ICYMI: Prince Andrew's statement seems to contradict answers he gave me, writes maitlis
At the heart of the settlement is the biggest question of all: why is a prince who told me he had "no recollection of ever meeting this lady" now paying her what we understand to be upwards of £10m? I distinctly remember putting Virginia Giuffre's accusations to him directly:
See how careful it is to put distance between an acknowledgement of Giuffre's pain - and any responsibility he may or may not have had for it. When he calls her "an established victim of abuse" is he perhaps inferring that her own horrendous circumstances were established long before their paths crossed? He still doesn't, to be fair, acknowledge they ever met.
You'll remember perhaps that when I asked him why he'd chosen to stay at the Manhattan home of a man whom he knew to be a convicted sex offender he told me he believed it was "the honourable and right thing to do". And then explained: "I admit my judgement was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable." A phrase that has in its own way become as legendary as the references to sweat and Pizza Express.
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