@EmpressCixi
Does this show his guilt?
Doesn’t show guilt or innocence. It is more likely that it’s a he said/she said case and both have an equal chance of winning or losing if it went to trial so neither want to risk losing. She gets money a court would award her if she won, and he avoids the prison time if he’d lost...so its win-win.
Water down in some way his actions?
Can’t water down criminal actions if they happened. But it’s one thing to have done something criminal, and quite another for anyone to prove you did it or for you to prove you didn’t do it.
Not surprised. These historic cases revolve around things that happened decades ago. So the likelihood of proof that a certain event happened is slim.
Exactly this. It doesn’t mean Virgina was after money, fame or status, even though
some posters are implying this. It saddens me to think that some women could even think that misogynistic way.
The fact of the matter is that there simply isn’t enough evidence. And if the original photograph was lost, then what other solid proof did she have?
Besides, just because something is true, it doesn’t mean it can be proven in court without foolproof evidence.
Not to mention the fact that despite being a victim of a convicted pedophile and a likewise convicted sex trafficker, she also recruited other vulnerable people due to being groomed to do so, thus she wouldn’t have known what Andrew’s lawyers had up their sleeves that could tarnish her or somehow land her in hot water.
If anything, I do think she has been somewhat vindicated because apparently Andrew had to apologise. And from what I have read from the links provided here, she also has some kind of monetary retribution as well as a sizeable donation to her chosen charity so it might at least help pave the way for her to have a better life after all that she’s been through when she was very young.
Andrew will always have this over his head, his infamous interview with Emily Maitlis will be around forever, he will always be associated with a convicted pedophile and, his close friend, a convicted sex trafficker, nobody will truly know if he’s innocent or not so in so many ways, what has he really won?His reputation is now completely in the gutters. If someone has narcissistic and egocentric tendencies, the loss of a good public image, amongst other things, will lurk over their head a lot. And I strongly suspect he was advised to get this sorted quickly, for the sake of his daughters and the rest of the royal family, whilst he himself would have preferred to drag it out to prove his “innocence”.