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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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FluentOP · 21/10/2025 23:49

ColinOfficeTrolley · 19/10/2025 06:48

Fancy paying someone you 'can't remember' millions and millions of £££ to make everything disappear.

absolute cretin.

The whole royal family needs to be gone. It's a fucking pathetic, antiquated concept that serves absolutely no purpose to the people of this country.

Totally agree.

nowitsmetime · 22/10/2025 00:53

There is no way the King would have forced his brother to give up his titles if he didn't know Andrew was guilty. He needs to do the honourable thing and tell the police everything he knows, names and dates. Rather than this pretence of innocence. The book Entitled gives details of Andrew incredibly dodgy dealings of all varieties and yet the RF/PA have made no attempt to sue suggesting it's all true. He is a bad person.

RainbowBagels · 22/10/2025 01:58

DelectableMe · 21/10/2025 09:19

You have no idea what his intentions are.

Neither does anyone who says ' Oh hell modernise the Monarchy' or ' He'll be a great King'. There is more evidence of his intention to do nothing that doesnt enrich himself more for less value fir us than there is of either of the opposite imo. Hes the same as all of them.

Ukisgaslit · 22/10/2025 09:07

William is even worse than Charles .

And we do know his intentions because we can see his past actions .William was driving Andrew around 5 years ago when the Epstein scandal was fresh ( to us that is -the Windsors knew all about it years a before we did )
Why did he repeatedly get photographed with Andrew in the front seat ? Because William was up to his neck in the repeated efforts to rehabilitate Andrew. William wants the money and privilege so he’ll help prop up this degenerate institution. He’d have to start paying his tax pro prop if the British people finally call a halt to this whole con !

William is now trying to claim positive press for himself - it’s deeply cynical and cold
Also not a word for the victims

Ukisgaslit · 22/10/2025 09:12

Honestly the old ‘ he’ll modernise when he’s king’ is so blatantly a lie - how stupid do you have to be to fall for that

Weren’t we told Charles would ‘slim down’ the royals . Yet they are costing us millions more a year . Half a billion !
Now that line has been totally dropped and it’s ’William will modernise’ except even they aren’t saying he’ll take less money from us - they are saying he’ll hide in his 5th tax payer funded home and be an instagram king and call it ‘modern’
He’s not modern enough to reveal his Duchy takings is he though? Charles did that to some degree . William closed the books .

RogueFemale · 22/10/2025 23:29

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.

I agree. Nose in trough.

Tiredofbullsit · 28/10/2025 00:17

PinkPanther57 · 16/10/2025 19:35

It’s incredible. I’d always been sympathetic to ‘good hearted’ Sarah F…Now, however…

Oh god no, she’s always been loathsome and grasping!

Tiredofbullsit · 28/10/2025 00:20

Ukisgaslit · 22/10/2025 09:12

Honestly the old ‘ he’ll modernise when he’s king’ is so blatantly a lie - how stupid do you have to be to fall for that

Weren’t we told Charles would ‘slim down’ the royals . Yet they are costing us millions more a year . Half a billion !
Now that line has been totally dropped and it’s ’William will modernise’ except even they aren’t saying he’ll take less money from us - they are saying he’ll hide in his 5th tax payer funded home and be an instagram king and call it ‘modern’
He’s not modern enough to reveal his Duchy takings is he though? Charles did that to some degree . William closed the books .

Edited

How much more do you want it slimmed down?

Charles made that known years ago. Since then Prince Philip and the Queen have died, Harry and Meghan have jumped ship and Andrew has been disgraced.

That’s quite a bit of ‘slimming down’!

RainbowBagels · 28/10/2025 00:25

Tiredofbullsit · 28/10/2025 00:20

How much more do you want it slimmed down?

Charles made that known years ago. Since then Prince Philip and the Queen have died, Harry and Meghan have jumped ship and Andrew has been disgraced.

That’s quite a bit of ‘slimming down’!

The personnel may have been cut but not their costs. They are costing more despite doing less and despite Charles and William being muliti millionnaires.
I would also say there is no need for more than the monarch and heir ( and spouses) to be ' working Royals'.

Ukisgaslit · 28/10/2025 08:21

@Tiredofbullsit

‘Slimmed down’ was PR - it worked on you for example- implying a cost cutting.

It was nothing of the sort. We are paying more than ever for the Windsors . More money being paid into fewer pockets.

William has made it clear he’ll do as little as he likes but not only will he take as much money from us as he can get away with, he has already put a stop to the small amount of financial transparency that Charles allowed.

We are being royally ripped off

Ukisgaslit · 28/10/2025 08:41

I’d add that we are still very much in the dark re Windsor finances .
‘Convention’ prevents mps from discussing the Windsors - even Andrew !

This will stop now I hope .
Did any of us know that Andrew was paying a peppercorn rent? The Windsors have known about Epstein and Andrew for over a decade by NOW they are doing something ( or pretending to )

The crown estate owns Royal lodge
( Andrew’s house) in other words- we do. But we didn’t know anything about his preferential treatment
Do we know how much Edward pays for his 40 million mansion -also owned by us. And how much do William and Kate pay - they have moved every couple of years.

There is no transparency. We are a laughing stock . Those remaining European countries who have a figurehead monarch have their finances combed over in detail and they are answerable and subservient to parliament .

ForNoisyCat · 31/10/2025 11:19

Goldeh · 16/10/2025 17:20

He won't sue them because he cannot provide any evidence that the allegations aren't true. He even goes as far as saying he never met her despite evidence to the contrary. The sad fact of it though is that so many of the people involved are rich enough and connected enough that it's unlikely the full facts will ever come out.

I hope VG posthumously publishes a book of photos and names of all the perpetrators.

Cleikumstovies · 31/10/2025 13:53

Andrew Windsor was not the only one - the media here and overseas seem very quiet on any other complicit big names.....

AInightingale · 31/10/2025 15:59

Cleikumstovies · 31/10/2025 13:53

Andrew Windsor was not the only one - the media here and overseas seem very quiet on any other complicit big names.....

Andrew is increasingly looking like the fall guy (I'm not saying he isn't guilty of appalling crimes) for Clinton, Trump, Mitchell, Gates.

nowitsmetime · 01/11/2025 15:54

Cleikumstovies · 31/10/2025 13:53

Andrew Windsor was not the only one - the media here and overseas seem very quiet on any other complicit big names.....

yep, they all have power and money to carry on covering their crimes, Andrew just acted like he did, and so when his mother died, there was nothing left to hide behind. He needs to start confessing and detailing what he saw and who he saw, he needs to do the right thing for once.

It isn't just the royals, it is the whole of aristocracy in this country. All these duchies that are exempt from corporation and inheritance tax, because in the depths of history, an ancestor of theirs killed a lot of people. It's madness.

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