In fairness to the late Queen it could also be interpreted that she paid VG because she recognised that her claim was valid and that compensation was deserved.
I am not in any way defending the entitled scum which is AMB but the Queen paid a sum which was agreed by VG and her legal team.
Of course no amount of money can ever change the enormous damage suffered but money was what was the only remedy possible as with all civil claims.
It would be for the authorities to bring a criminal case, not VG.
Nobody can know the conversations the Queen had with her son and perhaps the 12 million pounds was the bit she could control even if he would never face the truth and own up.
By paying she effectively outed him as guilty and must have been aware of that.