Prince Andrew, Duke of York.
Prince Andrew has been relieved of his royal duties after a disastrous BBC interview concerning the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Yahoo News. After the interview the Queen summoned Prince Andrew and informed him that he would have to step down from his royal duties and forfeit his £249,000 a year salary. The Prince is now facing calls to cooperate with US investigators and he has said he will do so. Prince Andrew was criticized for his lack of empathy for the victims in the interview and continuing to be friends with Jeffrey Epstein even after he had been convicted of sex trafficking. Prince Andrew also denied claims that he had sex with Virginia Guiffre née Roberts while she was underage.
My Comment:
I haven't had a chance to watch the above interview in full, but what little I have seen explains why Prince Andrew was stepping down. His denials concerning Virginia Guiffre were unbelievable to say the least. Instead of denying he had sex with her he said he had no memory of her and that he was at a pizza place instead. He also said that the photo with him had to be fake because, as a royal, he doesn't let people touch him. He came off as a liar who had a lot to hide.
However, I am not sure if that alone explains why the Prince was fired. I think the BBC interview was an attempt to get in front of any new revelations. It failed miserably but I think those revelations are coming regardless. And they are probably the real reason he was fired.
I do have to say that I am glad that Prince Andrew is facing some repercussions for this. Even though I believe that Epstein was a spook working a blackmail scheme for an intelligence agency, he's still responsible for having sex with at least one underage girl who had been a victim of human trafficking. He is responsible for that and this firing should just be the beginning of his punishment.
I think that there is a good chance of the Prince being arrested if he ever comes back to the United States as anything other than a cooperating witness. Other than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's girlfriend and pimp, who is now on the run, Prince Andrew is the biggest name that's out there in the scandal.
I think there is a case to be made for him testifying. Maxwell should be brought to justice and Prince Andrew could help convict her or force her to cooperate as well. Doing so would probably help bring in a lot more people as I bet Prince Andrew knows a lot about what was going and Maxwell knows everything.
On the other hand, I would love to see Prince Andrew in an American prison. I, like most people, am tired of the elite getting away with their crimes. Though getting fired is a huge embarrassment and a major loss of face, that's all it is. It's not justice, it's a joke and he should serve prison time.
I would say that this is the largest scandal for the Royal Family since the death of Princess Diana. Prince Andrew sure looks guilty as hell of having sex with a girl that was underage and a victim of human trafficking. And he is a centerpiece of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, which is one of the most notorious events in recent American history.
Lost in all of this is that Prince Andrew was almost certainly compromised. Though it's unclear who was running it, Epstein was running a blackmail scheme. Given that Prince Andrew was a powerful royal, that means that the British Government itself may have been subverted by a blackmail operation. If they were lucky, the blackmail was just for money and not for influence.
Either way, it's good to see some fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein case. Again, I have to give credit for Project Veritas for bringing the story back to the limelight. I am not sure the Prince Andrew interview happens without the ABC News video leak. I sincerely hope that the major players in the Epstein scandal end up facing justice.
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