December 7, 2025 • 22 mins
In the aftermath of Prince Andrew’s settlement with Virginia Roberts, the Royal Family made a conspicuously cold display of distance when his birthday arrived. There were no public tributes, no coordinated social-media posts, and no ceremonial acknowledgments that normally accompany a senior royal’s milestone. Instead, the palace treated the day like any other on the calendar, signaling that Andrew’s legal entanglements and the shadow cast by the Epstein scandal had completely severed his standing within the institution. What would once have been an orchestrated celebration was reduced to silence, reflecting the family’s desire to avoid further public backlash.
Behind palace walls, the message was just as clear. Andrew’s siblings were reportedly unwilling to associate themselves with him publicly, and senior courtiers pushed to eliminate any appearances that could be construed as support. His birthday became a symbol of his isolation: a stark contrast to the pomp he once enjoyed. The quiet freeze-out underscored an unspoken reality—Andrew’s settlement had not closed the book; it had made him a permanent liability. The Royal Family’s deliberate absence of acknowledgment showed how decisively they were moving to protect the institution by sidelining him entirely.
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Behind palace walls, the message was just as clear. Andrew’s siblings were reportedly unwilling to associate themselves with him publicly, and senior courtiers pushed to eliminate any appearances that could be construed as support. His birthday became a symbol of his isolation: a stark contrast to the pomp he once enjoyed. The quiet freeze-out underscored an unspoken reality—Andrew’s settlement had not closed the book; it had made him a permanent liability. The Royal Family’s deliberate absence of acknowledgment showed how decisively they were moving to protect the institution by sidelining him entirely.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
So Prince Andrew has a birthday coming up, and usually
when this guy has a birthday, it's a whole big
ass affair, pomp, circumstance, bells, literally whistles, all of it.
(00:21):
But not this year. That ship is sailed and the
Prince of Nothing is not going to be celebrated anymore. Now. Remember,
this is a man who was used to jet setting
around the world with billionaires, one hundred millionaires and other undesirables,
doing whatever he wanted and living the life of a king,
(00:47):
and now all of that is over for him. I
get it. He's not going to prison, none of that,
and obviously that would be nice, but that's not reality.
The fact is though his days of being some jet
setting prints, his days of stations like ABC quashing stories
to keep access to him, those days are over and
(01:10):
he's going to have to live in shame for the
rest of his life. Everywhere he goes, people are gonna
look at him and say to themselves, what a sick prick,
what a disgusting human being. And that's going to be
his legacy, That's what he's going to be leaving for
the future historians to read about. When they read about
(01:31):
the royal family and they talk about the queen's reign,
can you imagine how the historians are going to look
back on Prince Andrew and his behavior. So is it
any shock that Uncle Touchy is not getting himself the
usual type of birthday party that he's used to now
instead of the whole entire state birthday party. Ha ha ha.
(01:56):
You'll be lucky to get duly Dul from the Boulevard Mall,
the magician guy, to come over and make you balloon animals.
He doesn't even want to associate with you, So go
and eat your cake by yourself, and instead of a
birthday hat, you should have to wear a dunce cap
while you're doing it. Now, obviously, I'm sure his family
or close family is going to celebrate with him, but
(02:19):
the thought of the royal family or anyone trying to
shove this down people's throats, meaning his birthday in like
a public display, is absolutely obscene to think about. So
I'm glad that they're able to at least read the
temperature well enough to know that that wouldn't be a
good idea. The days of Prince Andrew popping up, showing up,
(02:41):
hanging out, being on the balcony, as they say, those
days are over. And the sooner that he recognizes that
realizes that, and the sooner that his five surrogates recognize that,
the better off everybody's going to be. So go and
eat your cake, wear your dunce hat and shut up.
You're an absolute embarrassment to the nation, to your family
(03:06):
and especially to your ninety five year old mother. All right,
so today we have an article from the Scottish Son
dealing with Prince Andrew and this birthday situation. This article
was authored by Anthony Blair and the headline out in
the Colt Prince Andrew facing birthday misery with no flags,
(03:29):
no bells, no celebration as shame duke shunned over settlement. Well, yeah,
what should it be? Should everybody be falling over themselves
to try and set up a birthday party for this guy?
Should his nephew fly back home from America to you know,
be the patron saint of Uncle Touchy or something? What
(03:49):
do they expect to happen? Nobody wants to hang out
with you, Nobody wants to come over for your birthday party? Bro,
you're on your own. The famously part what loving prince
is likely to be shunned in the wake of his
humiliating twelve million pounds settlement with his accuser, Virginia Roberts. Yeah,
(04:09):
that sounds about right. Again, I highly doubt anyone of
any note wants to come hang out as his birthday party.
Imagine the paparazzi waiting outside to see a list of
the people that are coming to hang out with the
shame Duke. I am pretty sure that there aren't people
falling over themselves to do that. The House of Lords,
I'm sure are not too keen on being around Prince
(04:32):
Andrew at this point. Andrew faces life as a royal
pariah after being stripped of his titles and duties amid
the scandal. This week, the Duke of York agreed to
a huge settlement with his accuser rather than face the
humiliation of a drawn out court case during his mother's
platinum Jubilee year. And they'll use that as an excuse, right, Ah, Well, look,
(04:55):
the reason Prince Andrew came to terms here is because
it was the jubilee year. Man, and he's an honorable guy,
you know, he wants to make sure that his mom
has a good celebration. Meanwhile, back here in reality, we're
all saying to ourselves, well, he shouldn't have been paldling
around with Jeffrey Epstein. Huh, he shouldn't have been best
friends with Glen Maxwell, and he certainly shouldn't have been
(05:16):
hanging out with Virginia Roberts over at Maxwell's house. The
Queen Charles and Prince William are believed to have forced
the Duke to settle and step back almost entirely from
public life. So you have the Queen, the King in waiting,
and the Crown Prince telling the Prince of Nothing that
(05:36):
it's time for him to go. You're not the Crown Prince,
You're not the King in waiting. You, my friend, are
the clown Prince. And you got to take your circus
act on the road. Yeah, that's a great idea. You know,
it just came to me, folks, Why doesn't he join
the circus? Prince Andrew aka the Joe Exotic of the
Windsor family can join the circus and be part of
(05:57):
the traveling group. He'd be great a carnival barker. His
reputation lies in tatters, and royal experts have warned his
chances of being welcome back into public life are extremely slim.
Yeah we're talking slim as slim could be. However slim is.
That's how slim the chances are for this dude to
(06:19):
come back into public life. I just can't see it.
I can't see the British public accepting it, the public
of the UK accepting any of it. This year's birthday
will likely see none of the previous celebrations and events
that have marked Andrews's birthdays. It is also a far
(06:40):
cry from previous celebrations thrown by the Duke for both
his own birthday and those of Fergie, Beatrice and Eugenie.
You know, I always found it odd when people throw
their own birthday parties. It's a bit vain. No, shouldn't
somebody be throwing the birthday party for you? It's your birthday?
Why are you shelling out all of this money? Don't
like my friends that much that I'm gonna shell out
(07:02):
a bunch of money for you guys to come and
drink all my booze and shit. So I always I
always found it weird growing up. Oh yeah, I'm throwing
myself a party, a birthday party. What shouldn't your friends
do that for you or your girlfriend or something. So
it's always been weird to me. And you know, when
Andrew's throwing a birthday party doesn't really matter because he's
not paying for it. He's going to the bank of Mummy. Hey, Mummy,
(07:23):
I need to have a birthday party. Do you think
you can shell over a few shillings? It is all
excuse me. Traditionally the bells have been rung at Westminster Abbey,
you'll mark the birthdays of all the senior royals. But
this year the famous peals will not be heard, with
Andrew expecting a far more restrained affair. Oh poor baby,
(07:47):
He's not gonna have the bells rang for him. How's
he ever gonna survive? How is he ever gonna go
on with his life? A man as honorable as Andrew
suffering such such a dishonorable moment of the bells not
ringing for him. I mean it's almost as if he
was accused of sexual assault. Officials have insisted that the
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decision to not ring the bells for Andrew's birthday is
unrelated to the Duke of York's recent legal woes. A
spokesperson for Westminster Abbey told The Son Online the abbey
bells can be heard ringing out before services and in
celebration of church festivals, so of course it'll be the
spin right whatever they can do to put a happy
face on it for the Queen and the royal family,
(08:31):
and I get it, you know, people have a lot
of love for the Queen. The bells have also traditionally
been rung to mark the birthdays of senior members of
the royal family. Due to the financial challenges opposed to
the abbey by the COVID nineteen pandemic, and in consultation
(08:52):
with Buckingham Palace, the bells will now follow the tradition
of a royal gun salutes and will ring only for
the birthdays of the Age of Her Majesty the Queen
on the twenty first of April, her Majesty's official birthday
in June, and the birthday of His Royal Highness, the
Prince of Wales on November fourteenth. November. Well, that's a
(09:15):
good idea. Should only be ringing for the Queen, right,
not even old Nimrod over here, who's getting ready to
become the king. Whatever, his name is why why what
have they done to earn that? I mean, the Queen again,
I get it. Seventy years, it's a long ass rain.
She's done a lot for people, and people, you know,
(09:35):
have a huge liking of her, and I get it.
You know, I might not understand it, but I get
it now. The knucklehead son, on the other hand, Pretty
sure nobody likes this guy, right, isn't this the guy
that was married to Diana? Yeah? Pretty sure nobody likes
this dude. So he's coming into this whole entire thing
with his eyes wide open, understanding that he is not
(09:57):
the most liked guy in the world. And if he
shows up arm in arm with old uncle Touchy over here,
it's gonna be a long road. In recent years, the
Royal Family has moved with the times and taken to
releasing sweet birthday messages to senior royals on social media.
That's really more like it, right, You really need to
(10:17):
ring the bells of the church every time at someone's birthday?
What is this the year fourteen thirty seven? Come on
now for Andrew's sixtieth birthday. In twenty twenty, the official
Royal Family Instagram page shared two pictures of the Duke
of York, one of him as a baby and one
(10:37):
current picture. They shouldn't have done that either. Back then.
I was very critical of that then and I'd be
critical of it now as well. Look, this guy has
made his bed all right. There's no refurbishing his image
at this point, and if the Royal family tries to
do that, it is not going to work out well
for them. On alongside it. It was captioned on this
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day in nineteen sixty, Prince Andrew was born at Buckingham Palace,
the first child born to a reigning monarch for one
hundred and three years. You know, this guy, he had
a chance to really do something with his life. Imagine
if you would have used all of his connections and
all of his power, and most importantly his birth to
(11:23):
do good, to actually help people, not hang out with
people like Jeffrey Epstein. That's too much to ask, though, right,
you already have the whole entire world at your feet.
How dare you give a little bit back? The message
was controversial for some, coming just two months after the
Prince's car crash Newsnight interview, in which he told the
(11:43):
BBC's Emily Maitlis, he couldn't sweat and refused to apologize
for his association with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. And it
was a bad look then, it would be a bad
look now, and it's something that people should have criticized.
Shouldn't be rewarded for behavior like this. And if you
(12:04):
go off and you give an interview such as the
one that he gave to Emily Maylis, you really think
you should be rewarded by that. But you come home
and got yourself a whole pool party for you, got
yourself a carvel cake. Last year's birthday message was more
paired down. Was a more pared down affair, with the
Queen only sharing a message on Twitter, not on Instagram,
(12:26):
and scrapping the use of his official title of the
Duke of York. Also, rather than wish her favorite son
a happy birthday, the tweet read hashtag On this day
in nineteen sixty, the Queen was safely delivered of a son,
the first child born to a Ranning monarch since eighteen
fifty seven. I mean, think about how embarrassing this is
for his mom. She has to put out this statement
(12:49):
and can't even really mention her son and shit, all
because he can't keep his hands off of people, all
because he thinks it's a good idea to hang out
with one of the most prolific human trafficking duo in
modern times. So now his mom has to look bad,
the family has to look bad, and frankly, the whole
entire thing smells like one big giant pile is shit.
(13:14):
Her Majesty is pictured holding Prince Andrew in nineteen sixty
one on the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside the Duke
of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and the Queen Mother. Maybe she
was holding him upside down by his leg and that
explains why his brain don't work right. As well as
the Buckingham Palace picture, there was a photo of Andrew's
official birth announcement. However, the tone of the message seemed
(13:37):
to imply that Andrew's mother had effectively sacked him. Well,
she certainly did publicly, right, she wasn't going to, you know,
get too emotional, I guess in a public way there,
But she's still paying for his settlement, paid for the
lawyers and the whole thing, right, so public sacking, but
(13:59):
privately console would be my guest. This year, It is
suspected that Andrew's birthday may not be marked by the
Royal family at all. Royal commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti told his
son online it's a tricky one for the royal family
because they won't want to be seen as making a
fuss and drawing more attention to him in the very
(14:21):
moment he's in the spotlight for his out of court settlement.
I suspect any celebration will be done quietly and in private. Yeah,
like everybody else's birthday for the most part, you know,
like regular people. Go have your ice cream, go have
your cake. Shut up. You made it around the world
one more time. A great job. All right, We're all
gonna get there this year. Hopefully the family may want
(14:49):
to mark his birthday, but the general mood of the
nation certainly isn't one of celebration when it comes to
Prince Andrew. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace refused to confirm
or deny whether they will officially mark the Duke of
York's sixty second birthday. That when do they ever confirm anything.
They're more tight lip than anybody I've ever seen in
(15:10):
my life. Over there at the Palace. They're over there.
They got nothing to say to anybody about anything. They're
just like, nah, no comment, no comment. I refer to
the comment we made six months ago, bah comment. Ten
years ago, Sacradoiti went on. The Queen has already shunned
him in removing him from public royal life. And it
(15:33):
has been rumored that Prince Charles put his foot down
and insisted on Andrews settling quickly, and again, what are
you going to do? That guy's about to become the king.
Bro When that dude's the king, his word is bond.
And obviously it's not like the old days, you know
I always talk about, because if it was, he'd be
getting sent off on some kind of bad mission, sending
(15:54):
him off to some siege somewhere where he's going to
have over a rough time of it. But now all
you can do is make sure he's not in public life.
And his brother old numbnuts over here, Charles, there's no
way that he wants anything to do with Prince Andrew
on a personal level. They may wish him a happy
birthday in private, but I can't imagine they'd want to
(16:15):
do anything very public, any public, any public statement for example,
on social media would have to be quite perfunctory and
minimal so as not to make the royal family seem
insensitive to the issues surrounding sexual abuse. Just can it?
I mean, holy cow, here's an idea. The guy's gonna
survive if you don't wish him a happy birthday, okay.
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Royal expert Phil Dampire told The Son Online it would
be very surprising if he did anything lavish this year,
especially after handing over at least ten pounds. Yeah, I mean,
where's he gonna get the money to party? Mom? Again?
I hear that there's a great pizza place in Woking.
Maybe you should go there for your party. His cost
(16:59):
will on dabtedly be cut along with his celebrations, but
Fergie is likely to remain by his side. Oh great, perfect.
So I came to and I experienced all of this,
and all I got was this ridiculous wife, Fergie, you know,
like the T shirt. All I got was this stupid
T shirt. Same kind of deal. Right. By the time
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he gets to his seventieth birthday, his next landmark, it
may be that he has redeemed himself enough to have
a more elaborate affair, but that feels a very long
way off right now, zero chance. How can he redeem himself?
What's he going to do? Is he hopping on the
rocket ship to go and stop the asteroid that's going
smack into earth like an armageddon? What is he possibly
(17:45):
going to do to come back into society after what
we know? Mister Sacradoti added, I think it'll be very
hard for him to make a comeback from this. Eh. Yeah,
he's always denied the allegations made against him, but by
settling before the case reached court, he has also he
hasn't proven himself innocent. No, he has not, and now
(18:07):
obviously the burden of proof is on an accuser, right
at least in America, and I really feel like that
is something that's very important. But this isn't just he said,
she said. We're talking about years of court documentation, years
of depositions, and obviously a lot more that we don't
even know about. People have made up their minds about
(18:31):
the allegations which are of such a serious nature. He
may find it hard to ever redeem himself. I suspect
he'll keep a low profile from now on. Yeah, he's
going to be forced to do that. Previously the Royal
dub the Playboy Prince was pictured at a number of parties,
despite later claiming to Emily Maitlist that he didn't party much.
The dude was always partying, Always on a yacht, always
(18:52):
at a club, always somewhere, always partying, always with a
bunch of other rich people. His fortieth birthday was marked
by a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle hosted by the Queen,
dubbed Party of the Decades. Oh we all know about
that party, right, the Epstein party. You know, the fantastic
(19:14):
people that he invited to his party. But let him
tell and he'll say, well, it wasn't Epstein. I invited.
I invited Maxwell, as if that's any better. It was
a joint celebration to Mark Andrews fortieth, the Princess Royal's fiftieth,
and the Queen Mother's one hundredth and Princess Margaret's fiftieth.
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In twenty ten, Andrew's fiftieth birthday saw another huge party,
which later spilled over into Annabelle's nightclub in Mayfair. For
a guy that doesn't party, he sure seems to party
a lot. Although it isn't clear if the birthday boy
made an appearance. His daughter's Beatrice and Eugenie were both
out partying until three am, while Andrew's close confidant, glamorous
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Kazakh social light Koga Ashkenazi, was also seen at Annabel's.
It comes as MP's demand the source of Prince Andrew's
settlement cash, with Tory MP Jake Berry calling on the
royals to guarantee that no money whatsoever has come from
the public purse. I think that's a fair way to
go about this. Look, the Queen has been in office
(20:20):
for seventy years. I'm sure she's sitting on a pile
of dough like the dragon smog in the Lord of
the Rings movies. Pretty sure she has a nice couple
of nuggets dashed away. She can afford the hit. There
are calls for a probe in to Andrew's settlement cash
and the reason for this abrupt u turn just weeks
after insisting on a trial by Jerry to battle sex
(20:44):
trafficking charges. Prince Andrew's billionaire lifestyle has long been a
source of mystery, given that he receives only only around
three hundred thousand pounds a year in his allowance from
the Queen and naval pension only three hundred thousand pounds.
Imagine that's as much as like athletes make as you know,
league minimum, that's what they make. And what the what
(21:05):
is this dude doing to earn that money? It should
enrage everybody who is paying taxes over in the UK
for sure, and me is just as an interested spectator.
It's it's gross. This dude's getting three hundred thousand dollars
a year, I mean three hundred thousand pounds a year
for what. Meanwhile, how many people are out there starving
(21:26):
to death, how many people who are working two jobs
still can't make ends meet. It is all going to
come to an end for these types of people eventually,
it is. It's not sustainable at this point, and we're
starting to see the cracks appear. And Prince Andrew was
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probably the beginning of the end for the monarchy in
my opinion. Now I don't think it's going to be tomorrow,
but this will signal at the very least a huge
pairing down of the monarchy to make it resemble a
lot of the remaining you know kingdoms or kings or
queens in Europe, all of those royal families have really
(22:07):
been pared down, and I would expect the same fate
for the English royal family in the future. All Right, folks,
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over again.
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
So Prince Andrew has a birthday coming up, and usually
when this guy has a birthday, it's a whole big
ass affair, pomp, circumstance, bells, literally whistles, all of it.
(00:21):
But not this year. That ship is sailed and the
Prince of Nothing is not going to be celebrated anymore. Now. Remember,
this is a man who was used to jet setting
around the world with billionaires, one hundred millionaires and other undesirables,
doing whatever he wanted and living the life of a king,
(00:47):
and now all of that is over for him. I
get it. He's not going to prison, none of that,
and obviously that would be nice, but that's not reality.
The fact is though his days of being some jet
setting prints, his days of stations like ABC quashing stories
to keep access to him, those days are over and
(01:10):
he's going to have to live in shame for the
rest of his life. Everywhere he goes, people are gonna
look at him and say to themselves, what a sick prick,
what a disgusting human being. And that's going to be
his legacy, That's what he's going to be leaving for
the future historians to read about. When they read about
(01:31):
the royal family and they talk about the queen's reign,
can you imagine how the historians are going to look
back on Prince Andrew and his behavior. So is it
any shock that Uncle Touchy is not getting himself the
usual type of birthday party that he's used to now
instead of the whole entire state birthday party. Ha ha ha.
(01:56):
You'll be lucky to get duly Dul from the Boulevard Mall,
the magician guy, to come over and make you balloon animals.
He doesn't even want to associate with you, So go
and eat your cake by yourself, and instead of a
birthday hat, you should have to wear a dunce cap
while you're doing it. Now, obviously, I'm sure his family
or close family is going to celebrate with him, but
(02:19):
the thought of the royal family or anyone trying to
shove this down people's throats, meaning his birthday in like
a public display, is absolutely obscene to think about. So
I'm glad that they're able to at least read the
temperature well enough to know that that wouldn't be a
good idea. The days of Prince Andrew popping up, showing up,
(02:41):
hanging out, being on the balcony, as they say, those
days are over. And the sooner that he recognizes that
realizes that, and the sooner that his five surrogates recognize that,
the better off everybody's going to be. So go and
eat your cake, wear your dunce hat and shut up.
You're an absolute embarrassment to the nation, to your family
(03:06):
and especially to your ninety five year old mother. All right,
so today we have an article from the Scottish Son
dealing with Prince Andrew and this birthday situation. This article
was authored by Anthony Blair and the headline out in
the Colt Prince Andrew facing birthday misery with no flags,
(03:29):
no bells, no celebration as shame duke shunned over settlement. Well, yeah,
what should it be? Should everybody be falling over themselves
to try and set up a birthday party for this guy?
Should his nephew fly back home from America to you know,
be the patron saint of Uncle Touchy or something? What
(03:49):
do they expect to happen? Nobody wants to hang out
with you, Nobody wants to come over for your birthday party? Bro,
you're on your own. The famously part what loving prince
is likely to be shunned in the wake of his
humiliating twelve million pounds settlement with his accuser, Virginia Roberts. Yeah,
(04:09):
that sounds about right. Again, I highly doubt anyone of
any note wants to come hang out as his birthday party.
Imagine the paparazzi waiting outside to see a list of
the people that are coming to hang out with the
shame Duke. I am pretty sure that there aren't people
falling over themselves to do that. The House of Lords,
I'm sure are not too keen on being around Prince
(04:32):
Andrew at this point. Andrew faces life as a royal
pariah after being stripped of his titles and duties amid
the scandal. This week, the Duke of York agreed to
a huge settlement with his accuser rather than face the
humiliation of a drawn out court case during his mother's
platinum Jubilee year. And they'll use that as an excuse, right, Ah, Well, look,
(04:55):
the reason Prince Andrew came to terms here is because
it was the jubilee year. Man, and he's an honorable guy,
you know, he wants to make sure that his mom
has a good celebration. Meanwhile, back here in reality, we're
all saying to ourselves, well, he shouldn't have been paldling
around with Jeffrey Epstein. Huh, he shouldn't have been best
friends with Glen Maxwell, and he certainly shouldn't have been
(05:16):
hanging out with Virginia Roberts over at Maxwell's house. The
Queen Charles and Prince William are believed to have forced
the Duke to settle and step back almost entirely from
public life. So you have the Queen, the King in waiting,
and the Crown Prince telling the Prince of Nothing that
(05:36):
it's time for him to go. You're not the Crown Prince,
You're not the King in waiting. You, my friend, are
the clown Prince. And you got to take your circus
act on the road. Yeah, that's a great idea. You know,
it just came to me, folks, Why doesn't he join
the circus? Prince Andrew aka the Joe Exotic of the
Windsor family can join the circus and be part of
(05:57):
the traveling group. He'd be great a carnival barker. His
reputation lies in tatters, and royal experts have warned his
chances of being welcome back into public life are extremely slim.
Yeah we're talking slim as slim could be. However slim is.
That's how slim the chances are for this dude to
(06:19):
come back into public life. I just can't see it.
I can't see the British public accepting it, the public
of the UK accepting any of it. This year's birthday
will likely see none of the previous celebrations and events
that have marked Andrews's birthdays. It is also a far
(06:40):
cry from previous celebrations thrown by the Duke for both
his own birthday and those of Fergie, Beatrice and Eugenie.
You know, I always found it odd when people throw
their own birthday parties. It's a bit vain. No, shouldn't
somebody be throwing the birthday party for you? It's your birthday?
Why are you shelling out all of this money? Don't
like my friends that much that I'm gonna shell out
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a bunch of money for you guys to come and
drink all my booze and shit. So I always I
always found it weird growing up. Oh yeah, I'm throwing
myself a party, a birthday party. What shouldn't your friends
do that for you or your girlfriend or something. So
it's always been weird to me. And you know, when
Andrew's throwing a birthday party doesn't really matter because he's
not paying for it. He's going to the bank of Mummy. Hey, Mummy,
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I need to have a birthday party. Do you think
you can shell over a few shillings? It is all
excuse me. Traditionally the bells have been rung at Westminster Abbey,
you'll mark the birthdays of all the senior royals. But
this year the famous peals will not be heard, with
Andrew expecting a far more restrained affair. Oh poor baby,
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He's not gonna have the bells rang for him. How's
he ever gonna survive? How is he ever gonna go
on with his life? A man as honorable as Andrew
suffering such such a dishonorable moment of the bells not
ringing for him. I mean it's almost as if he
was accused of sexual assault. Officials have insisted that the
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decision to not ring the bells for Andrew's birthday is
unrelated to the Duke of York's recent legal woes. A
spokesperson for Westminster Abbey told The Son Online the abbey
bells can be heard ringing out before services and in
celebration of church festivals, so of course it'll be the
spin right whatever they can do to put a happy
face on it for the Queen and the royal family,
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and I get it, you know, people have a lot
of love for the Queen. The bells have also traditionally
been rung to mark the birthdays of senior members of
the royal family. Due to the financial challenges opposed to
the abbey by the COVID nineteen pandemic, and in consultation
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with Buckingham Palace, the bells will now follow the tradition
of a royal gun salutes and will ring only for
the birthdays of the Age of Her Majesty the Queen
on the twenty first of April, her Majesty's official birthday
in June, and the birthday of His Royal Highness, the
Prince of Wales on November fourteenth. November. Well, that's a
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good idea. Should only be ringing for the Queen, right,
not even old Nimrod over here, who's getting ready to
become the king. Whatever, his name is why why what
have they done to earn that? I mean, the Queen again,
I get it. Seventy years, it's a long ass rain.
She's done a lot for people, and people, you know,
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have a huge liking of her, and I get it.
You know, I might not understand it, but I get
it now. The knucklehead son, on the other hand, Pretty
sure nobody likes this guy, right, isn't this the guy
that was married to Diana? Yeah? Pretty sure nobody likes
this dude. So he's coming into this whole entire thing
with his eyes wide open, understanding that he is not
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the most liked guy in the world. And if he
shows up arm in arm with old uncle Touchy over here,
it's gonna be a long road. In recent years, the
Royal Family has moved with the times and taken to
releasing sweet birthday messages to senior royals on social media.
That's really more like it, right, You really need to
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ring the bells of the church every time at someone's birthday?
What is this the year fourteen thirty seven? Come on
now for Andrew's sixtieth birthday. In twenty twenty, the official
Royal Family Instagram page shared two pictures of the Duke
of York, one of him as a baby and one
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current picture. They shouldn't have done that either. Back then.
I was very critical of that then and I'd be
critical of it now as well. Look, this guy has
made his bed all right. There's no refurbishing his image
at this point, and if the Royal family tries to
do that, it is not going to work out well
for them. On alongside it. It was captioned on this
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day in nineteen sixty, Prince Andrew was born at Buckingham Palace,
the first child born to a reigning monarch for one
hundred and three years. You know, this guy, he had
a chance to really do something with his life. Imagine
if you would have used all of his connections and
all of his power, and most importantly his birth to
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do good, to actually help people, not hang out with
people like Jeffrey Epstein. That's too much to ask, though, right,
you already have the whole entire world at your feet.
How dare you give a little bit back? The message
was controversial for some, coming just two months after the
Prince's car crash Newsnight interview, in which he told the
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BBC's Emily Maitlis, he couldn't sweat and refused to apologize
for his association with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. And it
was a bad look then, it would be a bad
look now, and it's something that people should have criticized.
Shouldn't be rewarded for behavior like this. And if you
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go off and you give an interview such as the
one that he gave to Emily Maylis, you really think
you should be rewarded by that. But you come home
and got yourself a whole pool party for you, got
yourself a carvel cake. Last year's birthday message was more
paired down. Was a more pared down affair, with the
Queen only sharing a message on Twitter, not on Instagram,
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and scrapping the use of his official title of the
Duke of York. Also, rather than wish her favorite son
a happy birthday, the tweet read hashtag On this day
in nineteen sixty, the Queen was safely delivered of a son,
the first child born to a Ranning monarch since eighteen
fifty seven. I mean, think about how embarrassing this is
for his mom. She has to put out this statement
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and can't even really mention her son and shit, all
because he can't keep his hands off of people, all
because he thinks it's a good idea to hang out
with one of the most prolific human trafficking duo in
modern times. So now his mom has to look bad,
the family has to look bad, and frankly, the whole
entire thing smells like one big giant pile is shit.
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Her Majesty is pictured holding Prince Andrew in nineteen sixty
one on the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside the Duke
of Edinburgh, Princess Anne and the Queen Mother. Maybe she
was holding him upside down by his leg and that
explains why his brain don't work right. As well as
the Buckingham Palace picture, there was a photo of Andrew's
official birth announcement. However, the tone of the message seemed
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to imply that Andrew's mother had effectively sacked him. Well,
she certainly did publicly, right, she wasn't going to, you know,
get too emotional, I guess in a public way there,
But she's still paying for his settlement, paid for the
lawyers and the whole thing, right, so public sacking, but
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privately console would be my guest. This year, It is
suspected that Andrew's birthday may not be marked by the
Royal family at all. Royal commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti told his
son online it's a tricky one for the royal family
because they won't want to be seen as making a
fuss and drawing more attention to him in the very
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moment he's in the spotlight for his out of court settlement.
I suspect any celebration will be done quietly and in private. Yeah,
like everybody else's birthday for the most part, you know,
like regular people. Go have your ice cream, go have
your cake. Shut up. You made it around the world
one more time. A great job. All right, We're all
gonna get there this year. Hopefully the family may want
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to mark his birthday, but the general mood of the
nation certainly isn't one of celebration when it comes to
Prince Andrew. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace refused to confirm
or deny whether they will officially mark the Duke of
York's sixty second birthday. That when do they ever confirm anything.
They're more tight lip than anybody I've ever seen in
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my life. Over there at the Palace. They're over there.
They got nothing to say to anybody about anything. They're
just like, nah, no comment, no comment. I refer to
the comment we made six months ago, bah comment. Ten
years ago, Sacradoiti went on. The Queen has already shunned
him in removing him from public royal life. And it
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has been rumored that Prince Charles put his foot down
and insisted on Andrews settling quickly, and again, what are
you going to do? That guy's about to become the king.
Bro When that dude's the king, his word is bond.
And obviously it's not like the old days, you know
I always talk about, because if it was, he'd be
getting sent off on some kind of bad mission, sending
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him off to some siege somewhere where he's going to
have over a rough time of it. But now all
you can do is make sure he's not in public life.
And his brother old numbnuts over here, Charles, there's no
way that he wants anything to do with Prince Andrew
on a personal level. They may wish him a happy
birthday in private, but I can't imagine they'd want to
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do anything very public, any public, any public statement for example,
on social media would have to be quite perfunctory and
minimal so as not to make the royal family seem
insensitive to the issues surrounding sexual abuse. Just can it?
I mean, holy cow, here's an idea. The guy's gonna
survive if you don't wish him a happy birthday, okay.
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Royal expert Phil Dampire told The Son Online it would
be very surprising if he did anything lavish this year,
especially after handing over at least ten pounds. Yeah, I mean,
where's he gonna get the money to party? Mom? Again?
I hear that there's a great pizza place in Woking.
Maybe you should go there for your party. His cost
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will on dabtedly be cut along with his celebrations, but
Fergie is likely to remain by his side. Oh great, perfect.
So I came to and I experienced all of this,
and all I got was this ridiculous wife, Fergie, you know,
like the T shirt. All I got was this stupid
T shirt. Same kind of deal. Right. By the time
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he gets to his seventieth birthday, his next landmark, it
may be that he has redeemed himself enough to have
a more elaborate affair, but that feels a very long
way off right now, zero chance. How can he redeem himself?
What's he going to do? Is he hopping on the
rocket ship to go and stop the asteroid that's going
smack into earth like an armageddon? What is he possibly
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going to do to come back into society after what
we know? Mister Sacradoti added, I think it'll be very
hard for him to make a comeback from this. Eh. Yeah,
he's always denied the allegations made against him, but by
settling before the case reached court, he has also he
hasn't proven himself innocent. No, he has not, and now
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obviously the burden of proof is on an accuser, right
at least in America, and I really feel like that
is something that's very important. But this isn't just he said,
she said. We're talking about years of court documentation, years
of depositions, and obviously a lot more that we don't
even know about. People have made up their minds about
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the allegations which are of such a serious nature. He
may find it hard to ever redeem himself. I suspect
he'll keep a low profile from now on. Yeah, he's
going to be forced to do that. Previously the Royal
dub the Playboy Prince was pictured at a number of parties,
despite later claiming to Emily Maitlist that he didn't party much.
The dude was always partying, Always on a yacht, always
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at a club, always somewhere, always partying, always with a
bunch of other rich people. His fortieth birthday was marked
by a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle hosted by the Queen,
dubbed Party of the Decades. Oh we all know about
that party, right, the Epstein party. You know, the fantastic
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people that he invited to his party. But let him
tell and he'll say, well, it wasn't Epstein. I invited.
I invited Maxwell, as if that's any better. It was
a joint celebration to Mark Andrews fortieth, the Princess Royal's fiftieth,
and the Queen Mother's one hundredth and Princess Margaret's fiftieth.
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In twenty ten, Andrew's fiftieth birthday saw another huge party,
which later spilled over into Annabelle's nightclub in Mayfair. For
a guy that doesn't party, he sure seems to party
a lot. Although it isn't clear if the birthday boy
made an appearance. His daughter's Beatrice and Eugenie were both
out partying until three am, while Andrew's close confidant, glamorous
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Kazakh social light Koga Ashkenazi, was also seen at Annabel's.
It comes as MP's demand the source of Prince Andrew's
settlement cash, with Tory MP Jake Berry calling on the
royals to guarantee that no money whatsoever has come from
the public purse. I think that's a fair way to
go about this. Look, the Queen has been in office
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for seventy years. I'm sure she's sitting on a pile
of dough like the dragon smog in the Lord of
the Rings movies. Pretty sure she has a nice couple
of nuggets dashed away. She can afford the hit. There
are calls for a probe in to Andrew's settlement cash
and the reason for this abrupt u turn just weeks
after insisting on a trial by Jerry to battle sex
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trafficking charges. Prince Andrew's billionaire lifestyle has long been a
source of mystery, given that he receives only only around
three hundred thousand pounds a year in his allowance from
the Queen and naval pension only three hundred thousand pounds.
Imagine that's as much as like athletes make as you know,
league minimum, that's what they make. And what the what
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is this dude doing to earn that money? It should
enrage everybody who is paying taxes over in the UK
for sure, and me is just as an interested spectator.
It's it's gross. This dude's getting three hundred thousand dollars
a year, I mean three hundred thousand pounds a year
for what. Meanwhile, how many people are out there starving
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to death, how many people who are working two jobs
still can't make ends meet. It is all going to
come to an end for these types of people eventually,
it is. It's not sustainable at this point, and we're
starting to see the cracks appear. And Prince Andrew was
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probably the beginning of the end for the monarchy in
my opinion. Now I don't think it's going to be tomorrow,
but this will signal at the very least a huge
pairing down of the monarchy to make it resemble a
lot of the remaining you know kingdoms or kings or
queens in Europe, all of those royal families have really
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been pared down, and I would expect the same fate
for the English royal family in the future. All Right, folks,
that's gonna do it for tonight's update. Tomorrow morning, I'll
be back with the morning update, and until then, I
have a few more context episodes come in your way.
If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
at Bobby Kapuchi at ProtonMail dot com. That's Bo bby
(22:31):
c ap you Cci at ProtonMail dot com. You can
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found in the description box. All Right, folks, I hope
all of you have a great Friday night, and I
will be back tomorrow morning and we'll do it all
(22:52):
over again.
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