Fears for King Charles have been aired ahead of explosive claims about Prince Andrew coming to light in the late Virginia Giuffre's upcoming book. The posthumous autobiography reportedly claims that Prince Andrew felt "entitled" and believed that sleeping with Virginia was his "birthright".
The Jeffrey Epstein victim tragically died aged 41 in April, however her book is set to be released later this month. She is said to detail the three occasions when she was allegedly trafficked to have sex with disgraced duke Prince Andrew - which he has denied.
Speaking on This Morning, Nick Ferrari said: "I read a lot of this morning and I won't share some of it with your viewers because it's highly inappropriate. What actually happened between the two is only known to two people and one of them sadly is now dead, so it's only known one person.
"But I want to take this conversation in a slightly different way and I want to take it to the King. The book is scheduled to publication next week, already some excerpts have been seen, and it will plunge the crown in crisis yet again."
He added that King Charles has been "battling a fairly serious health condition" and has other worries within his family. "He's got the issues with his younger son Prince Harry and we wish that a successful conclusion but there does seem to be a war of words.
"We see there were certain allegations made overnight by his daughter-in-law Meghan Markle. No one knows the veracity of that, whether they were frozen out but at the very heart of it and tracking back every single claim, every single story, every single negative headline is one man - King Charles."
It comes after Meghan said this week that she and Prince Harry had "no plan" when they first quit their royal roles except to "nest and heal". She told Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell: "You know, Archie was so little, and I had just got pregnant with Lili around that same time, so we were nesting – nesting and healing.
"And also, I don’t know, I had the bandwidth at that time to think about what the big picture dream was. There was no plan.
“It was just, let’s get through these next couple of years, create community, which was always so important to both of us in our new environment.”
Nick added on This Morning: "You would hope his family would be there to support him. Now, undoubtedly the Queen is and William and he seems to enjoy a very close relationship with Kate, which is great. But spare a thought for this man. He's tuned into public opinion."
Nick added that there will be "more pain" and "more damage limitation" for the Royal Family. "Tough times at the Palace," he said.
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