Lorraine Kelly was embroiled in a heated debated with Prince Andrew's ex-girlfriend Lady Victoria Hervey as she defended the royal.
The socialite appeared on Lorraine this morning to talk about Ghillaine Maxwell who has spoken out from her prison cell.
Lady Victoria and Lorraine Kelly appeared to get in a feisty debate as they spoke about a recent interview of Ghillaine's on Talk TV, where she launched a full frontal attack on Prince Andrew’s sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre's refuting her account of events.
According to reports, Prince Andrew has amassed a £10million 'war chest' to launch a legal case against Ms Giuffre.
Ms Giuffre brought a civil case alleging Andrew had sex with her on three occasions in 2001 when she was 17 years old.
Prince Andrew has always denied the allegations but settled a US civil sex abuse case with Ms Giuffre outside of court for a reported £12million. The settlement is not an admission of guilt by Andrew, who continues to deny any wrongdoing.
The royal now allegedly wants to 'clear his name' after previously being “pressured” into settling the case to avoid overshadowing the Platinum Jubilee.
His ex-partner Lady Victoria Hervery joined Lorraine to talk about it, but the pair seemed to have differing opinions.
Lorraine said: "So he has always denied it, all these allegations, so why on earth did he pay her off? Why do you think he paid her off?"
She said: "In my opinion, from what I know, he didn't have a choice, he was forced to not.. He basically didn't get his day in court and was not allowed to fight.
Lorraine asked: "Who would have forced him though? For someone like him, from what we know of his character, who would have actually had the power to say to him, 'you're not doing this'".
And she replied: "Well who do you think?
Lorraine shrugged: "Well I don't know?"
Victoria said: "Buckingham Palace."
Lorraine replied: "Yeah? You think?"
And Victoria said: "I do. I think it was Buckingham Palace that put the pressure on him and he basically wasn't allowed to fight it.
Lorraine then put it to Lady Victoria that Prince Andrew would surely know the consequences of his actions of settling.
Lady Victoria replied: "Actually, I think the titles were supposed to be given back to him, they were never officially going to be taken away, they were only going to be briefly taken away whilst it was going to be fought, when he was going to be a private citizen in court.
Lorraine said: "At the end of the day, he paid money to make this go away."
Lady Hervey replied: "At the end of the day he says he's never met her and he's always stood by that, even when they did settle, he didn't apologise, why would he apologise?
Lorraine replied: "That's the bizarre thing though and you must admit he made a massive colossal error by doing that interview and the way he came across in that interview, is that the man you know?"
"Well He is not media trained, this is the problem."
And Lorraine hit back: "But he's been doing that job for years, he should by now? You don't need to be media trained to sit and have empathy with people who have went through a terrible, terrible ordeal. There was no empathy, there was no 'I'm sorry for the victims of this man'..."
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