The Prince and the Paedophile: Epstein's Royal Scandal

the prints and the pedophile the palace under pressure the victims the allegations of facts now Sky News investigates Prince Edward a royal scandal we turn next to a controversy shaking Britain's royal family all controversy about his links with a convicted pedophile a woman visitation papers filed in Florida that she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue I think it's hard to look at that picture and say that you had no idea that she was young that's extraordinary that somebody who isn't that Prince of England would go and meet with somebody who has these conviction of his brand Britain began to be affected by this as what is his own brand there is a feeling among the UK public that it's been too little too late he did say he likes to be loyal to his friends but I'm wondering how loyal he's feeling at the moment he just may be a prince in exile his own country [Music] the British Prince and the convicted pedophile it's a connection which has shocked and disturbed and new details suggests the connection may be deeper than first thought Prince Andrew the Queen's second son had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein which spanned decades Epstein died in a prison cell earlier this year years after being convicted for underage sex and awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges he was carrying out these depraved acts while schmoozing the Prince Prince Andrew was also accused in court documents of engaging in underage sex and participating in orgies on Epstein's private island their accusations he and Buckingham Palace vehemently deny and which the judge hearing the case struck from the court record Sky News does not suggest guilt on the Royals behalf but this epstein royal connection demands scrutiny tonight we'll explore Prince Andrew's history of controversies what he knew of Epstein's lewd illegal behavior and the claims the royal may have been a target in an international sex blackmail racket with the help of a range of experts will attempt to answer just how deep was the connection between the pedophile and the prince his life was destined to be scrutinized even before he could walk he was paraded before the cameras Andrew Albert Kristian Edward the third child and second son to Queen Elizabeth would spend much of his childhood in castles eight-year-old Prince Andrew joined the Cub Scouts six months ago like all the rest he must pass muster at the inspection by a Kayla the Cub leader dubbed the spare air he was never likely to rule his further slipped in succession in recent years but is believed to have always been number one in his mother's eyes he was born after a long hiatus after Charles and Anne were born and then many years elapsed and then Andrew came along and then Edward it's often being felt that Prince Andrew is perhaps the Queen's favorite child her face certainly lights up and dances when he's with her she absolutely adores him his 23 years in the Royal Navy saw him served with distinction in the Falklands War the British tabloids also reported salacious stories involving the sailors Shore length Prince Andrew he's been called Randy Andy there was a headline the other week where it was claimed that he'd had sex with a thousand women he admits lots of people around the world he'd been a sailor there's stories in the press about how one of his first trip support when he went straight to a strip club and the stripper in that establishment then changed the name of her act to the prince and the eye popper the Duke of York was also rumoured to be romantically connected to several famous women and holidayed in the Caribbean with American actress who starred he later put the party lifestyle behind him married and upon retiring from the military accepted a role as a UK trade envoi he was tasked with travelling the world to spruik British business opportunities one started to build up relationships with leaders business leaders influential people in other countries and it's the ability now to open the doors and give the access to business at whatever size but the footsie top-100 albeit a small and medium-sized enterprise to get them in the door he has traveled a huge amount working on behalf of Britain some would suggest perhaps working on behalf of Andrew as well but his nickname is air miles Andy because he has traveled so much perhaps he has pulled in the rights to travel on funded travel schemes perhaps too often because he tends to get private jets absolutely everywhere and make use of the the Queen's helicopter and anything he can he does work very hard for Britain but it's also not been without its advantages certainly his jet-setting on the public purse was tabloid fire air miles Andy and his travel spent have been controversial too costly say some four years and his dealings with unscrupulous characters raised serious red flags as a royal and in his role he was naturally exposed and a bit vulnerable to perhaps and less than reputable types of people he hasn't of all the Royals he's perhaps made some of the the less sound choices about whom he should work with and do deals with or be involved with in any way Prince Andrew met with the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2007 talker Tunisian holiday paid for by a convicted Libyan gun smuggler hosted a business lunch at Buckingham Palace for an accused money launderer and sold one of his homes to the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's ruler and you have to deal with the governments of those countries into our diplomat as our Prime Minister sister as a minister to trade - as our public servants do so did of Prince Andrew the Prince is said to have generated millions of dollars of investment in the UK his work promoting startups and charities has also been widely praised able to do functions for which he has been appointed but of course at the same time we have to remember there's always there the tabloid press a desperate need to produce that scandal perhaps the biggest Prince Andrews encountered led him to resign as trade envoi in 2011 it also led Buckingham Palace to take unprecedented measures amid incredible public pressure the scandal tying the royal family to a billionaire child sexual abuser [Music] [Applause] attending exclusive parties buying private islands and living in lavish overseas mansions this was the life of Jeffrey Epstein in the late 90s with the help of the boss of Victoria's Secret the form maths teacher rose to an uber wealthy and well-connected for Nancy he boasted about being a collector of powerful friends and in 1999 he eyed a prized addition to a contact list which already included Hollywood and Wall Street elites at the London home of mutual friend and philanthropist Ghislaine Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein met Prince Andrew it seems from the evidence that mr. Epstein was very good at meeting very very famous people he courted a very international and and starts the starstruck crowd and they were drawn to his enormous wealth and to his parties and to the glamor lifestyle he seemed to offer they'd like to attract royalty cuz royalty he opened stores in business in ways that perhaps more common mortals can't do Prince Andrew later said he stayed at Epstein's homes several times and flight records submitted in a civil suit against Epstein show the Prince traveled on Epstein's private plane from his private island to the US mainland in 1999 while Epstein was schmoozing Prince Andrew and others he was also using his power and wealth to abuse the vulnerable luring young women some underaged into his homes paying them for massages which would often turn to forced sex and he you know very forcefully kind of brought me into the table and I just did what I was me told me to do I was really scared I was terrified and I was telling him to stop please stop you know did he know anything that's not you had no intentions of stopping and that's what he wanted that's what he got investigators raided his Florida home where pictures of naked young women adorned the walls they identified at least 40 alleged victims one was just 14 years old among them Virginia Roberts jew-free the training started immediately I mean it was everything down to how to be quiet be subservient give Geoffrey what he wants you're screaming on the inside and you don't know how to let it come out and you just become this numb figure who refuses to feel and refuses to speak refuses all you do is obey that's it she claims Epstein used her as a sex slave and instructed her to have sex with powerful men including the man pictured with his hand on her 17 year old waist in 2001 Helen Palace is issued a strongly worded denial that Prince Andrew was involved in any impropriety after he was named an American court documents related to a convicted pedophile this relates to a long-standing and ongoing civil proceedings in the United States to which the Duke of York is not a party as such we would not comment on the detail however for the avoidance of doubt any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically and the judge in the Epstein civil suit rejected the claims regarding the prints deeming them immaterial and impertinent to the case striking them from the court record three years later in 2008 Epstein was behind bars convicted for soliciting sex with a minor but given a dubiously lenient sentence of just 18 months soon after he was released and had returned to New York he was snapped strolling through Central Park with Prince Andrew now that's extraordinary that somebody who is that Prince of England would go and meet with somebody who has these convictions now he was pivoted procuring sex with an underage girl and there were other charges that were dropped so you've got a question Prince Andrews decision making in this manner the image ignited a firestorm of outrage the UK public demanded to know why royal remained close with a convicted pedophile I was quite surprised by Andrews decision to keep doing that he did say he likes to be loyal to his friends but I'm wondering how loyal he's feeling at the moment a controversy shaking Britain's royal family Prince Andrew accused in a lawsuit of inappropriate relations with an underage girl Buckingham Palace forcefully denying the bombshell allegations he stood down as UK trade envoi as more epstein related allegations surfaced more potentially damaging revelations even today though the latest that Prince Andrews ex-wife was given fifteen thousand pounds by his American friend Jeffrey Epstein to pay off some of her debts that friend a convicted sex offender whose involvement with underage girls is even now being investigated by the FBI people have lost respect for him regardless of whether they believe the allegations against him or not his brand Britain can't be affected by this as well as his own brand and indeed of course the very important brand that is the royal family the public pressure forced the palace to do the unprecedented it released four statements denying prince andrew did anything improper and the prince himself fronted the press just wished to the injuries and to reaffirm the statements which had already be made on my behalf by [ __ ] palace my focus is on my work his epstein connection cost him a high-profile position and his standing among the British public but this saga is yet to be resolved the Queensland based mother is demanding justice from a royal the woman who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew called on the Duke to in her words come clean what do you make of Prince Andrews denials can you comment on that Virginia Roberts jew-free claims Jeffrey Epstein made her have sex with Prince Andrew three times in London New York and on Epstein's Caribbean island when she was 17 years old he can't say he didn't know her he can't say he wasn't friendly with her I think it's hard to look at that picture and say that you had no idea that she was young it's an accusation first levelled at the Prince more than ten years ago new court proceedings following Jeffery Epstein's death have brought it back to the for Virginia's lawyer told Sky News the Prince refused requests for an interview if he would sit down and talk to us and let everything come out and as as our client said yesterday just come clean this is the time to do it continuing to delay and obfuscate I don't think really is in his interest because this is not going away there's too much evidence here for the allegations simply to go away he points to this video filmed in 2010 showing Prince Andrew inside Epstein's New York mansion that is simply another illustration of the fact that Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein were very close he was at the mansion he was very comfortable and he knew that there were young women coming and going the testimony of people who were at the mansion is that nobody could be at that mansion and not understand that Jeffrey Epstein had a number of unusual relationships with young women in a statement Prince Andrew said I met mr. Epstein in 1999 during the time I knew him I saw him infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year I have stayed at a number of his residences at no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see witness or suspect any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction I deplore the exploitation of any human being and would not condone participate in or encourage any such behavior the way that Prince Andrew has responded to these very serious allegations of his association with a convicted pedophile who is now killed himself in a jail in New York is just beyond belief he has put out public statement after public statement where he has said that he has been appalled by any action that would degrade another human being but then why did he go and meet with mr. Epstein after he had been convicted after he had been to jail after the world had known what was going on inside mr. Epstein's home Prince Andrew's nationality and royal status make this a complex legal situation is Robert Jeffries team is exploring options to compel him to speak it's clear for her this isn't over my association is being sort of association Prince Andrew is adamant he did nothing illegal and some even suggest he may actually be a victim not of abuse but of an elaborate blackmail scheme commonly used by spies one of New York's largest private properties houses so many secrets Geoffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion has hosted many parties and prominent figures and it's allegedly where dozens of young women have sexually abused award-winning foreign correspondent Eric Margolis has been behind these doors he was invited to one of Epstein's events in the early 90s I'd say what was the oddest thing for me was soon after we had arrived one of his people came up to me and said would you like a massage and I was extremely taken aback is a highly unusual and certainly not what you do in the early evening happen it made me is it old Moscow journalist it immediately put up my antenna and made me the word honey trap came into my mind a honey trap is a method of using attractive women to lure powerful men into compromising situations recording their encounter and using the recording as blackmail for major intelligence services use this technique the Americans have used it extensively the Russians were notorious for doing it in Moscow they had these special ladies his names were swallows the birds that were good and enticing people they even came tried to dice me and I said sure take photos give me copies and my friends authorities reportedly discovered video cameras and microphones inside Epstein's properties and the former prosecutor who dropped several charges against Epstein in 2008 was quoted as saying he believed Epstein belonged to intelligence if you look back into the history of Epstein um he definitely has ties on in his past to CIA front companies like Southern Air Transport as well as figures that were on both the the payroll at the CIA and the Mossad there seems to be a lot of indications that would Alex Acosta was saying is accurate and that what he was doing what these girls wasn't just sexual exploitation for his own personal appetites I guess you could say but was really you know a intelligence agency involving sexual blackmail operations which the CIA has engaged in since it was founded in the in the late 40s if Epstein was indeed involved with honey trapping it would give the multi-millionaire incredible leverage and perhaps make him too powerful to be allowed to talk in a criminal trial as an old old warhorse in these matters i ee ramona that he committed suicide I think it's extremely difficult to do that from a prison bunk to hang yourself he may have broken his neck but I think it's more likely that he was killed and the initial reports were they heard screaming in there and he was a man knew too much and the old pirate line of dead men tell no tales certainly applied to Epstein the British royal family is said to represent what is good and proper its members not only wield ultimate political authority in Australia and other Commonwealth nations but the Royals also set a cultural tone suggestions of a royal family members possible knowledge of a pedophiles sex trafficking network are sure to impact its image the royal brand has been significantly damaged by this whole affair Prince Andrew has brought the royal family into disrepute and it doesn't appear that it will go away anytime soon what he should do is submit himself to the FBI I give a full statement to the authorities to try and show some level of concern and an action Prince Andrew continues to carry out public engagements just days ago attending a rowing regatta for which he's a patron the Duke also remains a patron of several UK charities buckingham palace if obviously it was saying that they don't at this stage think that there's anything that should warrant him standing down from his role but there are calls here one royal author is saying that the prince should perhaps step down from royal duties until these claims are resolved though Prince Andrew isn't the only royal affected by this intense public pressure stemming from the Epstein saga Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie are very very popular modern Royals you know we see a lot of them in public they're very a sort of embedded amongst UK celebrity culture very popular princesses who scene two do you know very good work for the monarchy and for them these allegations against Prince Andrew are going to be very difficult to deal with there were already reports last week that Princess Eugenie had delayed the start of a podcast that she had wanted to launch around modern slavery because of the allegations against you know Jeffrey Epstein and that world that her father was tied up and so I think you know Prince Andrew will be thinking about that and how you know this story could affect the the life of his daughters in the UK the royal family has seen its fair share of scandals over the years but this one could effectively forever sideline the prince Prince Charles has said he would like a slimline monarchy when he takes over in case of the Queen's death and so you've got a question what role he would play publicly following that succession now he's not gonna lose his title as a prince but he just may be a prince in exile in his own country you

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Reddit Comments

[u/Hellrime13]

Agreed, but we tried. Many of the sources that are actually on it and posting regular updates aren't held in high regard. I'm sure there is some correlation there, as the mass media did as much as they could to sweep it all under the rug.

[u/ziplock9000]

And people on here were complaining the BBC and other British media had covered it all up.

[u/DaisyKitty]

More than Julie Brown and the Miami Herald.

I don't think so.