December 15, 2024 14:22 (IST)

Make this your homepage

Foreign

Kolkata woman strangled, beheaded and chopped into pieces for refusing brother-in-law's advances | Arvind Kejriwal, CM Atishi to contest Delhi polls from current constituencies | Atul Subhash suicide case: Wife Nikita, her mother and brother arrested | Pushpa 2 stampede: Allu Arjun walks out of jail, actor's lawyer slams delay in release | Donald Trump intends to end 'inconvenient' and 'very costly' Daylight Saving Time | Suchir Balaji: Indian-origin former OpenAI researcher found dead at US apartment | Bengaluru techie suicide: Karnataka Police issues summons to wife Nikita, her family members | French President Macron appoints centrist leader Francois Bayrou as new Prime Minister | Congress always prioritised personal interest over Constitution: Rajnath Singh | Jaishankar calls attack on Hindus in Bangladesh 'a source of concern'

Prince Andrew

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Prince Andrew gives up military titles, patronages facing sexual assault charge: Buckingham Palace

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Jan 14, 2022, at 05:55 am

#PrinceAndrew #BuckinghamPalace #QueenElizabethII #SexualAssaultCharge

London/IBNS: Queen Elizabeth II's second son Prince Andrew, who is facing a US civil case related to sexual assault, has given up his honorary military titles, the Buckingham Palace said in a stament on Thursday.

"With The Queen's approval and agreement, The Duke of York's military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen," a statement from the Palace said.

"The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen," it added.

The announcement came after a judge in New York on Wednesday ruled against the prince, who had tried to have the case against him thrown out.

A former Royal Navy helicopter pilot who flew in the 1982 Falklands War, Andrew is accused of sexually assaulting Virginia Giuffre when she was 17.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.