Stupidity and arrogance have cost Prince Andrew everything | Stephen Bates

He was never going to win, and now he has struck a settlement that will stand as a stain on his reputation, and that of the monarchy Stephen Bates is a former Guardian royal correspondent It was always going to come to this. Prince Andrew's American lawyer's statement in New York this afternoon announcing the agreed settlement with Virginia Giuffre sets the seal on the prince's humiliation over his association with the convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his friend, the woman who procured g...