Will prince settle for a quiet life?

SOME of you may remember that last Saturday this column asked if there would ever be any way back to public life for Prince Andrew. We said that the British public's rejection of him seemed set in stone, their antipathy fixed and remorseless.

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The reason behind the question was the prince's appearance at the Royal Family's annual Easter Sunday service at Windsor Castle. One snap poll immediately afterwards showed fully 75 per cent of people wish he'd stayed away and want him to keep out of sight, permanently.

The article was written some hours before the tragic news broke about the apparent suicide of Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Andrew of sexually abusing her on three separate occasions when she was aged just 17.