Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. The monarchy in the UK has been able
to weather some serious storms throughout its history, including the
abdication of Edward the Eighth, But of all the scandals
that the monarchy has faced, the Prince Andrew scandal is
perhaps the most damaging. And if we're listening to Andrew Lowney,
he says that what's going on with Prince Andrew overshadows
the abdication of Edward the Eighth, And look, it's certainly
more embarrassing. Right With Edward the eighth, he abdicated and
they moved on. But with Prince Andrew, this dude's hanging
around like a barnacle on the bottom of a boat,
and he just won't go away. So every single time
some new information comes out, the monarchy's forced to deal
with it all over again. So basically, what I'm telling
you is that Andrew is like the human form of herpes.
Even when you use the voweltrax or whatever medicine they
have these days for it, it's gonna come back eventually.
That's the case with Prince Andrew. The fact that they
babied him, the fact that they let him get away
with the bullshit for so long has now led us
to this point and it's become a gigantic, festering wound
right in the belly of the monarchy. And according to
Andrew Lowney, it might be a wound that is mortal.
So today we have an article from the Deli mel
and the headline Andrew mount Batton Winsor links to Epstein's
scandal is more of a crisis for royals than abdication
of Edward the Eighth. Biographer Andrew Lowney claims this article
was authored by Mark Duell. Andrew mount Batten Winsor's links
to Jeffrey epstein have given the royal family a bigger
crisis than Edward the Eight's abdication, a biographer claim today.
Andrew Lowney said that public anger is greater about the
former prince's behavior and his links to the pedophile financier
than when the King stepped down in nineteen thirty six. Well, look,
the King stepped down, he did the right thing, and
he faded from publicity, right, faded from the public view.
But Prince Andrew, he tried to hold on till the
very end, and not only that he continued to lie
about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way up
until the arrest, and I'm sure he was still lying
about it to the police. Do you really think that
Prince Andrew at this point is going to tell you
the truth or that he's even capable of telling the truth,
because I just don't believe it. I don't think he's
capable of telling the truth even. And you know what
they say, right, when you tell a lie for so long,
you start thinking that shit's true. And with Prince Andrew,
he's probably convinced himself he's done nothing wrong. And that
whole entire mindset was enabled by the Queen for all
those years. She let Prince Andrew, or should I say
the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, get away with
pretty much whatever you wanted, and that led to the
behavior that we're seeing here. Mister Lowney, who wrote entitled
The Rise and Fall of the House of York, compared
current events to when Edward abdicated to marry us divorcee,
while as Simpson, Oh, what a scandal. He wants to
marry a divorcee. What a scandal? Imagine being the king
and not being allowed to marry whoever you wanted to marry.
He had to marry some stuffy ass noble woman or whatever.
Sounds like a lot of fun. What's the point being
the king If I can't marry who I want to
marry and do what I want to do, you know,
within the bounds of reason, obviously, But I'm talking about
my personal life. If I want to marry Willa from
down the block, who I grew up with, then that's
who I should marry. I think these ancient customs should
be left in ancient times. The author told the Oxford
Literary Festival yesterday that Edward's abdication was a three day
wonder and the public did not engage with the full
details at the time. Mister Lowney also cited how edward
support of Nazis was not yet common knowledge, and how
he resigned voluntarily to marry a woman that he loved,
reported the Times. So look, I'm not too familiar with
his support of Nazis and whatnot. I know that there
was support by Edward, but I'm not some historian who
can go deep into the weeds and tell you one
way or the other. Now, if you're going to support
the nazis probably a good idea to abdicate, right, But
if you're abdicating because you're in love with some woman
who is not a royal, then I don't even find
that to be a scandal, to be honest with you,
It's just like that whole Harry and Megan Markle thing.
I really just don't care. The inner workings of the
royal family do not interests me one bit. What interests
me is how their given protection from the law that
the rest of us would never receive. That's what interests me.
The biographer also wrote Trader King the Scandalous Exile of
the Duke and Duchess. A Winsor compared this to Andrew
being stripped of his royal titles and honors after allegations
continued to be revealed about his relationship with Epstein. And
if anybody should have been stripped, if anybody should have
lost their titles, certainly Andrew. Look, I have no empathy
for it. This man had every benefit in the whole
entire world. Imagine having everything Andrew had just given to
you and squandering it all and then crying about how
it's unfair or how you're being targeted. Think about how
hard you work every single day to put food on
the table. Your kids have everything they need, everything they want.
Make sure your life is as comfortable as possible, and
think about how expensive it all is. Then imagine waking
up one day and being the son of the Queen
of England. Can you imagine how different in your life
would be? Do you really think you'd sit around thinking about, Oh,
I want to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein, or I
don't have enough as the Queen's son, I need more.
It's so absurd to me, and I think it makes
me so mad because I know how hard everybody works
to get where they're going, and then you have a
guy like this that just takes it all for granted.
Andrews sixty six was released under investigation on February nineteenth,
after being held for eleven hours in police custody on
suspicion of misconduct in public office. The former Duke of
York was also stripped of his royal title and evicted
from Royal Lodge and Winsor by his brother in the
wake of the Epstein scandal. And look, that's all great,
that's awesome, but it should have happened a long time ago,
and the fact that they coddled this dude and let
him get away with all of this by enabling him
for all these years is a big problem. And at
some point the royal family is going to have to
face it head on because if they don't, it's just
going to keep festering like we've seen over all these years.
So they have to just deal with it at some point.
And finally the King got to that point, right, enough
is enough. I can't take this anymore. This is the
kind of thing that can ruin everything, basically, so I
have to cut eight and Prince Andrew was effectively voted
off the island. But mister Lowney said it was unlikely
that Andrew will be prosecuted because the Royals will not
want him in court, saying everyone knew about this. Why
am I being penalized? And I think that is the
very likely scenario. Unfortunately, you know the UK, they're spinning
their wheels here and the optics are good right now.
But are those optics going to remain the same if
they don't prosecute Mandelssohn and Prince Andrew. We all know
the story and we all know how the UK has
been very hesitant when it comes to enforcing justice surrounding
Epstein in his crimes, so I remain skeptical that we're
going to see real action here. Andrew was spotted over
the weekend for the first time since his arrest, cutting
a solitary figure as he took his dog for a
walk around Sandringham. The King's disgraced brother wandered about the
countryside for ninety minutes near Wood Farm, part of Charles
Estate in Norfolk, where he now lives. Talk about a
fall from grace. This dude went from gallivanting all over
the world, enjoying the hospitality of the most famous, the
most powerful, now walking around with the dog in Norfolk
for ninety minutes. And that's the extent of his socializing. Well,
you know what they say about making your own bed right.
It's the first time that Andrew had been pictured since
photos were taken of him slumped in the rear of
a range rover following his arrest four weeks ago. Andrew
appears to be desperately clinging onto his royal styling. However,
hundreds of removal boxes stamped HRH office, HRH sitting room
and even HRH meeting room were last delivered to his
new abode. This guy just won't give up. The party's over, buddy.
You're not the Prince anymore. You're not a royal. You're
about as royal as me. And if you were a
regular person, your ass would probably already be in jail.
And the only reason you're not is because you're the
Queen's son. But short of that, your bitch ass would
be in jail already. The five bedroom house has been
hastily upgraded in recent days, with security, fencing, CCTV and
broadband installed, as well as works carried out on the grounds.
Last week, Scotland Yards chief said it was investigating a
whole range of sexual allegations against Andrew to see if
they merit a criminal investigation. Andrew was accused of having
sex with Jeffrey Epstein, victim for Junior Roberts, three times,
including when she was seventeen after being traffic by the
pedophile financier. The former prince was arrested last month on
suspicion of misconduct and public office over claims that he
shared sensitive information with Epstein when he was the UK's
Trade envoy, but Andrew has not been arrested in relation
to any sex offenses. Well that's true, but now that
they opened the door, we all know they're going to
walk through, right, And that's what's going on now. Behind
the scenes. They're going through all the evidence, whatever they
can find, whatever they have, and they're going to try
and figure out if any other criminal charges are warranted.
So we'll see what happens, but like usual, I remain
skeptical that we're going to get any real justice here.
So like all the other stories we're keeping an eye on,
we'll keep an eye on this one as the investigation
into the former Prince Andrew continues to grow. All the
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