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Prince Andrew

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TabithaMerlot · 16/10/2025 09:42

I just think everyone should know about these details, published yesterday:

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-abuse-epstein-maxwell?CMP=share_btn_url

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Iwantmyoldnameback · 19/10/2025 21:04

Why are they even Princesses? They aren't the children of a reigning monarch nor directly in line like William and Harry.

ShenandoahRiver · 19/10/2025 21:19

They are princesses because they were the daughters of the son of a reigning monarch when they were born.
The children of the daughter of a reigning monarch had no such entitlement.

cupfinalchaos · 19/10/2025 21:21

ShenandoahRiver · 16/10/2025 20:00

It doesn't appear to be @PinkPanther57
Beatrice was in attendance at the opening of the Mayfair branch of First Abu Dhabi Bank in August. Grinning away. She knows exactly where the money is and is determined to keep her nose in the trough.

🤣🤣

TaraRhu · 19/10/2025 21:30

I really don't think he will care or understand why his titles are gone. This is normal behaviour for him and the sort of people he is mixing with.
He will just see it as some sort of act of the little people.

The only thing that would get him is taking away his money. But he's slippery and so is fergie. Their daughters are now well enough off to support them anyway if they went bankrupt.

I have to say I think k the rest of the royals are getting of lightly. They all must've known all about Andrew and his lifestyle. They have 24/7 surveillance and mi5 must be all over them for their protection. Surely they should have not swept this under the rug the carpet for 20+ years?? Plus who paid for his settlement? Why couldn't he pay that himself? He has a tidy fortune. What else was Andrew up too? The only reason Charles is acting now is to save the family reputation.

I also wonders why they could not prove from his security record where he was on that night at 'pizza express'? Surely they keep a record of it.

Fergie is an absolute disgrace. Freeloading left right and centre. The queen should have handled both of them better.

All that said, I do wonder who else was involved with Epstein? Andrew is an easy fall guy. What about all the others? Trump, Clinton, etc all the people with actual power? Andrew is a distraction for them. Jail the lot!

PinkPanther57 · 19/10/2025 21:51

TaraRhu · 19/10/2025 21:30

I really don't think he will care or understand why his titles are gone. This is normal behaviour for him and the sort of people he is mixing with.
He will just see it as some sort of act of the little people.

The only thing that would get him is taking away his money. But he's slippery and so is fergie. Their daughters are now well enough off to support them anyway if they went bankrupt.

I have to say I think k the rest of the royals are getting of lightly. They all must've known all about Andrew and his lifestyle. They have 24/7 surveillance and mi5 must be all over them for their protection. Surely they should have not swept this under the rug the carpet for 20+ years?? Plus who paid for his settlement? Why couldn't he pay that himself? He has a tidy fortune. What else was Andrew up too? The only reason Charles is acting now is to save the family reputation.

I also wonders why they could not prove from his security record where he was on that night at 'pizza express'? Surely they keep a record of it.

Fergie is an absolute disgrace. Freeloading left right and centre. The queen should have handled both of them better.

All that said, I do wonder who else was involved with Epstein? Andrew is an easy fall guy. What about all the others? Trump, Clinton, etc all the people with actual power? Andrew is a distraction for them. Jail the lot!

Bea is ££ via marriage!

Onlyonmumsne · 19/10/2025 21:59

Where are these emails coming from and why are they suddenly available when they were not beforehand- especially around the time of his NewsNight interview etc?

PinkPanther57 · 19/10/2025 21:59

TaraRhu · 19/10/2025 21:30

I really don't think he will care or understand why his titles are gone. This is normal behaviour for him and the sort of people he is mixing with.
He will just see it as some sort of act of the little people.

The only thing that would get him is taking away his money. But he's slippery and so is fergie. Their daughters are now well enough off to support them anyway if they went bankrupt.

I have to say I think k the rest of the royals are getting of lightly. They all must've known all about Andrew and his lifestyle. They have 24/7 surveillance and mi5 must be all over them for their protection. Surely they should have not swept this under the rug the carpet for 20+ years?? Plus who paid for his settlement? Why couldn't he pay that himself? He has a tidy fortune. What else was Andrew up too? The only reason Charles is acting now is to save the family reputation.

I also wonders why they could not prove from his security record where he was on that night at 'pizza express'? Surely they keep a record of it.

Fergie is an absolute disgrace. Freeloading left right and centre. The queen should have handled both of them better.

All that said, I do wonder who else was involved with Epstein? Andrew is an easy fall guy. What about all the others? Trump, Clinton, etc all the people with actual power? Andrew is a distraction for them. Jail the lot!

Also I think if we knew how much £ each of the children of late Queen really had they’d be a revolution.

PinkPanther57 · 19/10/2025 22:02

Onlyonmumsne · 19/10/2025 21:59

Where are these emails coming from and why are they suddenly available when they were not beforehand- especially around the time of his NewsNight interview etc?

Investigations mean now too many have sight. So…inevitably, leaks.

TaraRhu · 19/10/2025 22:03

@PinkPanther57 I think so too. They charge an absolute fortune to get into their palaces but don't seem to spent any of their own cash! What's that all about?

They royals are covering their own backs. I'm not against the royals at all but there are some things I think need to be addressed.

RainbowBagels · 19/10/2025 22:11

SerendipityJane · 19/10/2025 14:57

Back in 2019, when he was pulling the "Pizza Express" defence, I suggested that his bodyguard would know the truth.

Wasnt this asked, and apparently the notebooks were ' lost'? The lengths people ( police, palace staff, Parliament, the press) will go to to cover up numerous Royal shenanigans must be astronomical. Why can't/wont they hold them to account? It cant just he for the gongs surely? This country is run by absolute self interested arselickers top to bottom.

NotVWoolf · 19/10/2025 23:17

So anyone know if there is any truth in the rumour that Lord Porchester -below - (Queenies racing manager) is A’s father?

Prince Andrew
PinkPanther57 · 19/10/2025 23:25

NotVWoolf · 19/10/2025 23:17

So anyone know if there is any truth in the rumour that Lord Porchester -below - (Queenies racing manager) is A’s father?

I’d have said no, but as Royal reporters have said PA was a extraordinary ‘blind spot’ for the late Queen.

ARichtGoodDram · 19/10/2025 23:28

Iwantmyoldnameback · 19/10/2025 21:04

Why are they even Princesses? They aren't the children of a reigning monarch nor directly in line like William and Harry.

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For the same reasons Harry's children became HrH Prince and Princess when Charles became king - current LP's from 1917 grant all male line grandchildren of the monarch the HrH and Prince or Princess title.

SixSeven · 19/10/2025 23:41

ARichtGoodDram · 19/10/2025 23:28

For the same reasons Harry's children became HrH Prince and Princess when Charles became king - current LP's from 1917 grant all male line grandchildren of the monarch the HrH and Prince or Princess title.

I wonder if William will change that for Charlotte. In fact it’d be better if Charles did it now.

ARichtGoodDram · 19/10/2025 23:52

I wonder if William will change that for Charlotte. In fact it’d be better if Charles did it now.

I'm not sure if they will. I would have expected, if the intention was to level up the sexism of it, that when the LP's were issued for the Cambridge children prior to George's birth they would have done it then.

It was a prime time to re-write them going forward when neither William or Harry had children yet. But they didn't. In the changing "The eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales..." to "All children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales" they literally only changed it for the then future Cambridge children.

They were changing it because if George had been a girl she'd have been a future Queen but entitled to a lesser title than a younger brother. Yet the change didn't even future proof it for that possibility - she'd have been HRH Princess, she'd have been future Queen, but her own future children still wouldn't have been automatically entitled to titles.

ClareBlue · 20/10/2025 00:15

Didn't he say in the interview that his main fault was he was 'too honourable' as the reason for spending 4 days in the pedophile, child trafficker's house. He has even qualified not using his titles as an honourable and selfless act to support his sense of public duty and to prevent distraction of the dedicated work of the king. He's a vile delusional human who doesn't know what truth or honour are. Doesn't say much about the others if he was the favourite child.

ClareBlue · 20/10/2025 00:21

This is great😂
Can we get it viral. I'm going to refer to him this way in every post and every comment on Ticktock and Insta. If it gets established we heard it here first.

ClareBlue · 20/10/2025 00:21

XWKD · 19/10/2025 15:34

He needs to become the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

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mathanxiety · 20/10/2025 02:52

FluentOP · 18/10/2025 12:26

Well it wasn’t really taken away from him: he just said that he will no longer use the titles. He has tried to make himself look “honourable “ by saying that he will no longer use them as though he has made that decision . He needs to be held accountable for being part of the whole Epstein scandal. He is still denying it even though he emailed Epstein the day after the Virginia photograph appeared in the newspapers and instead of saying to Epstein “who is that in the photo, I have never met that girl”, instead he said “we are in this together “ and “we will play again soon”. He is a vile excuse for a human being. His family have been covering his tracks including his mother.

His statement read to me like the words of a man desperate to save face, who was given 'an offer he couldn't refuse' by people holding most of the strings.

Friendlygingercat · 20/10/2025 03:49

There us a sense of hierarchy in the RF around titles. Andrew was the golden child. He was made a Duke and yet Edward was only (until recently) an Earl. He seemed a bit overlooked as the youngest. For sure Edward made a few boobs when he was younger with that Royal Knockout and stalking William with his media company. However by and large he and his family have set a decent example and kept their heads down. He is now D of Edinburgh an honour I feel he has deserved.

FluentOP · 20/10/2025 19:06

PinkPanther57 · 16/10/2025 19:49

It must be so difficult for his daughters.

Apparently, they were on Epstein’s payroll too.

TabithaMerlot · 20/10/2025 19:33

FluentOP · 20/10/2025 19:06

Apparently, they were on Epstein’s payroll too.

On his payroll?
And when you say 'too', who else was?
OMG, what the hell was Epstein paying them for??
This is getting darker and darker.

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NewGirlInTown · 20/10/2025 19:34

I find it incredible that Prince Andrew is the only “friend of Epstein” who has been outed in this way. When you think of all those flights to the island….

AInightingale · 20/10/2025 19:45

NewGirlInTown · 20/10/2025 19:34

I find it incredible that Prince Andrew is the only “friend of Epstein” who has been outed in this way. When you think of all those flights to the island….

Yes, that is baffling me too. Who else is discussed in this book? Andrew Windsor is a vile creature if the accusations are true, but what of the others in Epstein's circle? The book seems to have been commissioned and written as a massive act of deflection. Something about this is rotten to the core, and I don't believe for one minute in Epstein's 'suicide'. I expect we'll have to wait until after the deaths of some of the other high-profile predators for the truth to fully emerge.

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