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Prince Andrew

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SunsetBoulevard3 · 16/11/2019 00:07

I haven’t watched the interview, but heard reports of the content. I just find it unbelievable he claims he can’t remember meeting a woman he had his arm around! Despicable. Does anyone believe him?

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Happysummer2020 · 16/11/2019 22:00

'Unbecoming'

'Unbecoming? He was a sex offender'

Ffs. Its enlightening. He has a disgusting attitude and I'm not buying his victim act.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 16/11/2019 22:00

I really feel for the Queen after watching that.
She won’t throw her own son under the bus, but he has serious questions to answer.
Well done Emily on her questions.

Bluntness100 · 16/11/2019 22:00

Ghislaine Maxwell sounds like she more or less acted as a pimp for Epstein so why is Andrew so keen to hold on to her friendship?

Because she's the lesser of the two evils.

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Snoodleberry · 16/11/2019 22:00

“Unbecoming? He was a sex offender!” a brilliant line!

NumbersStation · 16/11/2019 22:01

In my very humble opinion, he’d have been better off giving a statement to the polis on both sides of the pond rather than this.

This was ill advised.

The queen’s hair will have spat out her curlers involuntarily.

LarkDescending · 16/11/2019 22:02

I thought Emily did an excellent interview. Not aggressive, lulled him into a false sense of security, gave him a big shovel and let him keep digging.

minou123 · 16/11/2019 22:03

That was just a pr exercise, and one that will back fire.

I fully agree Bluntness100.
The press will be straight on this.
He claimed he always wore a suit and tie when out in London. Guarantee there will be photos of him in a shirt and jeans.
Claimed he couldnt sweat because of medication,. Guarantee there will be photos showing him sweating whilst he was on the medication

Etc

merrymouse · 16/11/2019 22:03

Cant the visit to Pizza Xpress be confirmed and also his passport would show where and when he travelled.

Surely his 'staff' would be able to confirm what he was doing.

viques · 16/11/2019 22:04

So let's count the get out of jail cards he has played so far

Diplomat
War hero
Family man
Member of RF
Man of the people
Charity worker
Hard workerfor the country
Friend to reputable respectable people
Honerable friend even when friends have been convicted of quite bad things
Anxiety for mental health

Anyone would think he had had advisors making a tick sheet for him.

He only missed off animal lover, blood donor, washer of leprous feet,volunteer at homeless shelter.

Actually, will have to take animal lover off the list because it wasn't a PARTY, it was a shooting weekend........

insanecandycorn · 16/11/2019 22:04

@CurlyWurlyTwirly
Yes he really was panicking.

He's not sure if he can give a statement as he is bound by his lawyers. Bound by what exactly..? Bound by his need to protect his own interests.

floraloctopus · 16/11/2019 22:05

Probably one of many.....if you see women as a commodity then one is presumably much the same as another.

MadnessInMethod · 16/11/2019 22:06

I just had a news alert from Sky News

"Prince Andrew denies having sex with a 17 year old - I went to Pizza Express that day"

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Etinox · 16/11/2019 22:07

Yuck. Just caught up on this by accident as I was trying to watch he news.
Poor Emily needed a bath afterwards.
🤮

ssd · 16/11/2019 22:07

So he remembered a night in pizza express but can't remember sex with a 17 Yr old blonde.

Fucking unreal.

floraloctopus · 16/11/2019 22:07

It must have been one hell of a good pizza, though I suppose if a man is sexually inadequate then he may well remember a pizza more than the sex.

Bluntness100 · 16/11/2019 22:07

I thought it was a terrible interview. She asked the questions, didn't follow up, gave him his platform to deny it and drip in how he's royal, navy, nspcc, ambassador etc.

She could have got some hard hitting questions in there, and she just let it go. Clearly given instructions on how she was to handle it. Ie not give him a hard time or he'd end the interview.

minou123 · 16/11/2019 22:10

I do agree with you Bluntness100. But I did like the way she made him repeat his denials/confirm what he was doing. Just so in the future he cant say "oh, I didnt mean that".

viques · 16/11/2019 22:11

larkdescending

I agree, if they had sent in a hard man he would have been on the defensive, but she kept picking away at the scabs, was polite but not deferential and was a bloody woman . I think it really threw him, it was clear she didn't believe a lot of his answers and I doubt if anyone has ever let him see that before. I wouldn't want to be on his staff for the next few weeks, I would be locking up the throwing knives.......

LarkDescending · 16/11/2019 22:11

She got out of it what she wanted as a journalist - a scoop. This interview won’t be forgotten any time soon (I suspect it will haunt Andrew for some time to come).

PeterRouseTheFleshofMankind · 16/11/2019 22:11

Emily's face at 'Unbecoming? He was a sex offender' was the absolute best.

What an absolutely vile creature he is.

MyGoodTimes · 16/11/2019 22:11

"I don't sweat" 😂 I bet he's sweating now digging that big hole for himself
Oh look, Prince Andrew's pants is on fire. Someone call the fire brigade.

ssd · 16/11/2019 22:12

Oh come on, he probably wrote the fucking questions

RhinoskinhaveI · 16/11/2019 22:12

'unbecoming'???
as if not getting involved with pedophilia and sex trafficking are exceptionally high standards of behaviour to which Royals should adhere.
These things are reviled by decent people in all strata of society, he speaks as if he used the wrong fucking spoon for the soup ffs.
In his mind the only 'wrong' thing is 'ooopise I've embarrassed mumsy'

EleanorReally · 16/11/2019 22:12

he is accused of non consensual sex with a 17 year old.
i wonder why, if he did have sex with her, he should have said, yes, it was consensual

RockysMa · 16/11/2019 22:13

He actually described the actions of a paedophile as 'unbecoming'. For fucks sake what planet is he on

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