The news came shortly after Buckingham Palace announced the coronation weekend in May will include a star-studded concert at Windsor Castle to be broadcast live by the BBC, along with multiple community and service-based initiatives.

"I have a hard time believing anything about support from the top for Andrew rebuilding his reputation and public life," royal expert Shannon Felton Spence told Fox News Digital.

Though Andrew, 62, has denied wrongdoing, he agreed to an out-of-court settlement paid to the American woman in February 2022 amid pressure from Buckingham Palace that damaging headlines were distracting from the queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The Telegraph reported that Andrew consulted with his attorneys after Giuffre dropped a separate sexual abuse lawsuit against American lawyer Alan Dershowitz in November.

"But there was a test of how the public would receive Prince Andrew at Christmas when he joined the family for their traditional walk to the church at Sandringham," Fordwich pointed out.

Virginia Giuffre holds a photo of herself at age 16, when she said Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein began abusing her sexually.