Prince Andrew, 61, was pictured out horse riding today at WIndsor Caastle amid reports more than 50 organisations and charities have dropped him over his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
Dozens of charities quietly dump Prince Andrew following Epstein embarrassment
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By Victoria Ward and Lizzie Roberts
May 16, 2021 â 9.47am
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London: Prince Andrew has been removed as patron of almost 50 organisations, 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 following the the Duke of Yorkâs friendship with the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, underlines the scale of the damage to his reputation.
Groups such as the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Children s Fund and the Children s Foundation have all dropped the Duke of York as a patron, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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