Despite his villainous behaviour, anyone feel a teeny bit sorry for Andrew?

Broken because he got caught. Ffs.

Who cares about Starmer? Hes as dodgy as they come. Only cares about himself.

Yes, he has been arrested now. The worst possible timing for Starmer, with an important by-election this week.

I think he has been now.

I feel sorry for him because he is a human being, just as I feel sorry for the Epstein victims.

I am confused that Mandelson (sp) hasn't been arrested, and yet his story came out first.

There is evidence of Andrew sexually abusing children in the Epstein’s files? Are you sure? Why isn’t this being reported by the media?

I think you need to put your mind to reading some court papers perhaps because that is not true.

I’m annoyed he is the only fall guy -the girls must have tsken the money rather than seeking nustice

It seems highly likely (otherwise why was she paid off with hush money) that Andrew had sex with Virginia Guthrie when she was aged 17 and he was aged 41. This was a criminal offence in the US at the time where the age of consent was 18 and she was classed as a child.

There is no evidence in the files that Andrew had sex with anyone else under the age of 18 or 16, unless you would like to provide links as evidence.

If AMW really isn’t guilty of any wrongdoing, as he insists, why won’t he give evidence to Congress? He could reveal the names of those powerful men who are currently still walking free in the US.

No empathy for the victims. Whether he’s guilty of SA of the underage victims of Epstein, he clearly doesn’t care about them at all. It’s all about him.

Good grief, no! He's an unbelievably privileged grown adult who is fully responsible for everything he's done. I'll save my compassion for his victims. As an aside, I've noticed a flood of blue-tick accounts on twitter trying to defend him there too.

Unfortunately there is evidence in the Epstein files

Yes, Andrew is almost certainly guilty of having sex with trafficked women - but that is not the same as saying he sexually abused children.

I like Gordon Brown, and better late than never, I suppose, but I don't understand why he didn't do this at the time. If anyone could have, he could, surely?

Reports in the news over the weekend of former prime minister Gordon Brown passing information to various police forces, suggesting that AMW used military air bases to facilitate Epstein’s private jet, and appropriated military aircraft to meet Epstein. All at the tax payers expense. If it’s true, the entitlement is off the scale.

Information coming out of the Epstein files describes youngsters of both sexes - some as young as 14 - being trafficked. In Florida in 2008, Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting. When he died in prison in 2019, he was awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors.

Regardless of whether he had sex with minors, if Andrew had sex with girls who were trafficked then he himself is guilty of trafficking. That’s the law - and according to the king himself, no-one is above it.

Well judging by what’s happening now, she had reason didn’t she ? If the favouritism including indulging his outrageous sense of entitlement then they’re all responsible.

The RF have effectively hung Andrew out to dry and backed away from him. I understand that that is to protect their reputation but you have to wonder to what extent they knew about the stuff that’s being uncovered now.

Absolutely not with my siblings. Quite the.opposite in fact!

Wrt his being the Queen's favourite child, isn't it often the case that the supposed favourite child position is given to the child the mother is most worried about?

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I dont have any strong feelings about him. Most people in his position accused of a serious crime would be genuinely worried about their future. Yes he is going to be a social pariah. However he is not going to find himself homeless and having to use a food bank. His brother the king will always provide for him, if only in a minimal way. Most people who break the law suffer huge material loss.

The flag waving, bowing and genuflecting proles who toady around the royals have given them the impression that being royal is equivalent to being a god.
The proles upheld and enabled the system that created the monster.

I do feel that the outrage rings a bit hollow when you consider the countless men - the 'ordinary' sons, husbands, boyfriends - who use prostitutes, at home and abroad, the stag dos where men pick up sex workers, the sex tourism in Germany, Amsterdam, the far east, red light districts here, the calls in the UK for the legalisation of brothels. Many of those women and girls will have been trafficked, are abuse victims, are addicts funding their habits. There's a widespread culture of male sexual entitlement and exploitation that doesn't begin and end with a monstrous sex ring run by a billionaire financier for the benefit of his rich famous friends. So I would never excuse or feel any pity for Andrew, but I do see his behaviour as part of a larger pattern.

Did Andrew abuse children? I know he had sex with trafficked women, but children? Where is the evidence of this?

She was a girl when she was abused by him and others.