire, bought for him as a wedding gift in 1986.
"Energy tycoon Kenes Rakishev, 29, has reportedly purchased the Sunninghill Park estate from the prince, paying £3 million over its estimated value of £12 million," RIA Novosti notes.
Also, recently the British press has more than once drawn attention to Prince Andrew’s friendship with shown in the photo a prominent and wealthy representative of the Kazakh business community, holding the post of executive director of the Munaigas Engineering company, Gogoi Ashkenazi (Gauhar Berkalieva, Ruspres news agency: mistress of Timur Kulibayev, husband of the daughter of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Dinara).
The Duke of York introduced Goga Ashkenazi to Queen Elizabeth last year, they spoke together at a trade conference in Qatar and were seen dining together at Ascot last December.
Of course, this is not the first time the prince has been mentioned in scandalous relationships. Before this, there were many articles about his love affairs.
Then the youngest daughter (pictured left) of the Queen of Great Britain's middle son, Prince of York Andrew and, accordingly, the granddaughter of Elizabeth II, gave her grandmother an unpleasant surprise on her official birthday - one of the school teachers discovered 18-year-old Princess Eugenia frolicking in the college yard in the nude , reports the British tabloid The Sun.
According to the newspaper, the teacher woke up in the middle of the night from an unexpected noise - under his windows about ten girls were dancing in an Eva costume, including the princess. Fortunately, there were no young people nearby. It later turned out that the girls did not take drugs, but were under the influence of alcohol.
The name of Princess Eugenie appears from time to time in gossip columns, but not as often as the name of her sister, Princess Beatrice, a lover of nightclubs and riotous entertainment.
Goga Ashkenazi (Berkalieva)
Born in Dzhambul region. Kazakh. Mother - Saule Aralbaeva.
She was educated in England, where she has lived since the early 1990s. She studied modern history and economics at Oxford.
International media called her “the ex-wife of Aidar Akayev, the son of ex-President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev” (in 1998-99), “the wife of American millionaire Stefan Ashkenazy”, “the mistress of Prince Andrew of York”, “the girlfriend of an international playboy and the organizer of Formula -1" Flavio Briatore (since 2002)".
Since 2007 - chief executive manager in the London office of the Kazakh oil and gas company MunaiGas Engineering Ltd and, according to the News of the World tabloid, owner of a 5% stake in the Altyn Almas corporation, 5% in the Kazturboremont plant, and the MunaiGas Engineering company. , which is building the fourth workshop of the Opornaya compressor station and oil and gas pipelines in the Mangystau region... she is credited with friendship with T.A. Kulibayev" ("Megapolis", No. 43 (408) dated 12/01/2008).
He lives with his mother and son either in a country house in Surrey or in a $56 million mansion in Holland Park in London.
Currently time (12.2008) - divorced. Son - Adam Berkaliev (born December 27, 2007, London, father, according to the newspaper "Events and People", No. 5, April 7 - 14, 2008 - Timur Kulibaev).
As you know, fairy tales about princes and princesses, which children love to hear, always have a happy ending. The heirs to the throne in them are distinguished by ambition, valor and are guided by the ideals of goodness and justice. However, in reality, as practice shows, children of monarchs often find themselves at the center of scandals and become participants in lawsuits that are initiated in connection with their far from exemplary behavior. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was no exception in this sense. His business reputation in the British kingdom, where conservative foundations and traditions are strong, has certainly suffered. But does the above-mentioned heir to the throne really leave much to be desired? Let's consider this issue in more detail.
Curriculum Vitae
Prince Andrew was born in 1960 at Buckingham Estate.
The boy became the second male offspring born to Queen Elizabeth II in her marriage to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, who bore the title of Prince of Greece and Denmark. Prince Andrew, like other children of the royal family, was raised by a governess. By the age of 19, the young man already had a diploma in the history of economic and political sciences. Taking the document with him, he goes to study at the Royal Naval College, and soon he is enrolled in the flotilla, where he begins to learn the basics of the profession of “military helicopter pilot.”
Beginning of a pilot's career
It didn’t take long for the heir to the British throne to become a trainee on a military aircraft. In May 1979, Prince Andrew signed an aviation contract for twelve years.
In 1980, the young man received a green beret. Over the next two years, the member of the royal family takes advanced training courses and then becomes a professional pilot. He joins the crew of Naval Airlift Squadron 820, which serves aboard the aircraft carrier USS Invincible.
War
Soon a military conflict begins to develop between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. The strike forces of the European power were, of course, naval aviation and the Royal Navy, so the English Cabinet did not want to endanger the health and life of Elizabeth II’s middle son. However, she did not support this idea and insisted that Prince Andrew participate in the war for national interests. After her, the royal couple met their son in Portsmouth, where he arrived on the ship Invincible.
The heir to the throne received gratitude from the commander, who called him a promising officer and a highly qualified pilot.
Career peak
Prince Andrew (son of Elizabeth 2), whose biography undoubtedly deserves separate consideration, continues to climb the career ladder: in 1984 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant, and his mother appointed him as a personal assistant - adjutant. Subsequently, the royal scion is entrusted with command of the army in various parts of the planet.
In the winter of 2010, the Duke of York, in honor of his fiftieth anniversary, received another military rank - now he is an honorary rear admiral. Some time later, Prince Andrew (Elizabeth's son) decides to end his military career and enter civilian service as a special trade representative for Great Britain.
Personal life
The relationship between the son of the British Queen and the opposite sex has become the subject of many rumors and rumors. Prince Andrew got married when he was 26 years old.
His chosen one was the daughter of Prince Charles' sports manager, Sarah Margaret Ferguson. They knew each other from a young age, but the real spark of love ran between them in 1985. Prince Andrew and met by chance at the royal races. Sharks of the pen wrote that Princess Diana, who wanted to distract the prince from an unsuccessful romance with actress Koo Stark, played an important role in starting the relationship. The wedding took place in the summer of 1986 at Westminster Abbey, at which time Prince Andrew was awarded the title Duke of York. Andrew presented his wife with a truly royal gift - an engagement ring inlaid with a Burmese ruby.
In the early 90s, when the head of the family “went to sea,” Prince Andrew’s wife led a far from reclusive life. She was often seen in male society. This is how the first crack appeared in the relationship between Ferguson and the Prince of York. In 1992, the royal couple announced that their union was coming to an end, but only four years later an official divorce was filed. In their marriage, Andrew and Sarah had two daughters - Beatrice (1988) and Eugenia (1990). Subsequently, the ex-wife of the Prince of York and his offspring moved to live in the family residence. Sarah Ferguson remained and remains on friendly terms with Andrew.
Scandal No. 1
One of the unpleasant incidents that negatively affected the business reputation of the Prince of York involved his ex-wife.
She was accused of the following: she wanted to receive a large sum of money for arranging for her ex-husband to meet an entrepreneur who was having problems in his business. It was expected that the royal scion, who held the high post of special trade representative, would help resolve the “business” troubles of his new acquaintance. The transaction amount was estimated at £500,000. Moreover, “close to the court” gladly accepted an advance for her work. Subsequently, the fraud was revealed, and Prince Andrew, whose photos began to appear en masse, hastened to declare that he knew nothing about his wife’s intentions. Sarah Ferguson said that she “decided to take such a bold action” only because she was experiencing financial difficulties.
Scandal No. 2
Another painful incident for the Prince of York is the accusation of sexual harassment against an underage girl. The plaintiff appealed to the American court so that justice would prevail.
She claimed that the son of Elizabeth II repeatedly ended up in bed with her: they say, he really liked the girl’s figure and slender legs. The victim added that for the “night of love” she received 15 thousand dollars from the Prince of York. The plaintiff also added that she worked as a courtesan for a certain banker Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew was among his regular clients. One way or another, the defendant in every possible way denied sexual relations between him and Epstein’s concubine.
An unusual case...
An extraordinary incident occurred with the second son of Elizabeth II when he was in residence at Buckingham Palace.
Law enforcement agencies mistook him for a thief. Prince Andrew decided to take a walk around the palace garden in the evening. Seeing the man and not recognizing him, the police asked to show documents. In addition, the guards pointed a gun at the heir to the throne, but the police rejected this version of what was happening. This reaction of law enforcement officers was explained by the fact that on the eve of the incident, a certain person tried to illegally enter the palace territory. Naturally, the police apologized to Prince Andrew for the inconvenience caused.
Finally, we note that the Duke of York has no male children: if he does not marry again and does not have a son, his title may revert to the Crown.
12 June 2012, 19:41Family and ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her husband, Duke of Edinburgh Philip. Victoria(English Victoria, baptismal names Alexandrina Victoria - English Alexandrina Victoria) (May 24, 1819 - January 22, 1901) - Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from June 20, 1837, Empress of India from May 1, 1876 (proclamation in India - January 1 1877), last representative of the Hanoverian dynasty on the throne of Great Britain. Victoria remained on the throne for more than 63 years, longer than any other British monarch. 
Victoria's father was Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III, the mother of the future queen was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, Dowager Princess of Leiningen (1786 - March 16, 1861), who already had two children from her first marriage. Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, died when her daughter was eight months old. She was brought up under the guidance of the Duchess of Northumberland; received good knowledge of botany and music. Victoria had been married since February 10, 1840 to her cousin, Duke Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (August 26, 1819 - December 14, 1861), to whom she gave the title of Prince Consort in 1857. Victoria and Albert had 9 children; through her children and grandchildren, Victoria became the “Grandmother of Europe”, her descendants - Windsors, kings of Great Britain, as well as the Hohenzollerns (Kaiser Wilhelm II is her grandson), the Spanish Bourbons and the Romanovs. 
One of Queen Victoria's 9 children Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse and Rhine(25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878), married Prince (later Grand Duke) Ludwig of Hesse. Mother of Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II. In July 1862, Princess Alice married Prince Ludwig of Hesse (12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892), who later became Duke of Hesse and the Rhine. The family, into which 7 children were born, lived in the capital of the duchy, the city of Darmstadt. 
One of the 7 children of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and Rhine, Victoria(5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950) married Ludwig Battenberg (Mountbatten), grandmother of Philip of Edinburgh, husband of Elizabeth II; 
Victoria was born at Windsor Palace in the presence of her grandmother Queen Victoria. She was the first-born child of Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ludwig IV of Hesse. At one of the family meetings, Victoria met her distant relative, German Prince Ludwig Battenberg (1854-1921), son of Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt. The couple lived in different parts of Europe, depending on Ludwig's place of service. One of Victoria's 4 children Princess Alice of Battenberg(1885-1969), married to Andrew, Prince of Greece; From this marriage, Prince Philip of Greece was born, who in 1947 married the future Queen Elizabeth II and took his mother’s surname (Mountbatten) during this marriage. 
Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Maria Battenberg - mother of Prince Philip and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II of England was born in Berkshire, England on February 25, 1885 in the family of Prince Ludwig Alexander of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt. Her mother was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England and the sister of the last Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. Alice met her future husband at the coronation of King Edward VII. Her chosen one was the Greek Prince Andrew, the son of King George I of Greece and Queen Olga of Greece, née Grand Duchess. Andrei was the grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and the great-grandson of Russian Emperor Nicholas I. They married on October 6, 1903. The wedding was attended by many descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark. The family had five children: Margarita (1905-1981) - the first great-great-granddaughter Queen Victoria, married to Godfrey, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Theodora (1906-1969) - wife of Prince Berthold of Baden. Cecilia (1911-1937) - married the Crown Prince of Hesse and Rhine Georg Donaus, died along with her husband and children. Sophia (1914-2001) - married in her first marriage to Christopher of Hesse, in her second to Georg Wilhelm of Hanover. Philip (1921) - husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, Prince Consort. 
Prince Philip was the fifth child and only son of Prince Andrew, son of King George I of Greece and brother of the then reigning King Constantine, and at birth had the title of Prince of Greece and Denmark. Prince Andrew belonged to the Danish house of Glücksburg, which reigned in Greece, and his wife and mother of Philip, Princess Alice, belonged to the Battenberg family. Philip is the great-grandson of the Danish king Christian IX, the great-great-grandson of the English Queen Victoria and the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. Maria Tekskaya- wife of the British King George V, mother of Edward VIII and George VI. Queen Mary was also Empress of India and Queen of Ireland. 
Maria was born and raised in England. Her father was a prince from the morganatic branch of the Württemberg house of the Dukes of Teck, her mother was a member of the British royal family, the granddaughter of King George III. On July 6, 1893, Princess Maria of Teck married the prince George V.
George V second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) was born on 3 June 1865 at Marlborough House (London). At baptism he received the name Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert. His father is Edward VII, his mother is Alexandra of Denmark. She is the sister of Maria Feodorovna - the wife of the Russian Emperor Alexander III and the mother of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. George V was very similar in appearance to Nicholas II, his maternal cousin: George's mother Alexandra and Nicholas's mother Dagmar were the daughters of King Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise, née Princess of Hesse-Kassel. On January 14, 1892, during an influenza epidemic, Albert's elder brother Victor died suddenly. The death of his brother made George second in line to the throne. In May 1892, Queen Victoria created her grandson the title Duke of York. In July 1893, he married Princess Victoria Maria of Teck of Baden-Württemberg, who had previously been engaged to his older brother. After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, the couple received the title Princes of Wales. In 1910, Mary's husband became king and she received the title Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India. At the end of the First World War on July 17, 1917, George V renounced all German titles and ranks, as well as the family name, for himself and his family, adopting the surname “Windsor” after Windsor Castle. After George's death in 1936, their eldest son Edward became king. But less than ten months later, he abdicated the throne to marry American Wallis Simpson. Mary's second son became king George VI. Queen Mary strongly supported her son, who suffered from a stutter, until his death in 1952. Mary died the following year, at the beginning of the reign of her granddaughter Elizabeth II. 
George VI- King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia and South Africa since December 11, 1936. From the Windsor dynasty. Second son of King George V and his wife, Queen Mary. Albert had four brothers: the future King Edward VIII (1894-1972), Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), Prince John (1905-1919), who suffered from epilepsy and autism, and sister Mary (1897-1965), married Countess of Harwood. By nature, Albert was a modest and shy person, and he also suffered from a severe stutter. In June 1920 he became Duke of York, on April 26, 1923 he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore. 
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the consort of King George VI and Queen Consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 as Queen Elizabeth, the last Empress of India. (1936-1950), Lord Warden of the Cinque Harbors (1978-2002). Mother of the now reigning Queen Elizabeth II. George VI met her back in 1905 (5-year-old Elizabeth treated 10-year-old Albert to candied cherries from a cake). 
Prince Albert, Duke of York ("Bertie" in his family) first asked Elizabeth to marry him in 1921, but she refused, "fearing that she would never again be able to think, speak and act freely, not as I feel as I should.” When he announced that he would not marry anyone else, his mother, Queen Mary, visited Glamis and was convinced that Elizabeth was “the only girl who could make Bertie happy,” but did not interfere. At that time, Elizabeth was also courted by James Stewart, Albert's equerry, until he left for America. In February 1922, Elizabeth was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Albert's sister, Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles. The following month, Albert proposed marriage again and was again refused. Finally, in January 1923, Elizabeth agreed to marry, despite misgivings about life in the royal family. They married on 26 April 1923 in Westminster Abbey. Two children were born into the family - princess on April 21, 1926 Elizabeth-Alexandra (future Queen Elizabeth II),and on 21 August 1930 - Princess Margaret Rose.
Elizabeth II(English Elisabeth II, full name - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elisabeth Alexandra Mary; April 21, 1926, London) - regnant Queen of Great Britain. Comes from the Windsor dynasty. She ascended the throne on February 6, 1952 at the age of 25 after the death of her father King George VI. He is the oldest British (English) monarch in history. She currently ranks second in history for the longest tenure on the British throne (after Queen Victoria). Queen Elizabeth II has four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In 1930, Elizabeth's only sister was born - Princess Margaret.
Princess Margaret born August 21, 1930 at Glamis Castle, Scotland. She was the youngest daughter of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. On May 6, 1960, she married Antony Armstrong-Jones, a photographer, a descendant of a minor Welsh noble family, who received the title Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley. From this marriage two children are born: David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, born November 3, 1961, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, born May 1, 1964. In 1978, the Earl and Countess of Snowdon divorced, but in 2002 Margaret died of apoplexy. While studying at college, Prince Philip met his fourth cousins, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, who attended the school with King George VI. After this, a correspondence began between Philip and Elizabeth, and in 1946 Philip asked the king for permission to marry the heiress to the throne. In 1947, 21-year-old Elizabeth married 26-year-old Philip Mountbatten, a British naval officer, member of the Greek and Danish royal families and great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Philip and Elizabeth have four children: Charles, Prince of Wales (b.1948), Princess Anne (b.1950), Prince Andrew, Duke of York (b.1960) and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex (b.1964). Charles, Prince of Wales(English: Charles, Prince of Wales), or simply Prince Charles, is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, heir to the British throne. 
It is known that in the 1970s Charles courted many girls. In 1979, he proposed to his second cousin Amanda Knatchbull, the granddaughter of the legendary commander, the last Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten, but Amanda did not give her consent to the marriage. In 1980, Charles dated Lady Sarah Spencer, daughter of the aristocrat John Spencer - Viscount Althorp and the future 8th Earl Spencer, a member of the same branch of the Spencer-Churchill family as the Duke of Marlborough and Winston Churchill. Charles met her younger sister Diana, whom he eventually married on July 29, 1981. Her paternal ancestors were of royal blood through the illegitimate sons of King Charles II and the illegitimate daughter of his brother and successor, King James II. The Earls Spencer have long lived in the very center of London, in Spencer House. 
However, the marriage was unsuccessful. Relations between the spouses soon deteriorated, and since 1992 they officially lived separately, and in 1996 they divorced. The scandal attracted significant public attention; it did not have the best effect on the reputation of the Prince of Wales. Diana died in a car accident in Paris in 1997. Charles and Diana had two sons: Prince William, now Duke of Cambridge (b. 21 June 1982) and Prince Harry(Henry) (b. September 15, 1984). Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge (English: Prince William of the United Kingdom, Duke of Cambridge, born William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) - Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus, eldest son of Prince Charles of Wales and his first wife, the Princess Diana, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. As a member of the royal family, he has his own coat of arms, based on the national coat of arms of Great Britain. On November 16, 2010, Clarence House announced the engagement of Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton. The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton took place on April 29, 2011 at London's Cathedral Church of St. Peter's in Westminster Abbey. 
Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales(eng. Prince Henry (Harry) of Wales, full name Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor is the youngest son of Prince Charles of Wales and his first wife, the late Princess Diana, grandson of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. 
As a member of the royal family, on his eighteenth birthday he was awarded a personal coat of arms, based on the coat of arms of the monarch of the United Kingdom, as well as the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002), the Afghanistan Campaign Medal (2008), the Diamond Medal Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II (2012). One of the most eligible bachelors on the planet. On April 9, 2005, Prince Charles married for the second time - to his long-time girlfriend, with whom he maintained a relationship both before and during marriage - Camilla Parker Bowles from a noble family, daughter of Bruce Shand, mother - nee Cubitt. 
The wedding ceremony took place in a civil rather than ecclesiastical manner - for the first time in the history of the British royal family. Through her marriage to Charles, Camilla received all of his titles, but chooses not to use her title of Princess of Wales as a sign of respect for the late Princess Diana. She uses the title Duchess of Cornwall instead. Princess Anne- member of the British royal family, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. 
The princess is known for her charitable work and for being the only member of the British royal family to compete in the Olympic Games. She lived with her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips (born 1948), for 18.5 years. 
From this marriage there are two children: Peter Phillips(1977) and Zara Phillips(1981). After her divorce from Phillips, she entered into a second marriage - with Commander (now Vice Admiral) Timothy Lawrence. As a member of the royal family, he has a personal coat of arms based on the national coat of arms of Great Britain. Zara Anna Elizabeth Phillips(eng. Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips; born May 15, 1981, Paddington, London) is a member of the British royal family, the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and thirteenth in the line of succession to the throne. Married to England rugby captain Mike Tindall, but kept her maiden name. Zara graduated from a privileged private school in Gordonston, Scotland. During her studies, she represented her school in hockey, athletics and gymnastics competitions. She later graduated from the University of Exeter as an equine physiotherapist. Peter married a 31-year-old Canadian Autumn Kelly. On December 29, 2010, her first granddaughter was born - Savannah Phillips, daughter of Peter Phillips, and, accordingly, the first great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II. 
Prince Andrew, Duke of York- British prince, rear admiral. 
Third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. The title of Duke of York was granted to him on July 23, 1986 - the day of his marriage to Sarah, Duchess of York. The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York (from whom he has been divorced since 30 May 1996) have two children: Princess Beatrice of York(born August 8, 1988) and Princess Evgeniya(Eugenia) of York (born 23 March 1990). Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York(English: Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York; born August 8, 1988) is a member of the British royal family. Eldest daughter of Andrew, Duke of York, second son of the current Queen Elizabeth II, and Sarah, Duchess of York. She received her primary education at Upton House School in Windsor, after which Beatrice, like her younger sister, Princess Eugenie of York, studied at Coworth Park School. At 19 years old, the British princess began working as a saleswoman at the famous Selfridges department store in London. Her responsibilities included servicing VIP clients. For a month, Beatrice worked five days a week from nine in the morning to five in the evening. The Queen's granddaughter did not receive money for her work - this became her work experience, which all members of the royal family are supposed to acquire. In 2007, the extravagant princess starred in Martin Scorsese's film The Young Victoria, a historical melodrama about Queen Victoria. And although Beatrice is a direct descendant of Victoria, her role in the film turned out to be quite insignificant; she did not have to say even a couple of words on camera, playing one of the ladies-in-waiting. Princess Eugenie Victoria Helen of York(English: Princess Eugenie Victoria Helena of York, born March 23, 1990) is a member of the British royal family. She is the youngest daughter of Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York. She is also the sixth and second woman in the line of succession to the throne of the sixteen Commonwealth states, after her elder sister, Beatrice. 
She and her sister are the only granddaughters of the Queen to be elevated to the title of Princess and Her Royal Highness. Prince Edward (Edward), Earl of Wessex- a member of the British Royal Family, the third son and youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is 7th in the line of succession to the British throne, after his older brothers and their children. On June 19, 1999, Prince Edward married an employee of his company Sophie Rhys-Jones. In a departure from tradition, their wedding took place not in Westminster Abbey, but in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. On his wedding day, Prince Edward was given the title Earl of Wessex. His wife became Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex. 
At the wedding, Buckingham Palace also announced that Prince Edward's children would be treated as children of an earl and would not receive the titles of princes/princesses and would not be styled royal highnesses. Two children were born into the family of Edward and Sophie: a daughter Louise(Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary, b. November 8, 2003) - “Lady Louise Windsor” (Windsor is the surname of descendants of members of the royal family who do not have personal titles) and son James(James Alexander Philip Theo, b. December 17, 2007) - “James, Viscount Severn” (Viscount Severn is an “additional title” of the Earl of Wessex; according to tradition, the eldest son of the holder of the main title uses the additional title). Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor(b. 8 November 2003, Frimley, Surrey) is the daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophia, Countess of Wessex, the eldest of two children. Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, ninth in line of succession to the British throne. Before the birth of her younger brother James on December 17, 2007, she was ranked eighth. In April 2011, 7-year-old Lady Louise attended the wedding of her cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, as Catherine Middleton's bridesmaid. James Windsor, Viscount Severn- the second child and only son of Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and his wife Sophia Rhys-Jones. He is eighth in line of succession to the British throne. 
On April 19, 2008, Viscount Severn was baptized in the house church of Windsor Castle. James's christening shirt was copied from that of Empress Victoria of Germany. Like his older sister Lady Louise Windsor, James does not actually hold the titles of Prince and Royal Highness to which he is entitled under the 1917 law.
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