Is there a more pathetic and debased creature than the Andrew formerly known as Prince? The newly lowered and titleless Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have done little of worth with his opulent life, but at least he’s become a bottomless mine of rich schadenfreude in his old age.
His downfall was his close friendship with the world’s most notorious pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, at whose side he bovinely ambled into a grim world of child sex abuse and human trafficking. Nobody believed his frantic denials, but it seems that every week, new evidence comes to light that makes him look even worse.
Now, with the newly released batch of Epstein’s emails making headlines, guess who’s popped back up? Yup, it’s everyone’s least favorite not-a-Prince-anymore! The email dates from March 2011 and sees Andrew wailing miserably to Epstein after being contacted for right-of-reply about a news article about their relationship.
“What’s all this? I don’t know anything about this! You must SAY so please. This has NOTHING to do with me. I can’t take any more of this.”
These emails also solve another “mystery” about the Epstein/Andrew links by revealing that, surprise surprise, that picture of a smirking Andrew with his arm wrapped around the underage Virginia Giuffre was in fact real, with Epstein saying: “Yes, she was on my plane and yes, she had her photo taken with Andrew, as many of my employees have.”
Anyone with eyes could tell the photo was genuine, though Andrew’s “supporters” (currently mysteriously quiet) insisted to the press that the image was digitally faked, saying it was full of “inconsistencies”, like him being the wrong height and that Andrew’s real fingers are much “chubbier” than those in the image. All absolute bunkum, and yet more evidence of Andrew trying feebly to wriggle out of the grimy and disgusting hole he so willingly dug himself into.
Nowhere to go but down!
Things have gotten so bad for Andrew right now that you might assume he’s hit rock bottom. But I wouldn’t worry. For the last decade and change, there have always been more revelations, and they’ve always been worse.
There are far more Epstein files to come and, given his reputation for securing blackmail material against the wealthy and powerful, I’d bet there are considerably more lurid, foul, and barf-inducing stories to come about Mr Mountbatten-Windsor. If we were in medieval times, a King would have subtly bumped off a troublesome individual like Andrew.
That option is (probably) not available to Charles, so we’re just going to have to settle for seeing Andrew’s reputation hung, drawn, and quartered instead.
