October 16, 2025 • 26 mins
Prince Andrew’s attempted comebacks—whether through soft public reappearances or entrepreneurial ventures—have repeatedly stumbled amid persistent scandal and institutional resistance. His early efforts, such as signaling interest in low-profile engagements or charitable causes, were mostly ignored by the Palace and public alike. Even when he quietly attended family events or public ceremonies, he remained under tight constraints: his appearances were limited, carefully managed, and rarely fully public. Meanwhile, the release of fresh documents and resurfacing allegations have continuously punched holes in any rehabilitative narrative he might try to spin.
On the business front, Andrew has tried to monetize his royal network, but results have been underwhelming. A reported deal with a Dutch startup firm—meant to leverage his “Pitch@Palace” brand and connections—failed to yield any signed contracts or tangible outcomes. Critics and royal watchers say the venture underscores how his appeal is now more a liability than an asset. Rather than a comeback, his attempts have exposed just how toxic the Epstein association remains—and how powerless he has become to reverse the damage.
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On the business front, Andrew has tried to monetize his royal network, but results have been underwhelming. A reported deal with a Dutch startup firm—meant to leverage his “Pitch@Palace” brand and connections—failed to yield any signed contracts or tangible outcomes. Critics and royal watchers say the venture underscores how his appeal is now more a liability than an asset. Rather than a comeback, his attempts have exposed just how toxic the Epstein association remains—and how powerless he has become to reverse the damage.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. If there is
one person who just will not accept the fate that
they have been dealt because of their own actions, that
person has to be Prince Andrew. This guy truly believes
that eventually all of this is going to blow over
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and that he's going to make a comeback, that you're
just going to accept the fact that Prince Andrew has
now rehabilitated his life and he's back on the right
path and he's going to do the right thing. In reality,
we all know that that's not the case and none
of that's going to occur. But this man is still
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so blinded by hubris, so blinded by arrogance, that he
and his people truly think that he has a chance
to make a comeback and become part of public society again,
become part of the royal family, or as they would say,
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have a place on the balcony, when the reality of
the situation on the ground certainly does not match up
with what he's saying or thinking. I don't know of
anybody that is willing to accept this dude back in
public life at this point, and I don't think ever again,
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the things that he was accused of the things that
he settled out of court. The allegations that he settled
out of court are so heinous that I don't know
how anyone can look at this and say, oh, yeah,
no big deal, let's just keep it moving. Come on,
Prince Andrew, have yourself a place of honor right here
at the table. It's not reality, and it once again
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shows you that Prince Andrew and his friends, if you
want to call them that, surrogates whatever, they're still living
in fantasyland, folks. They truly believe that none of this
is happening. There's no way that this can be real,
and they're still holding on to the hope that eventually
old Joe exotic of the Winsor family over here, is
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going to make some kind of comeback. And today we
have an article from Fox News talking about that very thing.
This article was authored by Stephanie Alasko and the headline
is Prince Andrew believes he has a future amid sex
abuse settlement. Experts claim he won't go away quietly. What
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do they say, I don't care if you go away quietly,
Prince Andrew, just go the fuck away. Nobody wants to
see your stupid face. Nobody wants to hear your dumb voice.
Nobody wants to do anything that has anything to do
with you. This article was authored by Stephanie Alasko. Prince
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Andrew still believes he has a shot at public life. Well,
there's a lot of people out there that believe a
lot of weird, crazy things. Right, doesn't make it reality,
and it's certainly not reality here for Prince Andrew or
his surrogates to even think for one single moment that
they're going to be accepted back into society, especially in
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a place of honor. Pals of the Duke of York
made that claim after Prince Andrew agreed last week to
settle his sex abuse case by making a substantial donation
to his accuser's charity and declaring that he never meant
to malign her character. Let's not forget missus Nalasko about
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the huge settlement she's getting paid as well. Let's not
act like it's just a small donation to a charity. Here,
a substantial donation to a charity. It's a lot more
than that. Kareine Bearfield, an executive producer for True Royalty TV, said,
the revelation came during a recent taping of The Royal Beat,
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a talk show for Streaming for the streaming service that
features exclusive interviews with royal experts and palace insiders. Look,
there's like a whole entire market for this, right, a
whole entire economy based on what the Royals are doing,
and of course the people that are making their chit
ching on that, they're gonna do everything they can to
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make sure the gravy train keeps rolling, and they're going
to always try and make sure that they're putting the
best face on the royal family. So there's a lot
of these type of journalists or whatever in the UK
and America and elsewhere that are very friendly to the
Royal family, and they won't look at them with the
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proper kind of discerning eye, if you will. The royal
experts shared by speaking to friends of the Duke of
York that he still believes he has a future as
a royal. Barefield told Fox News Digital, Okay, so it's
friends of the royal Well, who could that possibly be.
We've only heard a couple of people come out and
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speak up on his behalf, right, So my guess is
it's either that ain't that tire eh talking about this
or his lawyers, because we know he doesn't have any friends.
Who the hell wants to be friends with a douche
like this. The language that he used in his statement,
like the fact that he will be helping sex trafficking victims,
could be seen as him trying to reposition himself and
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reinvent himself in the eyes of the public. It's my
understanding that his daughter, Princess Eugenie, also has a charity
that helps sex trafficking victims, and it might be that
he's trying to get on board with that. Oh that's
gonna work out. Well, how are you folks going to
react to that, good old Prince Andrew working with sex
trafficking victims. Furthermore, how are the sex trafficking victims going
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to feel knowing that they got to deal with Prince Andrew?
Highly doubt that's going to work out for him. Should
probably find a different role for him somewhere else in
the world. Like I said, sewer cleaning, rat catcher, changing
out the chamber pots for his mom, you know, stuff
like that. Stuff he's capable of doing. Royal sock paerer,
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food taster, court jester, those sorts of things. The fact
that they would even suggest that he'd have anything to
do with a human trafficking organization at this point is
disgusting beyond all measure. All he has is his family
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right now to support him. She shared, it's my understanding
that Prince Andrew still believes he has a lot to
contribute to public life. Yeah, you know, we all have
these delusions of grandeur at points in our lives, right
but Prince Andrew is seriously suffering from delusions of grandeur.
If he thinks he's coming back into public life. There
is no roadmap for him to come back. There is
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nothing that he could do to come back into public life.
It's done and he needs to accept it. And he
needs to also accept the fact that nobody wants him
involved with any human trafficking organizations right away. You take
the legitimacy of that organization away. If this dude's involved,
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I don't think anyone else feels the same. But he
won't go away quietly. He will want to come back
to public life. Well, we all have a lot of
things that we want. I want to be into Paul
right now, climbing Mount Everest. Instead, I'm here in the
studio talking to you. Prince Andrew's going to have to
accept his fate, and unfortunately for him, the party's over.
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Bearfield said the announcement of the sixty one year old
settlement was a shock to those in the UK because
they were expecting a lengthy court battle. Yeah, well guess
what if you don't have the truth on your side.
There's no lengthy court battles. And it doesn't matter if
you have Bretler representing you or the Lord himself. If
you do not have the right evidence, if you do
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not have witness statements, if you do not have people
to come forward and back up your claims, then no
one's going to believe you. I know it's breaking news
that I have to go over this again, but here
we are. This man has shown zero proof to back
up his claims throughout this whole entire thing, and people
are shocked that he took a settlement. We always knew
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that this was the end result. This dude. He did
not want to go to trial. He didn't want to
go to discovery and be absolutely dragged, especially considering he
understands the fate that awaited his good friend Jeffrey and
his best pal Galayne after they were deposed by Boys
and Company. How did that end up for Epstein and Maxwell?
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Anyone want to refresh my memory? Oh, that's right. Both
of them ended up arrested, didn't they. Oh how about
Jean Luke Brunell. Didn't he end up getting arrested too?
It just felt so sudden, she said. The immediate question
that came to mind was why Now. According to the
royal experts, there was a push from the Queen and
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Prince Charles to get things sorted. While that's certainly the
narrative that the royal family wants to push, I'm getting
more and more convinced. I have no evidence of this,
by the way, just my feeling that I think this
picture was found. I think Virginia's team did find this picture.
They knew where it was, and they let Prince Andrew's
team know about it behind the scenes. And when Andrew's
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team found out about it, that's when they decided it's
time to settle. And that's why this caught everybody by shock,
because people in the know, the no crowd in the
UK thought that Prince Andrew was ready to go to
you know, go to the mattresses here and then all
of a sudden for this abrupt change. Now again, that's
just my guess, right. I have no idea what really
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initiated all of this. It could be something completely different,
but it must we have some fact. It certainly makes sense, right,
Why else would this be such a sudden diversion in
the plan from Prince Andrew. The scandal is not good
for the monarchy and it's certainly not good for public
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perception of the monarchy. So it's my understanding that Prince
Charles and the Queen wanted this matter solved quickly so
they can get on with their work and highlight the
good that the monarchy still does. And that's what it's
always about. And another thing that I find so infuriating.
It's always about the monarchy. This the monarchy that, oh,
the good the monarchy does, the good, this person, what
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about the bad? So we're just gonna wrap ourselves in
our armor of charitable services and say, ah, well, it
doesn't matter if we do anything bad, because look, we've
done all of this good stuff. Well guess what, Just
like the Onion Knight, even though you do something good,
you still have to be punished for the things that
you did wrong. Just ask standa Barathian. But we don't
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have that going on here. There's no accountability, none of that. Ever,
when it comes to people like Prince Andrew and the
royal family, well look, do you really think they care
about these survivors of these girls? They look at them
as a nuisance. And you can tell by the reaction
that the Crown has had for all this time. You know,
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the Queen should have forced his hand a long time ago. Folks.
The deal does avoid a trial that would have brought
further embarrassment to the monarchy. Well, how could that be possible?
I thought Prince Andrew never met her, they had never
seen each other, they have never associated, So how could
it possibly bring more embarrassment to the monarchy. It never happened,
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right according to Prince Andrew. And this is a guy
whose word is bond. This is a man who doesn't lie.
This is an honorable man. Just ask him. So why
wouldn't anyone believe him? Why wouldn't anyone want to, you know,
have him go to trial and clear his name. Oh
that's right, because he wouldn't clear his name, he would
make a bigger fool of himself and put even more
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shit on the face of the monarchy. Besides the undisclosed
donation to Virginia's charity, the court filing revealed that Andrew
acknowledges she suffered as an abuse victim. It did not
specify whether Roberts would personally receive money as part of
the settlement. We all know the deal, okay, And it
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doesn't shock me that Fox News would try and put
a little nice spin on it for their boy, the Prince.
I mean, does that shock anybody at this point when
you talk about these sorts of news outlets Fox and
CNN and MSNBC and all the rest of them. All
they're good at at this point is getting people all
gassed up to hate each other, getting people all gassed
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up to hate their cousin Joe, when in reality, all
they're doing is protecting the scumbag friends that they have
in these high positions. According to The Telegraph, Andrew will
pay Roberts more than twelve million pounds or more than
sixteen million dollars, using money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth
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the Second. The outlet noted that the reigning monarch ninety
five has privately funded her son's legal fight to the
tune of millions, and will now partly fund the settlement
to avoid having the case overshadow her Platinum jubilee this year.
That's nice have that kind of money. You're like, ah,
you know what, I don't need this disgusting sort of
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you know, people looking in on us and this, you know,
spotlight on us during my jubilee celebration. So let's just
pay out an obscene amount of money to keep things
quiet about sexual assault and RPE. That's the way these
people live their lives. They live a life of non
disclosure agreements, a life of backroom dealings, and a life
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of being able to do whatever they want because their
bank account says. And I don't know about you, folks,
but I'm pretty tired of living in a world like that.
The Queen's contribution to the settlement will reportedly come from
her private duchy of Lancaster estate. And remember when all
of this was happening, there was a lot of people
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that were like, the Queen's not paying for Andrews legal fees. Yes,
yes she was. I said she was then and I'll
say she was now. There's no doubt this dude can't
afford Brettler. There's no way he's affording a singer and
Bretler and the rest of them. Of course, the queen
was paying for his defense. Folks. It is estimated that
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the money from the settlement would be split into three
unequal portions, with Roberts, her lawyers, and charities each taking
a piece. Oh, of course, the lawyers have to get
something right. Don't even get me started on the lawyers.
Oh era pro bono. Remember I was talking about this too.
Nothing's ever done for free. These lawyers, they knew that
they'd increase their profile. They knew that they would, you know,
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get more people through their doors if they did a
good job here. But you better believe there's no lawyer
leaving any money on the back end. It's just like
if you get into like a car accident, right, that
first offer they give you is always garbage. I got
into a car accident, I don't know, five years ago,
six years ago now, and there's pretty bad car accident, right,
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So the first settlement offer that they tried to give
me was absolutely ridiculous. So I told them, yeah, right,
zero chance, my friends go back and get something better.
And you know, these lawyers, of course, on the back
end of these kinds of settlements they're getting paid and
it's no different here. I don't think the queen would
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be paying the settlement money, said Bearfield. However, she could
possibly be paying some of the funds to the charity.
It just wouldn't sit well with people if the Queen
contributed financially to the settlement itself. But the situation does
put her in a tricky spot as a queen and
as a mother. Every parent wants to help their children,
but in her case, she has all of the public's
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eyes on her. I mean, that's all fine and well,
and I agree, you know, every parent does want to
help their children, but really in a situation like this,
you're worried about that. No, Prince Andrew, he shouldn't even
be a question at this point. This dude should be
forgotten about and exiled to the furthest flung province in
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the Empire. While Andrew may be eager to put the
case behind him, Barfield suspected that his woes are far
from over. We truly don't know if in time Virginia
will write a book, she explained. And right before Andrew
agreed to settle, there was a massage therapist who regularly
treated the prince that alleged he was a constant sex
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pest to her. That was quite shocking. So it makes
me wonder how many more people would come forward with
their own stories. Will this truly go away for Prince
Andrew once the settlement is over? Will more people come
forward and speak out or sell their stories to the press.
This is something I've talked about a lot. And when
you see the holes in the hull of the boat,
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more people are willing to attack it right And when
the dam has one little hole in it, eventually it
leads to a big bursting situation. And that's what we
were seeing here. Nobody ever came out and spoke against
Prince Andrew because he was in such a position of
power and they knew they couldn't knock him off of
his perch. So now that he is showing that he's vulnerable,
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people are going to come out of the woodwork and
they're going to talk about their relationship or their experience
with Prince Andrew as well. Bearfield also pointed out that
Andrew shouldn't expect the public to welcome him back with
open arms. They not going to welcome him back at all,
open arms, closed arms, no arms. It doesn't matter. Dude
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is not welcomed. People don't think of him very positively here.
She said. They feel that he should have been more
remorseful earlier. He certainly lost a lot of supporters in
the UK. The lawyer we also spoke to shared that
the only reason people settle is that they think they're
going to get caught. Yeah, no shit, oh on breaking news.
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The sky is blue and water is wet. You don't
settle out of court for this kind of dough if
you're innocent. Come on, man, And it's not like this
dude's super rich, right, his mom is, his family is,
but he's not. He's a grifting a lowlife. So it's
not like this dude has a bunch of money where
he's just like, all right, just pay this settlement and
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let's keep it quiet. This is ruinous for him. Many
have wondered if the British monarchy could survive the public scandal.
Bearfield is optimistic. Oh, of course she is. I'm guessing
Bearfield is one of these royalists, right. Oh, we love
to claim no madaw Chay does. When it comes to
the royal family, life goes on and they like to
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exemplify that with their work, she said. Shortly after the
Queen did her first in person public engagement since the settlement.
While her family may be in turmoil, the Queen obviously
wanted to put a positive image that the head of
the household is carrying on. It is all about public perception,
and I think she wanted to put that positive image
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across that the monarchy does have a future and it
will carry on. The fact that this lady has to
say this and point this out is troubling and should
be very, very concerning to the monarchy. I've said it
once and I say it again. This is the beginning
of the end for these people, in my opinion. Now,
I don't know how long it'll take, but I have
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a feeling we're going to see a very pared down
royal family in the future. Now I don't know if
they're going to be obsolete or anything like that, but
you look at the other royal families in Europe and
I think that's the fate that the monarchy is on
its way to Roberts thirty eight suit Andrew in August,
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the American accused the British royal of sexually abusing her
while she traveled with Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew strenuously denied Robert's
allegations and attempted to get the lawsuit tossed earlier this
year and again. An innocent man fights this tooth and nail. Right.
You bring evidence, you bring corroborating witnesses, people who were
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with you, whatever it might be. But innocent men certainly
don't settle for a sum of money such as this.
According to the statement, Andrew acknowledged that Epstein trafficked countless
young girls over many years, and said he regrets his
association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Miss Roberts
and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.
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He also pledged to support the victims of sex trafficking
as part of demonstrating his regret. Well, you could start
by demonstrating your regret by shutting up and going away.
Nobody wants your help, Nobody wants you to be part
of any charity. Nobody wants you working with sex trafficked victims.
You really think one of these women, one of these girls,
who has been caught up in a human trafficking operation,
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wants to show up and have Prince Andrew there as
the keynote speaker, or this idiot's a picture up on
the wall because he's a patron Nobody wants to see it. Andrew,
who had already stepped back from royal duties, was stripped
of his honorary honorary military titles and roles in leadership
of various charities known as royal patronages. He also can
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no longer use the title His Royal Highness in official settings. Well,
isn't that nice? Prince Andrew got a little spanking. Can't
use his royal title no more? Well he can go
and console himself and go hang out with his teddy bears.
Roberts asserted that she met Andrew while she travels frequently
with Epstein between two thousand and two thousand and two,
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when her lawyers maintained she was on call for Epstein
for sexual purposes and was lent out to other powerful men,
including Andrew. This sounds about right. You know Bill Richardson,
Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, you know George Mitchell. We can
go on. Those are all other names that have been
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pointed out by Virginia for not only enabling Jeffrey Epstein,
but also taking part. And you would think that if
the authorities and the quarter taking her allegations in these
other instances seriously, that they'd be looking at these people
as well. Her lawsuit said she still suffers significant emotional
and psychological distress and harm. She has alleged she had
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sex with Andrew three times in London, during a two
thousand and one trip, at Epstein's New York mansion when
she was seventeen, and in the Virgin Islands when she
was eighteen. Andrew repeatedly denied Robert's allegations and has said
he can't recall every meeting her. Although a photograph of
Roberts and Andrew together in a London townhouse house, his
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arm around her bear midriff, was included in Robert's lawsuit
against him. Well, yeah, that's the picture that sunk them folks, right.
No matter what anybody else says, the facts certainly lead
us to the destination of that picture being the biggest
factor in Andrew's downfall. Inconsistencies in her statement statements over
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the years that would have been highlighted by Andrew's attorneys
at trial may have motivated motivated her in part to settle,
though She has explained them as innocent mistakes that occur
when recalling traumatic events years later. Oh god, the author
of this article has no idea what they're talking about. Wow,
Holy cow. So if that was the case, the inconsistencies
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that you're talking about here, don't you think that Prince
Andrew would have pushed the issue if there was all
these inconsistencies that they could have exploited. You don't think
Prince Andrew's two thousand dollars an hour lawyers would find them.
There weren't there, folks. That's what it comes down to,
all right, all the bes, all the rhetoric, you could
throw it all out, look at the results, and that
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is what matters. Andrew served in the Royal Navy for
two decades, including as a helicopter pilot during the nineteen
eighty two Falklands War. The honorary military roles he lost
included several overseas ones, such as his title as Colonel
in Chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment.
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I'm sure that they're just so absolutely broken up inside
that Prince Andrew is no longer their patron. He spent
years combating concerns about his links with Epstein, the US
financier paedophile who took his life allegedly at age sixty
six in twenty nineteen and a Manhattan federal lockup while
awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges. Epstein's longtime companion
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Yo the author of this article is just whack and
Fox News. I mean, obviously, this is why I hardly
ever read anything from Fox News on the show, because
it's literally gobbage. But I mean, you can't at least
call her what she is, a human trafficker. A settlement
of the Andrew lawsuit would follow deals reached by Roberts
years ago to resolve separate lawsuits against Maxwell and Epstein.
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It was recently revealed that Epstein settled for a five
hundred thousand dollars Well, we all know about the settlements,
and we all know that it wasn't going to be
the end. There was so much more there and so
many more people involved, that it was just the beginning.
And we see that now, all these years later, all
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of these lawsuits working their way through the system, and
according to reports, we still have an impaneled grand jury
looking at co conspirators. So for Prince Andrew, and all
of his thoughts and his dreams of coming back to
public life. I'd put a hold on all of that,
mister Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, because because that
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eventuality is never going to come to fruition. All right, folks,
that's gonna do it for this morning's update. Throughout the day,
you'll have some context episodes coming your way, and then
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and I will talk to all of you then
And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. If there is
one person who just will not accept the fate that
they have been dealt because of their own actions, that
person has to be Prince Andrew. This guy truly believes
that eventually all of this is going to blow over
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and that he's going to make a comeback, that you're
just going to accept the fact that Prince Andrew has
now rehabilitated his life and he's back on the right
path and he's going to do the right thing. In reality,
we all know that that's not the case and none
of that's going to occur. But this man is still
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so blinded by hubris, so blinded by arrogance, that he
and his people truly think that he has a chance
to make a comeback and become part of public society again,
become part of the royal family, or as they would say,
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have a place on the balcony, when the reality of
the situation on the ground certainly does not match up
with what he's saying or thinking. I don't know of
anybody that is willing to accept this dude back in
public life at this point, and I don't think ever again,
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the things that he was accused of the things that
he settled out of court. The allegations that he settled
out of court are so heinous that I don't know
how anyone can look at this and say, oh, yeah,
no big deal, let's just keep it moving. Come on,
Prince Andrew, have yourself a place of honor right here
at the table. It's not reality, and it once again
(01:48):
shows you that Prince Andrew and his friends, if you
want to call them that, surrogates whatever, they're still living
in fantasyland, folks. They truly believe that none of this
is happening. There's no way that this can be real,
and they're still holding on to the hope that eventually
old Joe exotic of the Winsor family over here, is
(02:10):
going to make some kind of comeback. And today we
have an article from Fox News talking about that very thing.
This article was authored by Stephanie Alasko and the headline
is Prince Andrew believes he has a future amid sex
abuse settlement. Experts claim he won't go away quietly. What
(02:32):
do they say, I don't care if you go away quietly,
Prince Andrew, just go the fuck away. Nobody wants to
see your stupid face. Nobody wants to hear your dumb voice.
Nobody wants to do anything that has anything to do
with you. This article was authored by Stephanie Alasko. Prince
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Andrew still believes he has a shot at public life. Well,
there's a lot of people out there that believe a
lot of weird, crazy things. Right, doesn't make it reality,
and it's certainly not reality here for Prince Andrew or
his surrogates to even think for one single moment that
they're going to be accepted back into society, especially in
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a place of honor. Pals of the Duke of York
made that claim after Prince Andrew agreed last week to
settle his sex abuse case by making a substantial donation
to his accuser's charity and declaring that he never meant
to malign her character. Let's not forget missus Nalasko about
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the huge settlement she's getting paid as well. Let's not
act like it's just a small donation to a charity. Here,
a substantial donation to a charity. It's a lot more
than that. Kareine Bearfield, an executive producer for True Royalty TV, said,
the revelation came during a recent taping of The Royal Beat,
(03:59):
a talk show for Streaming for the streaming service that
features exclusive interviews with royal experts and palace insiders. Look,
there's like a whole entire market for this, right, a
whole entire economy based on what the Royals are doing,
and of course the people that are making their chit
ching on that, they're gonna do everything they can to
(04:21):
make sure the gravy train keeps rolling, and they're going
to always try and make sure that they're putting the
best face on the royal family. So there's a lot
of these type of journalists or whatever in the UK
and America and elsewhere that are very friendly to the
Royal family, and they won't look at them with the
(04:42):
proper kind of discerning eye, if you will. The royal
experts shared by speaking to friends of the Duke of
York that he still believes he has a future as
a royal. Barefield told Fox News Digital, Okay, so it's
friends of the royal Well, who could that possibly be.
We've only heard a couple of people come out and
(05:04):
speak up on his behalf, right, So my guess is
it's either that ain't that tire eh talking about this
or his lawyers, because we know he doesn't have any friends.
Who the hell wants to be friends with a douche
like this. The language that he used in his statement,
like the fact that he will be helping sex trafficking victims,
could be seen as him trying to reposition himself and
(05:27):
reinvent himself in the eyes of the public. It's my
understanding that his daughter, Princess Eugenie, also has a charity
that helps sex trafficking victims, and it might be that
he's trying to get on board with that. Oh that's
gonna work out. Well, how are you folks going to
react to that, good old Prince Andrew working with sex
trafficking victims. Furthermore, how are the sex trafficking victims going
(05:50):
to feel knowing that they got to deal with Prince Andrew?
Highly doubt that's going to work out for him. Should
probably find a different role for him somewhere else in
the world. Like I said, sewer cleaning, rat catcher, changing
out the chamber pots for his mom, you know, stuff
like that. Stuff he's capable of doing. Royal sock paerer,
(06:14):
food taster, court jester, those sorts of things. The fact
that they would even suggest that he'd have anything to
do with a human trafficking organization at this point is
disgusting beyond all measure. All he has is his family
(06:34):
right now to support him. She shared, it's my understanding
that Prince Andrew still believes he has a lot to
contribute to public life. Yeah, you know, we all have
these delusions of grandeur at points in our lives, right
but Prince Andrew is seriously suffering from delusions of grandeur.
If he thinks he's coming back into public life. There
is no roadmap for him to come back. There is
(06:58):
nothing that he could do to come back into public life.
It's done and he needs to accept it. And he
needs to also accept the fact that nobody wants him
involved with any human trafficking organizations right away. You take
the legitimacy of that organization away. If this dude's involved,
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I don't think anyone else feels the same. But he
won't go away quietly. He will want to come back
to public life. Well, we all have a lot of
things that we want. I want to be into Paul
right now, climbing Mount Everest. Instead, I'm here in the
studio talking to you. Prince Andrew's going to have to
accept his fate, and unfortunately for him, the party's over.
(07:45):
Bearfield said the announcement of the sixty one year old
settlement was a shock to those in the UK because
they were expecting a lengthy court battle. Yeah, well guess
what if you don't have the truth on your side.
There's no lengthy court battles. And it doesn't matter if
you have Bretler representing you or the Lord himself. If
you do not have the right evidence, if you do
(08:07):
not have witness statements, if you do not have people
to come forward and back up your claims, then no
one's going to believe you. I know it's breaking news
that I have to go over this again, but here
we are. This man has shown zero proof to back
up his claims throughout this whole entire thing, and people
are shocked that he took a settlement. We always knew
(08:28):
that this was the end result. This dude. He did
not want to go to trial. He didn't want to
go to discovery and be absolutely dragged, especially considering he
understands the fate that awaited his good friend Jeffrey and
his best pal Galayne after they were deposed by Boys
and Company. How did that end up for Epstein and Maxwell?
(08:49):
Anyone want to refresh my memory? Oh, that's right. Both
of them ended up arrested, didn't they. Oh how about
Jean Luke Brunell. Didn't he end up getting arrested too?
It just felt so sudden, she said. The immediate question
that came to mind was why Now. According to the
royal experts, there was a push from the Queen and
(09:09):
Prince Charles to get things sorted. While that's certainly the
narrative that the royal family wants to push, I'm getting
more and more convinced. I have no evidence of this,
by the way, just my feeling that I think this
picture was found. I think Virginia's team did find this picture.
They knew where it was, and they let Prince Andrew's
team know about it behind the scenes. And when Andrew's
(09:32):
team found out about it, that's when they decided it's
time to settle. And that's why this caught everybody by shock,
because people in the know, the no crowd in the
UK thought that Prince Andrew was ready to go to
you know, go to the mattresses here and then all
of a sudden for this abrupt change. Now again, that's
just my guess, right. I have no idea what really
(09:54):
initiated all of this. It could be something completely different,
but it must we have some fact. It certainly makes sense, right,
Why else would this be such a sudden diversion in
the plan from Prince Andrew. The scandal is not good
for the monarchy and it's certainly not good for public
(10:16):
perception of the monarchy. So it's my understanding that Prince
Charles and the Queen wanted this matter solved quickly so
they can get on with their work and highlight the
good that the monarchy still does. And that's what it's
always about. And another thing that I find so infuriating.
It's always about the monarchy. This the monarchy that, oh,
the good the monarchy does, the good, this person, what
(10:38):
about the bad? So we're just gonna wrap ourselves in
our armor of charitable services and say, ah, well, it
doesn't matter if we do anything bad, because look, we've
done all of this good stuff. Well guess what, Just
like the Onion Knight, even though you do something good,
you still have to be punished for the things that
you did wrong. Just ask standa Barathian. But we don't
(11:01):
have that going on here. There's no accountability, none of that. Ever,
when it comes to people like Prince Andrew and the
royal family, well look, do you really think they care
about these survivors of these girls? They look at them
as a nuisance. And you can tell by the reaction
that the Crown has had for all this time. You know,
(11:23):
the Queen should have forced his hand a long time ago. Folks.
The deal does avoid a trial that would have brought
further embarrassment to the monarchy. Well, how could that be possible?
I thought Prince Andrew never met her, they had never
seen each other, they have never associated, So how could
it possibly bring more embarrassment to the monarchy. It never happened,
(11:46):
right according to Prince Andrew. And this is a guy
whose word is bond. This is a man who doesn't lie.
This is an honorable man. Just ask him. So why
wouldn't anyone believe him? Why wouldn't anyone want to, you know,
have him go to trial and clear his name. Oh
that's right, because he wouldn't clear his name, he would
make a bigger fool of himself and put even more
(12:07):
shit on the face of the monarchy. Besides the undisclosed
donation to Virginia's charity, the court filing revealed that Andrew
acknowledges she suffered as an abuse victim. It did not
specify whether Roberts would personally receive money as part of
the settlement. We all know the deal, okay, And it
(12:29):
doesn't shock me that Fox News would try and put
a little nice spin on it for their boy, the Prince.
I mean, does that shock anybody at this point when
you talk about these sorts of news outlets Fox and
CNN and MSNBC and all the rest of them. All
they're good at at this point is getting people all
gassed up to hate each other, getting people all gassed
(12:50):
up to hate their cousin Joe, when in reality, all
they're doing is protecting the scumbag friends that they have
in these high positions. According to The Telegraph, Andrew will
pay Roberts more than twelve million pounds or more than
sixteen million dollars, using money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth
(13:10):
the Second. The outlet noted that the reigning monarch ninety
five has privately funded her son's legal fight to the
tune of millions, and will now partly fund the settlement
to avoid having the case overshadow her Platinum jubilee this year.
That's nice have that kind of money. You're like, ah,
you know what, I don't need this disgusting sort of
(13:32):
you know, people looking in on us and this, you know,
spotlight on us during my jubilee celebration. So let's just
pay out an obscene amount of money to keep things
quiet about sexual assault and RPE. That's the way these
people live their lives. They live a life of non
disclosure agreements, a life of backroom dealings, and a life
(13:55):
of being able to do whatever they want because their
bank account says. And I don't know about you, folks,
but I'm pretty tired of living in a world like that.
The Queen's contribution to the settlement will reportedly come from
her private duchy of Lancaster estate. And remember when all
of this was happening, there was a lot of people
(14:16):
that were like, the Queen's not paying for Andrews legal fees. Yes,
yes she was. I said she was then and I'll
say she was now. There's no doubt this dude can't
afford Brettler. There's no way he's affording a singer and
Bretler and the rest of them. Of course, the queen
was paying for his defense. Folks. It is estimated that
(14:38):
the money from the settlement would be split into three
unequal portions, with Roberts, her lawyers, and charities each taking
a piece. Oh, of course, the lawyers have to get
something right. Don't even get me started on the lawyers.
Oh era pro bono. Remember I was talking about this too.
Nothing's ever done for free. These lawyers, they knew that
they'd increase their profile. They knew that they would, you know,
(15:00):
get more people through their doors if they did a
good job here. But you better believe there's no lawyer
leaving any money on the back end. It's just like
if you get into like a car accident, right, that
first offer they give you is always garbage. I got
into a car accident, I don't know, five years ago,
six years ago now, and there's pretty bad car accident, right,
(15:21):
So the first settlement offer that they tried to give
me was absolutely ridiculous. So I told them, yeah, right,
zero chance, my friends go back and get something better.
And you know, these lawyers, of course, on the back
end of these kinds of settlements they're getting paid and
it's no different here. I don't think the queen would
(15:41):
be paying the settlement money, said Bearfield. However, she could
possibly be paying some of the funds to the charity.
It just wouldn't sit well with people if the Queen
contributed financially to the settlement itself. But the situation does
put her in a tricky spot as a queen and
as a mother. Every parent wants to help their children,
but in her case, she has all of the public's
(16:03):
eyes on her. I mean, that's all fine and well,
and I agree, you know, every parent does want to
help their children, but really in a situation like this,
you're worried about that. No, Prince Andrew, he shouldn't even
be a question at this point. This dude should be
forgotten about and exiled to the furthest flung province in
(16:24):
the Empire. While Andrew may be eager to put the
case behind him, Barfield suspected that his woes are far
from over. We truly don't know if in time Virginia
will write a book, she explained. And right before Andrew
agreed to settle, there was a massage therapist who regularly
treated the prince that alleged he was a constant sex
(16:46):
pest to her. That was quite shocking. So it makes
me wonder how many more people would come forward with
their own stories. Will this truly go away for Prince
Andrew once the settlement is over? Will more people come
forward and speak out or sell their stories to the press.
This is something I've talked about a lot. And when
you see the holes in the hull of the boat,
(17:10):
more people are willing to attack it right And when
the dam has one little hole in it, eventually it
leads to a big bursting situation. And that's what we
were seeing here. Nobody ever came out and spoke against
Prince Andrew because he was in such a position of
power and they knew they couldn't knock him off of
his perch. So now that he is showing that he's vulnerable,
(17:32):
people are going to come out of the woodwork and
they're going to talk about their relationship or their experience
with Prince Andrew as well. Bearfield also pointed out that
Andrew shouldn't expect the public to welcome him back with
open arms. They not going to welcome him back at all,
open arms, closed arms, no arms. It doesn't matter. Dude
(17:54):
is not welcomed. People don't think of him very positively here.
She said. They feel that he should have been more
remorseful earlier. He certainly lost a lot of supporters in
the UK. The lawyer we also spoke to shared that
the only reason people settle is that they think they're
going to get caught. Yeah, no shit, oh on breaking news.
(18:15):
The sky is blue and water is wet. You don't
settle out of court for this kind of dough if
you're innocent. Come on, man, And it's not like this
dude's super rich, right, his mom is, his family is,
but he's not. He's a grifting a lowlife. So it's
not like this dude has a bunch of money where
he's just like, all right, just pay this settlement and
(18:36):
let's keep it quiet. This is ruinous for him. Many
have wondered if the British monarchy could survive the public scandal.
Bearfield is optimistic. Oh, of course she is. I'm guessing
Bearfield is one of these royalists, right. Oh, we love
to claim no madaw Chay does. When it comes to
the royal family, life goes on and they like to
(18:59):
exemplify that with their work, she said. Shortly after the
Queen did her first in person public engagement since the settlement.
While her family may be in turmoil, the Queen obviously
wanted to put a positive image that the head of
the household is carrying on. It is all about public perception,
and I think she wanted to put that positive image
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across that the monarchy does have a future and it
will carry on. The fact that this lady has to
say this and point this out is troubling and should
be very, very concerning to the monarchy. I've said it
once and I say it again. This is the beginning
of the end for these people, in my opinion. Now,
I don't know how long it'll take, but I have
(19:42):
a feeling we're going to see a very pared down
royal family in the future. Now I don't know if
they're going to be obsolete or anything like that, but
you look at the other royal families in Europe and
I think that's the fate that the monarchy is on
its way to Roberts thirty eight suit Andrew in August,
(20:03):
the American accused the British royal of sexually abusing her
while she traveled with Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew strenuously denied Robert's
allegations and attempted to get the lawsuit tossed earlier this
year and again. An innocent man fights this tooth and nail. Right.
You bring evidence, you bring corroborating witnesses, people who were
(20:25):
with you, whatever it might be. But innocent men certainly
don't settle for a sum of money such as this.
According to the statement, Andrew acknowledged that Epstein trafficked countless
young girls over many years, and said he regrets his
association with Epstein and commends the bravery of Miss Roberts
and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others.
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He also pledged to support the victims of sex trafficking
as part of demonstrating his regret. Well, you could start
by demonstrating your regret by shutting up and going away.
Nobody wants your help, Nobody wants you to be part
of any charity. Nobody wants you working with sex trafficked victims.
You really think one of these women, one of these girls,
who has been caught up in a human trafficking operation,
(21:11):
wants to show up and have Prince Andrew there as
the keynote speaker, or this idiot's a picture up on
the wall because he's a patron Nobody wants to see it. Andrew,
who had already stepped back from royal duties, was stripped
of his honorary honorary military titles and roles in leadership
of various charities known as royal patronages. He also can
(21:35):
no longer use the title His Royal Highness in official settings. Well,
isn't that nice? Prince Andrew got a little spanking. Can't
use his royal title no more? Well he can go
and console himself and go hang out with his teddy bears.
Roberts asserted that she met Andrew while she travels frequently
with Epstein between two thousand and two thousand and two,
(21:57):
when her lawyers maintained she was on call for Epstein
for sexual purposes and was lent out to other powerful men,
including Andrew. This sounds about right. You know Bill Richardson,
Glenn Dubin, Les Wexner, you know George Mitchell. We can
go on. Those are all other names that have been
(22:18):
pointed out by Virginia for not only enabling Jeffrey Epstein,
but also taking part. And you would think that if
the authorities and the quarter taking her allegations in these
other instances seriously, that they'd be looking at these people
as well. Her lawsuit said she still suffers significant emotional
and psychological distress and harm. She has alleged she had
(22:40):
sex with Andrew three times in London, during a two
thousand and one trip, at Epstein's New York mansion when
she was seventeen, and in the Virgin Islands when she
was eighteen. Andrew repeatedly denied Robert's allegations and has said
he can't recall every meeting her. Although a photograph of
Roberts and Andrew together in a London townhouse house, his
(23:00):
arm around her bear midriff, was included in Robert's lawsuit
against him. Well, yeah, that's the picture that sunk them folks, right.
No matter what anybody else says, the facts certainly lead
us to the destination of that picture being the biggest
factor in Andrew's downfall. Inconsistencies in her statement statements over
(23:23):
the years that would have been highlighted by Andrew's attorneys
at trial may have motivated motivated her in part to settle,
though She has explained them as innocent mistakes that occur
when recalling traumatic events years later. Oh god, the author
of this article has no idea what they're talking about. Wow,
Holy cow. So if that was the case, the inconsistencies
(23:45):
that you're talking about here, don't you think that Prince
Andrew would have pushed the issue if there was all
these inconsistencies that they could have exploited. You don't think
Prince Andrew's two thousand dollars an hour lawyers would find them.
There weren't there, folks. That's what it comes down to,
all right, all the bes, all the rhetoric, you could
throw it all out, look at the results, and that
(24:06):
is what matters. Andrew served in the Royal Navy for
two decades, including as a helicopter pilot during the nineteen
eighty two Falklands War. The honorary military roles he lost
included several overseas ones, such as his title as Colonel
in Chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Logistic Regiment.
(24:27):
I'm sure that they're just so absolutely broken up inside
that Prince Andrew is no longer their patron. He spent
years combating concerns about his links with Epstein, the US
financier paedophile who took his life allegedly at age sixty
six in twenty nineteen and a Manhattan federal lockup while
awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges. Epstein's longtime companion
(24:52):
Yo the author of this article is just whack and
Fox News. I mean, obviously, this is why I hardly
ever read anything from Fox News on the show, because
it's literally gobbage. But I mean, you can't at least
call her what she is, a human trafficker. A settlement
of the Andrew lawsuit would follow deals reached by Roberts
years ago to resolve separate lawsuits against Maxwell and Epstein.
(25:16):
It was recently revealed that Epstein settled for a five
hundred thousand dollars Well, we all know about the settlements,
and we all know that it wasn't going to be
the end. There was so much more there and so
many more people involved, that it was just the beginning.
And we see that now, all these years later, all
(25:37):
of these lawsuits working their way through the system, and
according to reports, we still have an impaneled grand jury
looking at co conspirators. So for Prince Andrew, and all
of his thoughts and his dreams of coming back to
public life. I'd put a hold on all of that,
mister Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, because because that
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eventuality is never going to come to fruition. All right, folks,
that's gonna do it for this morning's update. Throughout the day,
you'll have some context episodes coming your way, and then
I will be back later on tonight with the evening update.
If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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