Saturday Night Live makes dig at Prince Andrew sexual assault allegations

Saturday Night time Reside didn’t maintain again making a dig at Prince Andrew on Saturday evening, following the Duke of York deleting his Twitter account.

The royal deleted his profile on the social community simply days after the Queen stripped him of his honorary army roles and he stopped utilizing his HRH fashion.

SNL poked enjoyable at Prince Andrew throughout its Weekend Replace phase, with comic Colin Jost additionally alluding to allegations he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre when she was a young person.

‘This week, Britain’s most eligible bachelor, Prince Andrew, formally deleted his Twitter account… after he realised that was not the app with all of the dancing teenager,’ he joked.

It’s assumed that Colin was referring to TikTok, the wildly widespread video-focused social networking service with a variety of genres together with dance, pranks, stunts, and methods.

Prince Andrew is going through a civil sexual assault trial within the US.

Saturday Night time Reside’s Colin Jost poked enjoyable on the royal (Image: NBC)

Earlier this week, the British monarchy’s official web site swiftly up to date because the establishment seeks to distance itself from the Queen’s son.

Andrew nonetheless seems underneath the part ‘Members of the Royal Household’, however the listing of his now ex-military posts and patronages has been eliminated.

It additionally cites the current developments, with a press release studying: ‘In January 2022, Buckingham Palace made a press release asserting that, with The Queen’s approval and settlement, The Duke of York’s army affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to The Queen, and The Duke will proceed to not perform public duties.’

Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles (Image: AP)

Beneath the heading ‘Supporting the Queen’, Andrew’s official duties are listed previously tense, similar to attending Trooping the Color and his Diamond Jubilee tour to India on behalf of the monarch.

The web site states: ‘An necessary a part of The Duke of York’s function was to assist The Queen’s work as Head of State.’

Giuffre is suing the duke within the US for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was a young person.

She claims she was trafficked by the duke’s buddy, convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to have intercourse with Andrew when she was 17 and a minor underneath US regulation.

The duke has strenuously denied the allegations.