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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the

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Epstein Chronicles. The monarchy in the UK has been able

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to weather some serious storms throughout its history, including the

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abdication of Edward the Eighth, But of all the scandals

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that the monarchy has faced, the Prince Andrew scandal is

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perhaps the most damaging. And if we're listening to Andrew Lowney,

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he says that what's going on with Prince Andrew overshadows

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the abdication of Edward the Eighth, And look, it's certainly

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more embarrassing. Right With Edward the eighth, he abdicated and

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they moved on. But with Prince Andrew, this dude's hanging

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around like a barnacle on the bottom of a boat,

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and he just won't go away. So every single time

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some new information comes out, the monarchy's forced to deal

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with it all over again. So basically, what I'm telling

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you is that Andrew is like the human form of herpes.

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Even when you use the voweltrax or whatever medicine they

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have these days for it, it's gonna come back eventually.

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That's the case with Prince Andrew. The fact that they

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babied him, the fact that they let him get away

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with the bullshit for so long has now led us

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to this point and it's become a gigantic, festering wound

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right in the belly of the monarchy. And according to

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Andrew Lowney, it might be a wound that is mortal.

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So today we have an article from the Deli mel

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and the headline Andrew mount Batton Winsor links to Epstein's

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scandal is more of a crisis for royals than abdication

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of Edward the Eighth. Biographer Andrew Lowney claims this article

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was authored by Mark Duell. Andrew mount Batten Winsor's links

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to Jeffrey epstein have given the royal family a bigger

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crisis than Edward the Eight's abdication, a biographer claim today.

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Andrew Lowney said that public anger is greater about the

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former prince's behavior and his links to the pedophile financier

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than when the King stepped down in nineteen thirty six. Well, look,

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the King stepped down, he did the right thing, and

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he faded from publicity, right, faded from the public view.

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But Prince Andrew, he tried to hold on till the

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very end, and not only that he continued to lie

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about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way up

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until the arrest, and I'm sure he was still lying

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about it to the police. Do you really think that

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Prince Andrew at this point is going to tell you

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the truth or that he's even capable of telling the truth,

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because I just don't believe it. I don't think he's

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capable of telling the truth even. And you know what

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they say, right, when you tell a lie for so long,

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you start thinking that shit's true. And with Prince Andrew,

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he's probably convinced himself he's done nothing wrong. And that

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whole entire mindset was enabled by the Queen for all

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those years. She let Prince Andrew, or should I say

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the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, get away with

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pretty much whatever you wanted, and that led to the

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behavior that we're seeing here. Mister Lowney, who wrote entitled

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The Rise and Fall of the House of York, compared

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current events to when Edward abdicated to marry us divorcee,

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while as Simpson, Oh, what a scandal. He wants to

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marry a divorcee. What a scandal? Imagine being the king

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and not being allowed to marry whoever you wanted to marry.

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He had to marry some stuffy ass noble woman or whatever.

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Sounds like a lot of fun. What's the point being

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the king If I can't marry who I want to

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marry and do what I want to do, you know,

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within the bounds of reason, obviously, But I'm talking about

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my personal life. If I want to marry Willa from

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down the block, who I grew up with, then that's

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who I should marry. I think these ancient customs should

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be left in ancient times. The author told the Oxford

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Literary Festival yesterday that Edward's abdication was a three day

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wonder and the public did not engage with the full

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details at the time. Mister Lowney also cited how edward

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support of Nazis was not yet common knowledge, and how

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he resigned voluntarily to marry a woman that he loved,

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reported the Times. So look, I'm not too familiar with

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his support of Nazis and whatnot. I know that there

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was support by Edward, but I'm not some historian who

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can go deep into the weeds and tell you one

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way or the other. Now, if you're going to support

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the nazis probably a good idea to abdicate, right, But

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if you're abdicating because you're in love with some woman

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who is not a royal, then I don't even find

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that to be a scandal, to be honest with you,

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It's just like that whole Harry and Megan Markle thing.

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I really just don't care. The inner workings of the

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royal family do not interests me one bit. What interests

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me is how their given protection from the law that

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the rest of us would never receive. That's what interests me.

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The biographer also wrote Trader King the Scandalous Exile of

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the Duke and Duchess. A Winsor compared this to Andrew

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being stripped of his royal titles and honors after allegations

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continued to be revealed about his relationship with Epstein. And

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if anybody should have been stripped, if anybody should have

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lost their titles, certainly Andrew. Look, I have no empathy

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for it. This man had every benefit in the whole

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entire world. Imagine having everything Andrew had just given to

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you and squandering it all and then crying about how

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it's unfair or how you're being targeted. Think about how

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hard you work every single day to put food on

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the table. Your kids have everything they need, everything they want.

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Make sure your life is as comfortable as possible, and

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think about how expensive it all is. Then imagine waking

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up one day and being the son of the Queen

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of England. Can you imagine how different in your life

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would be? Do you really think you'd sit around thinking about, Oh,

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I want to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein, or I

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don't have enough as the Queen's son, I need more.

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It's so absurd to me, and I think it makes

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me so mad because I know how hard everybody works

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to get where they're going, and then you have a

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guy like this that just takes it all for granted.

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Andrews sixty six was released under investigation on February nineteenth,

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after being held for eleven hours in police custody on

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suspicion of misconduct in public office. The former Duke of

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York was also stripped of his royal title and evicted

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from Royal Lodge and Winsor by his brother in the

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wake of the Epstein scandal. And look, that's all great,

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that's awesome, but it should have happened a long time ago,

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and the fact that they coddled this dude and let

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him get away with all of this by enabling him

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for all these years is a big problem. And at

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some point the royal family is going to have to

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face it head on because if they don't, it's just

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going to keep festering like we've seen over all these years.

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So they have to just deal with it at some point.

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And finally the King got to that point, right, enough

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is enough. I can't take this anymore. This is the

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kind of thing that can ruin everything, basically, so I

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have to cut eight and Prince Andrew was effectively voted

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off the island. But mister Lowney said it was unlikely

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that Andrew will be prosecuted because the Royals will not

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want him in court, saying everyone knew about this. Why

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am I being penalized? And I think that is the

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very likely scenario. Unfortunately, you know the UK, they're spinning

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their wheels here and the optics are good right now.

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But are those optics going to remain the same if

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they don't prosecute Mandelssohn and Prince Andrew. We all know

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the story and we all know how the UK has

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been very hesitant when it comes to enforcing justice surrounding

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Epstein in his crimes, so I remain skeptical that we're

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going to see real action here. Andrew was spotted over

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the weekend for the first time since his arrest, cutting

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a solitary figure as he took his dog for a

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walk around Sandringham. The King's disgraced brother wandered about the

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countryside for ninety minutes near Wood Farm, part of Charles

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Estate in Norfolk, where he now lives. Talk about a

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fall from grace. This dude went from gallivanting all over

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the world, enjoying the hospitality of the most famous, the

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most powerful, now walking around with the dog in Norfolk

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for ninety minutes. And that's the extent of his socializing. Well,

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you know what they say about making your own bed right.

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It's the first time that Andrew had been pictured since

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photos were taken of him slumped in the rear of

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a range rover following his arrest four weeks ago. Andrew

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appears to be desperately clinging onto his royal styling. However,

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hundreds of removal boxes stamped HRH office, HRH sitting room

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and even HRH meeting room were last delivered to his

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new abode. This guy just won't give up. The party's over, buddy.

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You're not the Prince anymore. You're not a royal. You're

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about as royal as me. And if you were a

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regular person, your ass would probably already be in jail.

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And the only reason you're not is because you're the

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Queen's son. But short of that, your bitch ass would

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be in jail already. The five bedroom house has been

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hastily upgraded in recent days, with security, fencing, CCTV and

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broadband installed, as well as works carried out on the grounds.

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Last week, Scotland Yards chief said it was investigating a

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whole range of sexual allegations against Andrew to see if

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they merit a criminal investigation. Andrew was accused of having

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sex with Jeffrey Epstein, victim for Junior Roberts, three times,

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including when she was seventeen after being traffic by the

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pedophile financier. The former prince was arrested last month on

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suspicion of misconduct and public office over claims that he

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shared sensitive information with Epstein when he was the UK's

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Trade envoy, but Andrew has not been arrested in relation

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to any sex offenses. Well that's true, but now that

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they opened the door, we all know they're going to

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walk through, right, And that's what's going on now. Behind

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the scenes. They're going through all the evidence, whatever they

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can find, whatever they have, and they're going to try

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and figure out if any other criminal charges are warranted.

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So we'll see what happens, but like usual, I remain

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skeptical that we're going to get any real justice here.

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So like all the other stories we're keeping an eye on,

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we'll keep an eye on this one as the investigation

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into the former Prince Andrew continues to grow. All the

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