You will all have seen the screaming headlines.
Prince Andrew has been stripped of all royal titles and honours, and will no longer be known as “Prince Andrew” but as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. King Charles initiated this process after sustained public and political pressure related to Andrew’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein and renewed controversy over abuse allegations. Andrew has also been formally instructed to vacate his 30-room Royal Lodge mansion at Windsor and is set to relocate to a smaller property on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk; although the eviction is immediate, he will be allowed to remain at Royal Lodge until early 2026
Right - let me tell you something the media won’t allow you to accept.
Andrew is innocent.
He has not been convicted of ANY crime and all that we have against him is hearsay. Did he have sex with prostitutes? I don’t know but if he did that isn’t a crime and he wouldn’t be the first royal male to indulge in such sordidness! Don’t get me wrong, I think he is low IQ pampered dummy. I know he has shown atrocious judgement in the company he kept but many other famous people hung around Epstein and they are not being pilloried in this way. Paging Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and a galaxy of others!
And when it comes to Royals hanging out with bad ‘uns, Prince Charles was mighty friendly with serial paedophile Jimmy Saville. Should Charles be stripped off his kingship and thrown out of Buckingham Palace? After all, Saville was as notorious as Epstein in many ways.
In the UK, people are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
King Charles and his advisers have shown weakness and put self preservation first. Andrew may be a fool but he wouldn’t be the first Royal to be so. I watch the media salivate at his fall and am as disgusted at them, as I am at Charles, as I am at Andrew!
Thank you for being a voice of sanity, David! Yes, Andrew has consistently denied all wrong doing and his plea of innocence has been ignored.
Now, I appreciate he is a bit troublesome and ungracious. I remember stories of his mischievousness in the his naval days which only the Royal Navy were privy to. We forgave him. It was harmless stuff. He was a genuinely good pilot. Not a good enough man to be a Squadron Commander but good enough to be First Pilot of a front line squadron. He really did serve in the Falklands war with honour. Charles couldn’t have done that. He couldn’t be trusted to land a plane on a runway. Is jealousy a big part of the sour relationship? Probably.
Is Andrew a scapegoat for the grooming gang debacle? Definitely. His supposed “victim” was a woman of an age of consent in Britain. Unlike her, those poor little girls in care, who were much younger and had no parents to protect them from rape by the gangs, they were not living a high life of luxury and being paid for by a billionaire whose business they knew was nefarious. Some of the rape gang victims died. Many suffered torture. They are all deeply scarred.
But Andrew is white. Starmer will be complicit in this to distract attention away from the Muslim Pakistani grooming gang rapes and the necessary public enquiry. This is a political game.
Does William just want that property off his uncle? Definitely. He isn’t going to come out of this well.
So, what is the common factor in the downfall of the late, deserted, cheated Princess of Wales, Prince Andrew, left out in the cold as a lone, male, vulnerable divorcee and Prince Harry so sick on drugs that he was driven to a rehab clinic by a friend, because no one in the family could see the state he was in. It’s Charles. It’s always Charles.
Thank you for this timely article. I am absolutely astounded at the rank hypocrisy of the media that vilifies a man until he's stripped of all his rights and all his reputation without even having to step into a courtroom to be justly tried and sentenced.. This is mob rule.. No matter how you dress it up.. Yet there is not the same persistent, indignant, outraged, outcry from that same media over the Grooming rape gangs by Pakistani men of our vulnerable young children, in this country.. It's just so appalling!