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To support the Duke of York

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LadyLanka · 16/11/2019 21:42

Just that.
Although he is being asked the wrong questions.

OP posts:
rrg1 · 17/11/2019 08:13

Check out these:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPT_cCpNMvT73vjeimfkttju80FKKlH52

Lots of information not being shared by the mainstream media regarding the Epstein case

BillywilliamV · 17/11/2019 08:13

I stand corrected and apologise!

LotteLupin · 17/11/2019 08:15

I was joking. Of course it's a car crash situation. Of course he must have done it, and worse. And the interview is a singularly awful thing and unbelievably bad decision to do it. Yes, the arrogance is exhausting - to think that to give an interview where he just sits and denies even being able to sweat will make this go away.

The Pizza Express alibi is interesting. Presumably he wouldn't have said that unless there was some proof.

The whole Epstein story is deeply disturbing. I myself was a teenager in the US visiting in 1988 and was kind of groomed by a senator. The only thing that saved me was that as I was on antibiotics, I'd refused to drink. When I realised what he wanted, I left straight away - ran from a penthouse with an Evian-water jacuzzi out down into the posh car park and up the ramp out into the Washington night. That was scary in itself, but I was lucky to get a taxi and escape. I remember how angry he was, and how surprised.

I think, though, that Prince Andrew is being pursued as a high-profile figure, who brings extra publicity in the US by being Meghan's Uncle to boot. Whatever did happen with him, he wasn't running the operation. What I find extraordinary is that the ghastly Ghislaine has gone to ground, and nobody seems to be pursuing her. I feel the energy should be on her. And I'm surprised why the main victim is focusing on one of the many men who she encountered, rather than the woman who day to day abused, imprisoned, threatened and coerced her.

PositiveVibez · 17/11/2019 08:15

Of course he slept with that girl but she slept with him back

Oh my fucking god. Seriously?

I thought I was angry watchin that fake bastards interview lat night, but that's just made me feel even angrier.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 17/11/2019 08:18

He’s a piece of shit using his status as a Royal to avoid facing up to what he and others did. But yes, where is Ghislaine? She should be answering some questions too.

Tvstar · 17/11/2019 08:18

She does not look like a Trafficked sex slave in that picture!!

shoebedobedobedobedoo · 17/11/2019 08:23

She does not look like a Trafficked sex slave in that picture!!

Do explain what a trafficked sex slave looks like? Have you heard the term ‘grooming’??

Butchyrestingface · 17/11/2019 08:24

She does not look like a Trafficked sex slave in that picture!!

HRH Prince Andrew has joined the chat.

PositiveVibez · 17/11/2019 08:24

I am 100% sure that Epstein was guilty as charged, surely his suicide proves this?

Yes. He topped himself chinny reckon

She does not look like a Trafficked sex slave in that picture!!

What the actual fuck???!!!!!!

Did you expect her to have chains round her wrists and a sad look on her face with tears down her cheeks.

Are you that naïve??????? Really??????

LaurieMarlow · 17/11/2019 08:25

He receives no money from the public purse

Bollocks, he gets Crown Estate money

The young woman in the picture looks the picture of health and happiness, relaxed and beaming.

Fuck me, the morals of people on here are sickening. Do you know what sex trafficking is? A smile in a picture means nothing as you well know.

MarieG10 · 17/11/2019 08:25

@LadyLanka

I think it is perfectly possible that the Duke of York was unaware of the goings on

Andrew is accompanied everywhere by Royalty Protection officers. Do you really think that any member of the royal family who has protection isn't fully aware of anyone they are staying with? I note Emily Maitless didn't ask such an obvious question

The problem is Andrew is so unpleasant and arrogant he won't have taken their advice, as clearly he didn't about this utter car crash of an interview and it has bitten him

Sweetpea55 · 17/11/2019 08:25

I watched his eyes during the interview... Cold, hard, arrogant and no hint
of embarrassment or remorse.

Actionhasmagic · 17/11/2019 08:25

Get out

Bloodyinsomnia123 · 17/11/2019 08:25

"We need to start winding down the monarchy"

I've always been pretty much neutral/ uninterested either way on the subject of the monarchy but I'm coming round to the view that it needs to go.

  • First, people have been telling me for years that we need the monarch because they're an important check and balance built into the system to stop the government of the day abusing its powers. The whole row over proroguing parliament shot that argument down. I mean, both sides of that row were agreed that the Queen is just a (very expensive) rubber stamp.
  • Considering that she doesn't actually serve any useful function, it's even more obscene that, in practice, her wider family can basically do what the fuck they like without facing the consequences.
KaptainKaveman · 17/11/2019 08:29

Horrible man, entitled, spoiled and rather thick too.

JacquesHammer · 17/11/2019 08:29

She does not look like a Trafficked sex slave in that picture!!

Please do share what a victim of trafficking should look like.

Cam77 · 17/11/2019 08:30

Pick any family at random and then are probably more decent than the Windsors. Time to get rid. Have an elected ceremonial President like in Ireland who changes every 8 years or so. It's not rocket science.

FizzyIce · 17/11/2019 08:35

@Tvstar You’re either a troll or just a pretty awful and clueless person ..

doublebarrellednurse · 17/11/2019 08:35

I dispair at women blaming teenagers on this thread.

They don't "look" like sex slaves?

Next thing Epstein won't look like a pedophile. Honestly I think TV and a lack of critical thinking has a lot to answer for. Maybe that's why only 0.6 % of rape cases are convicted. They don't look like rapists 🤨

Andrew was a lying shit bag in that interview.

OP not all things require a devils advocate. We have a woefully inadequate justice system when it comes to sexual offences, grooming, trafficking and rich men (independently or combined) . It's well acknowledged.

What is there to debate? Whether he's guilty or not? People have given their opinion the debate just seems logically one sided. The opposition being provided by you and a handful of others lies in victim blaming and incredible / deliberate naivety it seems.

Butchyrestingface · 17/11/2019 08:40

Andrew was a lying shit bag in that interview.

I thought Maitlis herself looked like she thought so too. 😀

HotCrossPun1 · 17/11/2019 08:41

Even at a very generous stretch, if he really was unaware what Epstein was all about (unlikely) at first, why on earth would he continue to see him after he was convicted? And I don’t buy the laughable ‘too honourable’ explanation either 🙄. And the photo..if it’s a fake then why can’t he prove that it is? He must have access to the best people to find out, but nobody can.

Far from exonerating him, the interview has just had the opposite result.

cdtaylornats · 17/11/2019 08:42

So Vanya when a paedophile or rapists relatives say they didn't know you automatically disbelieve them.

Snog · 17/11/2019 08:46

We need to get rid of the Monarchy now

Roussette · 17/11/2019 08:47

People in this country hate and will always hate the royal family so you will have very few people on his side

That might apply to some people, but there are very many like me who have no beef with the Royal Family, I'm not anti Royalist BUT who find PA abhorrent and I would never be on his side because he knew what he was doing, he made choices to mix with a sex offender and now he's pulled up on it, he's trying to wriggle out of it.

I think, though, that Prince Andrew is being pursued as a high-profile figure, who brings extra publicity in the US by being Meghan's Uncle to boot
Lol... he is not Meghan's Uncle!

Here is the statement from Sarah Duchess of York. 'I am deeply supportive and proud of this giant of a principled man'.
Revolting.

To support the Duke of York