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Prince Andrew Part 2

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SunsetBoulevard3 · 19/11/2019 15:59

Here is another thread to discuss the PA interview and its repercussions.

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SirHumphreyDrinkalot · 21/11/2019 06:34

Can you go into greater detail @something2say?

Am I going to win the Euromillions on Friday?

Roussette · 21/11/2019 07:11

NaomiFromMilkShake
Michael Spicer is my most favourite person on Twitter. His videos of famous people, and being the voice in the ear, are absolutely legend. Best are of BoJo.

As far as Andrew, all I can say is GOOD. I've read different reports everywhere. So say the Queen is furious, as is Charles. I think up until now, their 'advisers' particularly the Press ones have just been sycophant.

All illustrated by the fact his Press Officer walked out of the job over this. Up until now, the RF have felt untouchable. Not any more in this social media world.

I feel a bit sorry for the daughters. Not Fergie though, her pathetic response to his Newsnight interview... well, you'll need the sick bucket. Here it is. Brace yourself.

I am deeply supportive and proud of this giant of a princpled man, who dares to put his shoulder to the wind and stands firm with his sense of honour and truth

And there's more... yuk. If I hear one more time how wonderful they are at joint parenting, I might scream. Millions of people all over the country do this day in day out without telling everyone.

She'll support him whatever he does as he's her meal ticket. They are both revolting.

Prince Andrew Part 2
Rosielily · 21/11/2019 07:50

Just reading @Roussette's screenshot:

"We are the best example of joint parenting....."

Of course they are Confused

Someone should gag Fergie's social media habit. Seriously.

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CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/11/2019 08:56

The York princesses are adult women in their 30s; married or soon to be.
She should stop harping on about the parenting. Surely that job was finished well over a decade ago.

JaimeBronde · 21/11/2019 09:04

One half of me thinks Diana was a tragic accident. The other half of me thinks her 'tragic accident' was conveniently arranged by arms dealers who were going to lose billions of dollars on the back of Diana's anti landmine campaign.
(Plus I don't think Diana was meant to have died, just seriously injured as a warning)

Back to Andrew, there is only one way he could rescue his reputation (not that he has much of one to rescue) & that's by telling the FBI, French Law Enforcement etc everything he knows.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 21/11/2019 09:12

@JaimeBronde

That could well lead to another «accident»
I think Andrew is being retired, not only to protect the RF but himself.

Dowser · 21/11/2019 09:13

Agree Prosecco
They think it’s all over..well it is now.

This won’t be put to bed. Much as they’d like it too.
It’s too big and too far reaching.
Who are bigger than the puppets?
The people that really control the world.
That’s who.

Elodie2019 · 21/11/2019 09:15

Ugh! That response from Fergie! She is a snake!
She tried to sell dirt on him to the highest bidder a few years ago for cash (returned cash and snivelled a lot in remorse when she was found out)

noodlenosefraggle · 21/11/2019 09:31

I feel sorry for Beatrice that her wedding will be overshadowed by this. At least she wont have to suffer the embarrassment of having her dad hawk her wedding around disinterested news networks!

Puzzledandpissedoff · 21/11/2019 09:35

So say the Queen is furious, as is Charles. I think up until now, their 'advisers' particularly the Press ones have just been sycophant

But is it fair to blame advisers for taking the attitude expected? Even they need money to live on, and while some seem to leave when they can stand no more, the ones who stay are hardly going to risk comments which could see them instantly out of a job

And far from being "furious", it may be that the Queen and Charles are merely hacked off that the plebs have had the temerity to expect something more than they're prepared to give

Rosielily · 21/11/2019 09:51

I wonder what PA's relationship with his daughters will be like, going forward. They're young women now. PA might well become a grandfather soon....... The repercussions from this are never ending.

QueenOfTheAndals · 21/11/2019 09:55

I think Fergie's post came before the interview aired, rather than after, but I'm sure she wasn't ignorant of the content of the interview.

AnyMinuteNow · 21/11/2019 10:00

@Elodie2019

What dirt are you referring to fergie trying to sell to the highest bidder.

I thought she tried to sell access to PA, which would advance someone's status and propsects potentially.

Were you talking about something else?

Dowser · 21/11/2019 10:07

Agree any minute now
There was the fake sheik scandal ...she was selling access to him to the highest bidder
She’s not going to throw him under a bus..I think she lived rather well off the coattails of the RF

LarkDescending · 21/11/2019 10:08

It was Andrew hawking Eugenie’s wedding coverage, I think.

Two new snippets today:

The Panorama programme covering Virginia Giuffre’s allegations is to be broadcast sooner than planned, probably in early December.

According to this BBC piece, they understand that Prince Andrew will no longer be supported by the Queen out of the Sovereign Grant.

AnyMinuteNow · 21/11/2019 10:11

How is hawking euginies wedding coverage trying to sell dirt on him Confused

LarkDescending · 21/11/2019 10:14

Oh it isn’t. Sorry. Hawking weddings and hawking dirt both coming up on the thread!

AnyMinuteNow · 21/11/2019 10:18

How tragic that VG is still being let down, adter having already done a panorama interview, that AP got in first (according to the mirrror article, if its to be believed)

It could be absolutely the reason ap did a televised interview in an attempt to manipulate the public before the victims voice was heard.

AnyMinuteNow · 21/11/2019 10:20

Oh, yours wasn't in response to the selling dirt claim Lark ?

Ah ok Smile i see

RhinoskinhaveI · 21/11/2019 10:21

That response from Fergie is just a joke, they are just a pair of incompetent grifters

LarkDescending · 21/11/2019 10:22

Well the BBC’s position is that it gives VG the opportunity to respond to everything he said in her interview. The other way round, he’d have had the chance to comment on her interview and she wouldn’t have any comeback.

Having the last word is generally regarded as an advantage.

CathyorClaire · 21/11/2019 10:33

Mummy may no longer be subbing him directly but I doubt his lifestyle will change substantially. He'll still have his pick of taxpayer funded palaces to lay low in.

Roussette · 21/11/2019 10:35

But is it fair to blame advisers for taking the attitude expected? No, no, I don't blame them, they certainly know what they're getting in to. But until the RF accept things have to change, there will always be sycophants agreeing with everything 'The firm' says.

I believe Sarah's nauseating statement came in as the interview was going out. She obviously knew the content and as always she stands by her meal ticket ex husband.

She was mired in 'cash for access' to PA. I remember the footage. It was awful. She was saying how beneficial it would be to be introduced to PA, all while expecting hundreds of thousands from the fake sheikh.

annielouise · 21/11/2019 10:36

I think the queen needs to shoulder some of the blame for this situation. She doesn't seem to have any control. She's quite happy for her offspring to do whatever they like and only now when people complain in large numbers does she do anything! She could have curbed his behaviour years ago - and should have. I think she's as entitled and arrogant as the rest of them.

They appear astounded that we, the public, are not willing to take any old crap off them, turn a blind eye, as in the days of yore when people were subjects without a voice or the 'audacity' to question anything. These people are very slow on the uptake, as seen when Diana died and the public feeling then.

Charles seems to have wised up in recent years - but then he had a reason to; i.e. his job depends on the good will of the people otherwise he won't land the post he's waited 70 years for or he'll go down in history as 'Charles the whiner' or 'Charles the po-faced'. I think this must be a big thing for them to be judged in a good light in history.

NormaBean · 21/11/2019 10:43

I predict a 'minor heart attack' for PA in the near future with him being advised by his doctors to not put himself in stressful environments and therefore unable to be questioned by police

And then he’ll get back with Fergie and retreat from the limelight. Years later he’ll appear as the model family man.

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