“Mr. Windsor” Tries A Reset As New Epstein Emails And Sussex Party Fallout Raise Questions

Friends say Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is embracing life without titles, joking about dating apps and introducing himself as “Mr Windsor,” even as newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s circle refer to a possible “massage” at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London home and revive pressure for answers. Biographers and former staff paint a long portrait of Andrew as indulged, difficult and often bullying, while Sarah Ferguson’s latest children’s book is quietly withdrawn and commemorative plaques bearing Andrew’s name are removed in the Falkland Islands amid calls to rename streets and landmarks. In the celebrity world, Paris Hilton turns heads by wearing a gown once made famous by Kate at a Bond premiere, palace sources dispute claims that Harry’s Canadian visit was flagged in advance, and Tom Sykes in The Royalist argues that the Sussexes have stumbled into another public relations crisis over deleted party photos and disputed “consent forms,” raising fresh questions about a brand built on telling the truth.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Calarogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I
am your host. Mark Francis, a friend of Andrew's, reportedly
told Radar Online Andrew's mood has done a complete one eighty.
He keeps saying it's a weight off his shoulders, not
having to play the Royal anymore. He's making jokes about

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signing up for dating apps, hitting the pub like a
regular guy, even throwing parties again. For someone who's been
publicly humiliated, he seems oddly cheerful. Another longtime associate added,
he's calling for this big reset. He's taken to introducing
himself as mister Windsor, and he's more down to earth
these days. He laughs that being a commoner suits him.

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He can live like everyone else, only with a nicer
bottle on the table. Newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein's
estate suggests that Andrew mount Batten Windsor may have received
a massage at Glene Maxwell's London residence. The correspondence, disclosed
last week as part of more than twenty thousand pages
of material, dates from twenty fifteen and was sent just

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days after Andrew was named in US court filings. In
the message, Maxwell told him I have to distance myself
from you in a statement too, and they need me
to say I was not aware of massage with Andrew
in my house. Epstein replied, I am on the phone
with another attorney getting you an answer. Andrew has consistently
and vigorously denied all the allegations. Those reviewing the material

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in the US say the phrasing in Maxwell's message could
prove significant. One insider noted, you have to look very
carefully at what she says. She doesn't deny the massage
took place. She says that she has been told to
say that she was not aware that it took place.
This is going to heap further pressure on Andrew and
increase the pressure on him to answer questions. According to

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biographer Andrew Lowney, those who knew Andrew as a child
often found him challenging. One former playmate Tom Jackson described
him as a tiresome little shit, while Princess Diana recalled
him similarly unflattering terms. In her private reflections, she wrote,
he was very, very noisy and loud. It occurred to
me that there was something troubling him. She added that

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his personality wasn't for me, and noted that he was
very happy to sit in front of a television all
day watching cartoons and videos, calling him not a doer.
Loudi writes that even in the nineteen sixty nine Royal documentary,
Andrew was portrayed as a lively, cheerful boy with a
touch of the dare devil, but also already beginning to

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display the contrary behavior that would bedevil his life. Despite
his behavior, Andrew was widely considered the Lake Queen Elizabeth
the second favorite child, prompting suggestions that he was allowed
freedoms not extended to his siblings. Philip found him outgoing
and sociable, writing that whereas Charles was sensitive and thoughtful,
Andrew was marcho, confident and extroverted, a sort of son

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Philip had always wanted. But the Duke of Edinburgh was
said to be keenly aware of the risks of indulging him,
and sometimes warned that his son shouldn't always get his
own way. Accounts from within the household also pointed to
difficulties later on. In es Man, The Secret Life of
Royal Servants, Tom Quinn cites staff who believe Andrew resented
his status as the spare, writing that his frustration contributed

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to him becoming a bit of a bully in private.
One servant told Quinn, if he liked a member of
his staff, he could be very loyal and supportive, but
he couldn't resist being imperious and bossy and bad tempered
if anything went wrong or wasn't done exactly to his liking.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward later wrote that Philip berated Andrew
for being pointless and failing to live up to the

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potential he showed in his youth, particularly beyond his naval service.
Sarah Ferguson's latest children's book was withdrawn from sale ahead
of its planned publication. The new book, Flora and Fern
Kindness Along the Way, had been scheduled for release on
a turb ninth, then was pushed to November twentieth. It
has now been removed from retail listings. Nelson IQ Book

(04:07):
Data confirmed to the BBC that the title is now
marked as withdrawn from sale at the request of the publisher.
Commemorative plaques carrying the name of Andrew have been removed
across the Falkland Islands, according to reports in the Daily Mirror.
Multiple plants bearing his name have now disappeared. One is
believed to have been installed in nineteen eighty five to
mark the opening of Mount Pleasant Airport, while another was

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placed in two thousand and two during the opening of
a new block of infant junior schools in Stanley. Both
have reportedly been taken down. A third plark at the
Falklands Keemh Hospital was removed in twenty twenty two after
Andrew reached an out of court settlement with Virginia Geoffrey.
The removals came amid growing calls for roads, schools and

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even islands named after the former Duke to be renamed.
Following the posthumous publication of Miss Jeoffrey's memoir Nobody's Child.
In Northern Ireland, councilors are expected to debate a proposal
next month to rename Prince Andrew Way in Carrick Fergus.
Several other locations in Northern Ireland still carry Andrew's name,
including Prince Andrew Gardens and Prince Andrew Park in South

(05:14):
Belfast More Palace. In just a moment, some fans believe
Paris Hilton may have taken a subtle swipe at Meghan Market.
At the Double O seven themed party at Jeff Bezos House,
Hilton wore an ice blue Jenny Packham Lovebird address priced
at forty six hundred dollars the same design. Kate wore

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a gold version to the Double OH seven premiere in
twenty twenty one. Buckingham Palace has rejected suggestions that it
was informed in advance of Prince Harry's recent trip to Canada,
despite claims from the Duke of Sussex's team that notification
had been given. When Harry's office announced the Canadian trip,
they indicated the Palace communication staff had been briefed beforehand.

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Palace aides, however, maintained that the announced came a surprise.
Earlier this year, it was reported that Prince Harry had
offered to share his official schedule with the royal family,
a gesture interpreted by some as an attempt to ease
ongoing tensions. The aim was to provide clarity around the
Sussex's public activities and avoid clashes with the official engagements
of senior members of the royal family. In The Royalist,

(06:21):
Tom Sykes writes, the Sussexes continued to lurch from one
pr disaster to the next. According to Sikes, a few
vanishing Instagram posts in a bogus consent form expose in
perfect miniature how the Sussexes continued to misread the celebrity
attention economy they're trying to dominate In a week when
they were also accused of fibbing to the Palace, this

(06:41):
sorry saga of fiasco's is an abject parable in brand mismanagement.
The Sussex's lurch so effortlessly from one unforced error to
the next that simply out one particular branding or PR
disaster is difficult. But a week when they have been
revealed to be lying to the press, lying to the Palace,
gaslighting the public, annoyingly Kardashians, and shamelessly sucking up the

(07:02):
Jeff Bezos and doing it all very very badly probably qualifies.
People noticed that some images from inside the party posted
by Kim Kardashian and Chris Jenna had vanished from their
Instagram feeds. Trouble was, the digital toothpaste was already out
of the tube, Predictably. Screenshots of the photos, which showed
Megan looking on and Harry looking bleary eyed and unaware

(07:24):
that he was entering a semiotic battlefield which up to
that point had been largely ignored by everyone except the
most devoted reredators, now spread like wildfire. With the toothpaste
well and truly out of the tube, the Sussex has
tried to stuff it all back in and made a
mess in the process. Pretty soon, briefing from the Sussex
camp began wafting into journalists in boxes. The couple, it

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was said, had been presented with a consent form before
the party and had ticked the no social media box.
The implication was that someone on Kim and Chris's social
team had made a mistake posting the images and had
now simply honored their clearly stated wishes and remove them.
The Sussex's shambolic operation had underestimated how ruthlessly efficient the
Kardashian one is. Reps for the family flatly told anyone

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who asked that no such forms existed. There were no
consent forms, they said, none. Why the rapid rebuttal because
their team understands that when people lie about teeny tiny things,
the mind naturally wanders to what they might do when
the stakes are higher. On one level, it was all
delightfully trivial. On the other is the week rolled on.
It began to look like the purest distillation yet of

(08:30):
the Sussex's problem, a couple who have made truth their
brand appearing to bend reality over something as petty as
party optics. Because whatever did or did not happen with paperwork,
one fact is beyond dispute. Harry and Meghan asked for
the pictures to be taken down. And there you have it,
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