President Donald Trump has spoken out after former Prince Andrew lost his royal titles over ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The president commiserated with the British royal family on Sunday after King Charles stripped Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his titles in a stunning fallout over his years-long friendship with the convicted sex offender.
“I mean, it’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family,” Trump told reporters. “That’s been a tragic situation and it’s too bad. I mean I feel badly for the family.”
Last week, Buckingham Palace announced that Andrew would lose his titles and get kicked out of the Royal Lodge over his controversial friendship with the disgraced financier and his legal settlement with Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent victims, who accused him of sexual assault.
“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said.
Andrew, 65, has long been haunted by the specter of Epstein. The scandal reached a fever pitch in November 2019, when Andrew told the BBC in a disastrous interview that knowing Epstein had “some seriously beneficial outcomes” as he denied ever meeting Giuffre, who took her own life in April.
Giuffre’s family hailed the King’s move a “victory” for her.
“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family, brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage,” her siblings said in a statement last week. “Virginia Roberts Giuffre, our sister, a child when she was sexually assaulted by Andrew, never stopped fighting for accountability for what had happened to her and to countless other survivors like her.”
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