Palace sources said the ruthless and swift decision had been widely discussed within the Royal Family following Andrew s failed bid to persuade a judge to dismiss the civil lawsuit.
Board meetings were called, frantic phone calls made. Several took the decision to end their association with immediate effect. They included the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, the Golf Foundation, the Children’s Foundation, the Outward Bound Trust and the British Science Association. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children’s Fund said: “We felt that as a children s charity it was not appropriate for him to remain patron.”
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When Prince Andrew announced in 2019 he was “stepping back from public duties for the foreseeable future”, many of his charities found themselves in a difficult position.
Prince Andrew removed as patron of almost 50 organisations amid Epstein fallout
16 May, 2021 01:00 AM
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By: Victoria Ward and Lizzie Roberts
The Duke of York has been quietly or publicly removed as patron of almost 50 organisations, The Telegraph can reveal, despite his expressed intention to one day return to public life.
The proportion of his charities and organisations, thought to be at least one in four, that opted to sever ties with the Duke after his friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, underlines the scale of the damage to his reputation.
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