Steph McGovern left fans of her Channel 4 show Steph's Packed Lunch stunned on Wednesday (February 16), as she admitted she "doesn't care" about the Queen's upcoming Platinum Jubilee.

Steph was chatting to her gathered guests about Prince Andrew's recent legal battle, which saw him settle out of court with Virginia Giuffre in a civil sexual assault case.

The Duke of York admitted Ms Giuffre had suffered as a victim of abuse – though he made no admission of liability and has always denied the allegations.

Steph said: "Obviously he denies all the allegations, but you think he did it for the Queen?"

"I think so, from what you said – and that's very well put, 'death by a thousand cuts'. It's her big year and this would have been story after headline after front page and, you know, he's already besmirched the whole thing.

"I don't think he'll go back to any kind of public role. I don't think anyone would want him to."

Steph later asked her gathered lunch mates: "Do you care? Because there's a lot of talk about this overshadowing the Jubilee.

"Personally, I don't care about that. Do you care?"

And one guest, Sarah, replied: "No, I don't care. I think he's a completely separate entity. I think we've dissociated him from the main part of the Royal Family anyway."

Another guest, Dixie, brought up the issue of who would be paying for the legal settlement, as he said: "If we found out later that the taxpayer is somehow involved in paying, but those facts may never come out."

Steph responded: "What we understand is that it's coming from the Queen's personal money, which isn't money given to her by the state."

As Dixie said: "I still want to support the Queen, I want to go and wave my flag, but it's making me think twice about it. This was always going to be the case with a civil settlement, that we don't know the details and will continue to ask questions."

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