The latest script twist in the Prince Andrew scandal: the role of Meghan Markle
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's lawyer, the alleged victim of her se**al abuse, wants to call the Duchess of Sussex as a witness
It seems that Meghan Markle still can not cross her agenda next appointments with the justice. A few weeks ago, the judge dismissed the appeal filed by the publishing house Associated Newspaper Limited, giving her a new judicial victory and avoiding, at least for the moment, the possibility that she would have to go to testify in person.
But you may have to go to court anyway, albeit through a completely different process and that concerns one of your in-laws: this is the new script twist in the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew and the role that Meghan would have . We are talking about the lawsuit against Prince Andrew that Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed last summer, one of the alleged victims of the US magnate Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking plot, a friend of the Duke of York.
The woman has been claiming for a long time that Andrés sexually assaulted her when she was a minor, which materialized last August in a lawsuit, under the New York Child Victims Law. Meanwhile, the son of Isabel II has categorically denied any time of relationship with her.
But before the affirmations of one and the denials of another, it will be the judges who decide. On January 4, District Judge Lewis Kaplan will listen to both parties in order to dismiss the lawsuit or continue with the judicial process. And at this first hearing, each of the legal teams can bring up to 12 witnesses to support their arguments. And this is where Meghan Markle comes in.
Although she had originally considered Sarah Ferguson, Andrés' ex, for questioning on the prosecution, it appears that she has been dismissed due to the fact that she lives in the UK. So David Boies, Virginia Giuffre's lawyer, has assured that the Duchess of Sussex could become the ideal candidate to provide her testimony.
First, because she is a US citizen and lives there, so she is subject to the laws of the country. Second, and in the words of the lawyer himself, she is "a close collaborator of Prince Andrew and, therefore, she is in a position to have seen what he did." And third, and also in her own words, "because of her past association with him, it is quite possible that she has important knowledge."
That is, for Virginia Giuffre's lawyer, Meghan Markle perfectly meets the requirements that are asked of any witness in this process. But some British media have raised the possibility that this may respond more to a media strategy than a legal one.
And it is that nobody goes unnoticed that the relationship of the Dukes of Sussex with the Windsors is not, precisely, the closest, and that includes Prince Andrew. During the two years in which they were part of the Royal House as a couple, they have barely met the Duke of York, and we are very afraid that their private meetings have not been frequent, if they have been.
So the theories point in the same direction: the lawyers of the alleged victim of Prince Andrew want to make as much media noise as possible, since no one is very clear about what Meghan Markle could contribute and what those "important knowledge" are.
What could I have of the adventures of your uncle in law. What is clear is that, if she were really called to testify, the media around the world would echo the quote, which would be very good for the alleged victim and bad for the Duke of York, whose reputation is already more than damaged.
Even if the lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre was dismissed, her connection with the businessman Jeffrey Epstein, which is proven and for which there is numerous graphic evidence, has already brought Prince Andrew several negative consequences.
At the moment, he had to renounce his obligations within the Royal House in November 2019, after giving a television interview to try to clean up the image of him that had exactly the opposite result.
Since then, his appearances in public have been for strictly family reasons and even the official photographs of the wedding of his daughter Beatriz of him were thought so that he would not appear in any of them. If, on the contrary, Judge Kaplan did not admit the motion presented by Prince Andrew to dismiss the lawsuit and the case went ahead, we would be talking about a member of the royal family sitting on the bench, accused of sexual assault, something really scandalous and harmful for the British Crown, with or without the help of Meghan Markle.
