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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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acatcalledjohn · 17/11/2019 22:56

He doesn't remember having sex, but he remembers that he was at Pizza Express in Woking.

If there is one thing I remember about Pizza Express in Woking is that it isn't memorable.

Sewbean · 17/11/2019 23:02

He couldn't sweat at that time.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

lookatthebabypenguin · 17/11/2019 23:16

I have PTSD and I cannot believe I have been shelling out on unnecessary anti-perspirant like a mug. Why did nobody tell me?

Seriously though, I have been blown away by the man's arrogance. It's incredible.

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GunpowderGelatine · 17/11/2019 23:45

It sickens me that when asked if he regrets being the pedophiles friend he says "no" because of the "connections" he made from it he wouldn't have otherwise made Hmm so you're telling me it's hard for the Prince of England to have one of his people pick up a phone a get a meeting with someone from Wall Street or a director of a charity 🤔

JasonPollack · 17/11/2019 23:45

Am I mistaken in saying, that his denial of
the photo, was that it was taken upstairs in Ghislanes house- a place he has never been?

How the fuck does he know where it was taken then...

escapade1234 · 18/11/2019 00:10

Can someone explain to me whether he committed a crime by having sex with a 17 year old?

Is it that he knew she was a prostitute? Or that he knew she was being held against her will?

Why do the FBI want to speak to him? Is it to support Virginia Robert’s case against the estate of Epstein? Or because they think he’s committed a crime? Genuinely trying to find out.

Is she suing the estate for money? Or suing Prince Andrew for rape?

NewtonPulsifer · 18/11/2019 00:40

Are there any online petitions around to get his title removed and to stop him from representing the U.K. on official occasions? Might not be as simple as a petition but I bet loads would sign.

KnowMenClature · 18/11/2019 00:55

He has proven inability to conduct himself in a manner appropriate to such a high profile role as british envoy to overseas business and trade.

A lot of what I've read embroils him thick in huge business dealings with this convicted peado, and other unsavoury and underhand financials, that SF is also party to.

I think he's in thick and trying to cover up hugely.

Its really hard to actually believe what he's said. Any of it, and the bits he can't wriggle out of, all he's done is implicate himself by his lack of immediate disentanglement.

I mean, he couldn't make phone calls and risk being tapped, so risking being photographed together was the safer option than trusting to open wide technology that would have proven dealings and culpability. They had a lot to disentangle, and if the meetings had been private that would have looked more suspicious.

Although what could be more suspicious than staying with a convicted paedo in the full knowledge of that.

Of course all the witness statements attesting to his receiving messages in various states of undress are all lies. Yes they are

KnowMenClature · 18/11/2019 00:56

*massages obvs

The foot ones that him and SF are so into

Miljea · 18/11/2019 00:57

escapade, me too. What's the charge?

doritosdip · 18/11/2019 00:58

Want to know how and why Ghislaine Maxwell seems to have slipped off the radar

This is my theory based on watching too many tv programmes and films but I'd guess that she's in a country that doesn't extradite people.

doritosdip · 18/11/2019 01:00

Or she's negotiating a deal to minimise her jail time.

KnowMenClature · 18/11/2019 01:06

GM was working for him too, and will have charges to answer, but she was not raping girls, or using them herself for her own sexual pleasure.

She was employed and kept to supply for men.

I do recall some years ago now, a lengthy documentary which showed a lot more and talked about her involvement a lot more, unless I am misremembering (I'm a woman, so passive and can't therefore possibly even remember who I've had sex with).

JasonPollack · 18/11/2019 01:07

How much do we pay for this sleazy prick?

sashh · 18/11/2019 04:31

I would love to know motivation too. I think the simplest explanation is pure arrogance tbh

I think he is actually enjoying being in the lime light, he is too thick to realise all publicity is not good publicity when it comes to trafficking girls for sex.

Can someone explain to me whether he committed a crime by having sex with a 17 year old?

It is illegal to have sex with someone under 18 if you are paying for it, in English law the term 'child prostitute' has been replaced with,' substitute “sexual exploitation of a child”.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/section/68/enacted

So if Virginia RG was being paid, in money or in kind or even just promised something for having sex with PA then PA committed a serious crime.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 18/11/2019 05:35

Virginia Roberts was also trafficked (to be JE’s sex slave)
Also she had sex with PA in Florida where the age of consent is 18 and she was 17, so that’s statutory rape.

Prince Andrew is now wanted for questioning in the US and France, so they are 2 countries he can never travel to again.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 18/11/2019 05:39

How much do we pay for this sleazy prick?
Technically his mother gives him an allowance from the sovereign grant which is taxpayer funded.
Cost of his security detail, a free house, Royal lodge at Windsor, also an apartment at Buckingham palace.

StartupRepair · 18/11/2019 05:55

I think we should Petition the charities he is patron of, asking them to ditch him.

fuzzymoon · 18/11/2019 05:59

In the photo it looks like to me that he is wearing suit trousers and a formal shirt that has cuff links. He looks like he's just taken his tie And jacket off. To me it's not casual wear.

Leflic · 18/11/2019 06:10

He’s wearing the same clothes in the photo with his arm round Victoria and the one coming out from China White nightclub.

Brown76 · 18/11/2019 06:21

Let's assume the photo is genuine but he never had sex with Roberts or anyone else trafficked by Epstein.

He's still behaved bizarrely. He claims he barely knew Epstein and he was more of a friend of a friend, yet after he was convicted he actively sought him out and stayed with him for days on end. He wasn't disgusted with his human trafficking for prostitution. He also claimed to have been going to see him because of his interesting and useful contacts, but surely as part of his royal role he could have had dinner with anyone he liked and must have had access to academics and businesspeople at the highest level? It just doesn't make sense unless he was getting access to women and wanted to talk to Epstein privately to find out what the authorities knew about him.

JoObrien7 · 18/11/2019 06:33

So obvious he was lying about this. He kept blinking rapidly when answering questions which in body language means lying. He also showed no sympathy for the women who have been abused and didn't mention them. I can remember when he was called randy Andy by the press and they had good reason to do so. He did this interview against the advice of the palace which shows exactly how arrogant he is ... some of the royals think they are so important because that is what they have been told since they were small children. I believe he should go to the US and give a truthful statement but he won't do that. Also he is the Queen's favorite child so she won't see he has done anything wrong at all.

sashh · 18/11/2019 06:55

Oh and apparently the private jet was nicknamed 'the lolita express'.

JoObrien7 · 18/11/2019 07:17

Well he has opened the door to the press now by doing this intereview

I just read this in the DM

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7695233/Videos-Prince-Andrew-partying-nightclubs-beautiful-young-women-French-Riviera.html

MissEliza · 18/11/2019 07:20

I agree with Brown76. Also I think the idea of petitioning his charities to get them to ditch him is excellent.