Crowds pushed a young man to the ground and were dragged by police, after he harassed Prince Andrew while walking the body of Queen Elizabeth on Edinburgh’s Green Mile Street.
As the procession passed, in which the prince was walking, shouted young Among the crowd saying, “Andrew, you are a sick old man.”
Somebody yells out, “Andrew, you’re a sick old man” to Prince Andrew, who is walking behind Queen Elizabeth’s coffin pic.twitter.com/M6DsyuPLXR
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 12, 2022
clips showed video Eyewitnesses posted it on social media that the young man was pushed by people who were offended by his screaming to fall to the ground.
During the passage of the coffin procession #Queen_Elizabeth in Edinburgh in #Scotlandmembers of the crowd overpowered a man, who seemed to be bothering Prince Andrew.
Video footage showed people insulted by his shouting, “Andrew, you’re a sick old man,” before he was thrown to the ground, after which a police officer intervened and removed him.#watch_free #truth_first pic.twitter.com/AkVkPyxy59– Alhurra Channel (@alhurranews) September 12, 2022
A police officer took the young man with him away from the convoy, while he shouted again: “Disgusting!”
The procession was relatively calm, with music playing Scottish bagpipes, while crowds lined up to pay their respects to their late queen.
King Charles III was accompanied by his brothers Andrew, Edward and Anne with the procession.
Since Sunday, tens of thousands of people have waited for hours to be in the front lines and give a last farewell, if only for a second, at the oak casket aboard a car at the funeral procession.
After being kept for 24 hours, the body will be transferred, on Tuesday evening, by air from Edinburgh Airport on a royal plane to London. The coffin will be draped in the royal flag around the clock on a platform at the Palace of Westminster from Wednesday evening for five days.
Prince Andrew will not be allowed to wear his uniform, due to his exclusion from the monarchy following accusations of sexual assault, which he ended with a payment of millions of dollars.
And at the beginning of this September, the sexual assault lawsuit brought by American Virginia Joffrey in New York against British Prince Andrew was officially dropped.
Last February, the two parties made an agreement by mutual consent that the second son of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II would pay Joffrey a sum of money whose value was not disclosed, in order to avoid public embarrassment that could have caused him the trial in this case.
Geoffrey had confirmed that Prince Andrew had a sexual relationship with her when she was seventeen, i.e. a minor under American law, after they became acquainted with the late businessman, Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in his prison in New York in 2019, before his trial for sexual crimes began.
No criminal charges have been brought against Prince Andrew, 61, who has consistently denied the charges.
Last January, Prince Andrew was stripped of his military titles and roles in sponsoring associations.
Prince Andrew has withdrawn from public life since his disastrous interview with the BBC in the fall of 2019, claiming he does not remember meeting Joffrey and defending his friendship with Epstein.