A royal expert has weighed in on the "damaging" situation Prince Andrew has found himself in after Queen Elizabeth stripped him of all his honorary military titles and royal roles in charities and other civic groups.
The monarch's decision was made in light of the ongoing accusations against him from Virginia Giuffre, who alleges she was sex trafficked to the royal by financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2001, when she was 17 and underage.
Ms Giuffre filed a lawsuit in the US against the prince, which royal commentator Dickie Arbiter said has become "damaging to him (Prince Andrew) personally and probably indirectly to the rest of the family".
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"I'm talking about his daughters now and his sons-in-law … it's a point of no return," Mr Arbiter told A Current Affair host Sylvia Jeffreys.
"I believe that the titles having gone, the military honours having gone, there's no comeback from this, I can't see him returning to the military, I can't see him returning to his charities, I can't see him returning to frontline royal duties."
Arbiter said he believes Prince Andrew has three options left going forward.
Option one is that the case goes ahead as recently decided by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan.
Prince Andrew's second option "is to ignore it completely".
The third option is for the prince to negotiate an out of court settlement, Arbiter said.
"Whether Virginia Giuffre wants to do that, that remains to be seen. So he's got three options and none of which will please him very much," Arbiter said.
The royal commentator said he believes the "million-dollar question" now is whether the Queen will put her hand in her own pocket to help her son.
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"At the end of the day he is her son and she'll have nothing done against her children, she won't have anybody criticise them, beyond the family criticising her children," Arbiter said.
"It's conceivable that she could help."
Arbiter said he believes the prince may end up having to sell his chalet in the Swiss alps ski resort town of Verbier to pay for the lawsuit because it's going to become a "big financial burden".
He believes the prince's options will be something those inside the royal family will now be discussing.
The royal commentator said the "side show" that is occurring as a result of the allegations has become a distraction for the royal family, particularly in the lead up to the Queen's 2022 platinum jubilee.
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"It's a distraction we could do without and … nothing's going to happen in terms of the case, should it come up, until the autumn – sort of September, October, November – but there'll be a lot of questions, there'll be a lot of depositions between now and then," Arbiter said.
He said the lawsuit will have more of a personal impact on Prince Andrew than on the Queen and that "the institution of the royal family is very strong".
He said the royal family has "been through all sorts of upheavals in its thousand-year history" and "it evolves on a constant basis".
Arbiter said he didn't believe the lawsuit "will have any lasting impact" on the rest of the family.
However, when it comes to Prince Andrew, the royal commentator said, "mud sticks".
"This has been going on for two years now and before it's all over it probably will be another year that will go by," he said.
"I don't see him returning. I don't believe anybody will really want him. His charities won't want him, the military certainly won't want him, so what is there left for him to do? Not a lot."
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