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Mega Edition: How Former Prince Andrew Was Relegated To A Broke Squatter (6/27/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: Up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.
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So Prince Andrew's bitch ass has finally been cut off
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of his one point three million dollar allowance according to
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a new book. And if anyone has ever deserved to
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lose their dough, it's the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family.
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This dude's one of the biggest clowns in the history
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of clownhood and in fact, one of the biggest morons
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we have ever talked about on this podcast. Imagine being
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the Prince of England and squandering your whole life away
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the way this dude has because you wanted to go
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hang out with Jeffrey Epstein and abuse underage girls allegedly. Well,
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that's Prince Andrew in a nutshell. And then when he
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had the chance to make things right or as right
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as they could be, what did he do? Bro ran
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away like the little bitch that he is. And They'm
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not usually the kind of person that takes joy in
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other people's suffering, but when it comes to people like
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Prince Andrew, he deserves everything that he's getting. This article
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was published by The New York Post and the headline
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King Charles cuts off disgrace brother Prince Andrew's one point
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three million dollar allowance. This article was authored by Sean Mandel.
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King Charles has officially cut off his brother Prince Andrew
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and his estimated one point three million dollar a year allowance,
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according to a biography of the New King, and honestly,
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Andrew should consider himself lucky. In the old days, bro
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would have found himself inside of the London Tower and
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that would have been the end of that for mister
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Prince Andrew. But unfortunately we still got to deal with
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his nonsense. We got to see his stupid face. But
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at least he's getting his access to these funds cut off.
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Can you imagine this dude at a regular job, Prince
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Andrew at the construction site, Prince Andrew at the local
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reteller folding clothes, Prince Andrew doing anything worthwhile, I can't
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even picture it. In an updated version of his book Charles,
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the Third New King, New Court, The Inside Story, author
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Robert Hartman claims the King's relationship with his younger brother
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is at an all time low owing to charles tightening
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of the royal purse strings and if you want to
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get the Joe exotic of the Windsor family's attention. Just
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go ahead and mess with his bank account. That'll get
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him going. Charles has instructed the Keeper of the Privy Verse,
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essentially the finance director for the monarchy, to eliminate Prince
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Andrew's estimated one point three million dollars or one million
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pounds a year personal allowance and stop paying for his
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seven figure private security. According to Hartman's book, and we
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already knew about the security detail and the money being
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taken for that, but him losing access to the actual
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Privy perse itself is something that's a bit new. There
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was a lot of talk about that, a lot of
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conversation about Prince Andrew eventually losing access to that, but
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nothing ever came of it. Well, now, according to this book,
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we're at a point where some action has been taken
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by the King, and considering the financial straits that Prince
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Andrew was already in, certainly not the best news for
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the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family. The Duke is
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no longer a financial burden on the King, a source
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told thedeli mail dot com. The turning of the financial
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screws follows charles insistence that Andrew leave the thirty room
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estate known as Royal Lodge and Windsor Andrew has thus
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far balked, refusing to leave and move into Prince Harry
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and Meghan Markle's former UK home, Frogmore Cottage. Imagine crying
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about moving from one mansion to the next. Most of
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us are happy, we could just pay a rent. This
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moron's crying because he can't stay in a thirty bedroom house. Meanwhile,
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the only people living there are him, his wife, and
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the corgies. So why do you need a thirty bedroom house?
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All about status? Huh? This man should be forced to
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do what everybody else does, and hear me out, be
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an adult. Go get your own apartment, Go get your
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own house, Go make something of yourself. Don't rely on
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your parents, don't rely on their handouts. Been gifted everything
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in the whole entire world, and you've squandered it every
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step of the way. So if you think anyone's gonna
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feel sorry for you, bro, you are crazy. Now. I
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guess there might be a few people, but the vast
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majority of people on this planet that get up every day,
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put on their work boots, go out into the elements,
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whatever it might be, to put food on the table,
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They look at somebody like Prince Andrew and they want
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to be sick. The vast majority of us could work
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our whole lives twenty hours a day without a day off,
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and never be able to afford a place like frog
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More or the other place he's living. But in this
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moron's mind, he's entitled to all of this because who
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his mom was. Well breaking news, buddy. It's a brand
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new world and the rules that used to govern things,
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those rules are changing, and people don't really want to
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hear from people like you anymore, especially how everybody's struggling.
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You think anybody is going to cry any crocodile tears
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over the fact that Prince Andrew no longer has access
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to public funds or to the Royal Privy Purse. Pretty
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sure people in England have other things to worry about.
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The house, which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent
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two point eight million renovating after marrying in twenty eighteen,
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is significantly smaller than Royal Lodge, with only five bedrooms.
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Only five bedrooms. I'm paying a king's ransom, no pun
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intended for a townhouse, and this guy's out here crying
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because he does want a downgrade to five bedrooms. The
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chasm between the way people like this look at the
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world and people like us look at the world is
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so gigantic that it dwarfs the Grand Canyon. Frog Moore
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was also briefly the home of Andrew's daughter Eugenie and
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her husband Jack Brooks Bank, who leads the home from
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Harry and Megan before the royals were evicted by the King.
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While play sources told Hardman that Queen Elizabeth the Second
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lived another year, she would have forced Andrew to leave
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Royal Lodge and moved to Frogmore. The monarch, who passed
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away in September of twenty twenty two at age ninety six,
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was often accused of being overly lenient on the prince,
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widely believed to be her favorite child. Season four of
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The Crown even did an episode on the subject. You
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have to be the favorite child to not get your
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ass beat for the nonsense you were up to. If
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this was my mom and I had these allegations against
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me and I was trying to hide from the FBI,
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she'd be at my house dragging me by my ear
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to the nearest station. Oh you think you're not gonna
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speak to the FBI, and you're gonna bring shame and
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embarrassment to the family. Oh, she's showing up with a
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wooden spoon, ready to beat the ever living shit out
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of my Italian ass and then drag my ass straight
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to the FBI. But the Queen, she couldn't be bothered.
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She couldn't be bothered to reprimand her son. She couldn't
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be bothered to do anything, in fact, except enabler son
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to continue with this bullshit for all these years. But
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her Majesty was keenly aware of what she called the
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Andrew issue, a turn of phrase she used to refer
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to the many scandals that dogged Andrew over the years,
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not least of which being his friendship with the late
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pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Well, they got the pedophile part right.
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And as far as billionaire goes, well, we don't know.
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I'm guessing he probably was a billionaire with all that
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money stashed overseas with Applebee, over in Bermuda, etc. But
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as far as we know, and according to the official narrative,
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it was much less than a billion dollars. Following his
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disastrous twenty nineteen interview, with newsnight in which he failed
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to apologize for his friendship with Epstein. The Prince was
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forced to step down as a senior working member of
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the royal family. He was stripped of his patronages and
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military associations and barred from using the style of HRH
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His Royal Highness. Like that's enough, Like that's enough of
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a punishment. This man should have been sent to Timbuctoo,
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should have been forgotten about in the annals of history
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by everybody who matters, and we should have never had
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to see his face again. But instead we're still talking
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about him. He still slides his snaky ass into events
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like Prince Philip's ceremony, all the while with the King
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talking all kinds of tough but never doing anything about it.
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So maybe he's finally reached the point where he said,
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enough is enough, and I can't have this leech leeching
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off of the Royal family any longer. While it's unclear
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if Queen Elizabeth would have been able to force Andrew
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to downsize, she likely stood a better chance than her son,
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King Charles, who has thus far not been able to
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get Andrew to budge. Andrew has long argued that he
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has an airtight long term lease on the Windsor Gray
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Park mansion, which once belonged to his grandmother, the Queen Mother.
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According to sources close to the Duke of York, he
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has also reportedly told the King and the King's advisers
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that they have no right to a victim. Imagine telling
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the king that, And what's the point of being the
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king if you can't even throw your brother out of
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some house that's on the property of the royal grounds.
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Doesn't seem like much of a king to me, because
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if I was a king and my brother was out
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here being this big of a fool, oh, he'd be
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done for not one single dollar nothing. Sorry, bro, you
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made your own bed. Go ahead and go and take
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care of those corgis, take care of the horses, and
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enjoy your fade into anonymity because nobody wants to see
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her face and the royal family certainly can't take having
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you around anymore, because it's a drag on the whole
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entire monarchy. With Andrew keeping his feet squarely planted at
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Royal Lodge, Charles, according to Hartman, has effectively called his
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brother's bluff. Though Charles might not be able or willing
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to physically kick Andrew out of the mansion, he can
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deprive him of his allowance needed to pay for its
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upkeep and for his security. So basically just tightening up
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device right, getting it to a point where Andrew is
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going to have enough, hopefully in Charles's mind, to just
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pack it in and call it a day. But Prince
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Andrew is nothing if not stubborn, and I don't see
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him doing that. I think that if King Charles wants
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Prince Andrew to leave, he's going to have to force
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the issue. Just making it uncomfortable is not enough to
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get the Joe Exotic to leave. This premises where's he
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gonna go? Maybe he can go live with you, Genie.
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Andrew has reportedly claimed that he has other sources of
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income related to his contacts and international trade that are
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enough to keep him in the lifestyle to which he
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has become a custom per Hardman. Some courtiers, however, are
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doubling the veracity of Andrew's assertions. If he can find
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the money, then that is up to him, but if not,
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he will find that the King does not have unlimited patients.
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One insider told Hardman, so, look, I feel the same
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way if he has a job and he can take
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care of his own business, fine, cool, go get a job,
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be an adult. Great, but you shouldn't be on the
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teet of the monarchy and certainly not on the teet
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of the public in the UK. While Andrew may have
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won his fight to stay at Royal Lodge, it may
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turn out to be a pyrrhic victory. Apart from saddling
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himself with the financial burden of running the estate, Relationships
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within the Royal family soured as a result of Andrews's obstinacy,
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friends of the family said. When reached for comment, Buckingham
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Palace told The Post they do not comment on books,
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and hopefully this is the end for Prince Andrew, but
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I doubt it. Brows like a cockerroach during the apocalypse,
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almost impossible to get rid of. So like usual, we'll
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keep following along and when we have some more information
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about Prince Andrew or his best pal Jeffrey Epstein, we'll
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get it added to the catalog. But until then, that's
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going to do it for this one. All of the
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information that goes with this episode can be found in
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the description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to
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the Epstein Chronicles. So Prince Andrew is refusing to vacate
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the Royal Lodge despite the fact that he might be
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getting evicted. Imagine being a grown ass man, a prince
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of the royal blood, and not being able to stand
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on your own two feet, not being able to handle
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your own business as a grown ass adult. Oh, I
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have to live in my brother's cottage. Here's an idea, buddy,
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get a job and work like the rest of us.
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You just happen to win the lottery being born who
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you are, and even with that great advantage of being
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the queen's son, you found a way to squander all
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of that privilege and the all of those opportunities. And
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now you're gonna sit here and cry because you wasted
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your whole entire life when you could have been putting
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together a nest egg, a little something for later on
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by hanging out with people like Epstein and arms dealers
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and all kinds of other undesirables instead. So who are
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you crying to now? And why would you think anybody
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cares about your plight or your situation. Today's article is
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from The Independent, headline Prince Andrew refusing to budge from
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Royal Lodge despite possible eviction. The disgraced Duke reportedly fears
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the Royals will turn off his gas and electricity to
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get him to leave. Again. Here's an idea. I know
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it's a novel idea for people like Prince Andrew, who
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has probably never even purchased a gallon of milk at
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the store. But how about this. Get a job, whatever
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that job may be. Go get that job and do
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it to the best of your ability. Prince Andrew, you
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want to start rehabilitating your life. The first step is
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a little bit of humility. But time and time again
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the Joe exotic of the Windsor family has shown he
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is incapable of that. The author of this article is
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Kate Nng. The Duke of York is said to be
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refusing to budge from his current residence in Royal Lodge,
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despite fears that his brother, King Charles the Third may
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turn off the utilities to get him out of there.
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Imagine think about that for a minute. A grown ass man,
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any grown ass man, being in that circumstance, now flip
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the script and be a prince of the royal blood
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who is at all of these years with your mother
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as the locked in queen that everybody loved, and somehow,
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after she ruled for seventy years, you end up being
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broke at the end of it. How is that even possible.
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You didn't make any investments, you didn't have any stock options,
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you didn't buy gold, you didn't buy some bitcoin. What
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the hell were you doing? So again, why should anyone
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feel bad for you? You're one of those people that
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had everything given to them and even with all of
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those advantages, you found a way to screw it all up.
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The audacity of this guy to cry about his lights
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being turned off, his gas being turned off. What about
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people in England who are really feeling it, who can't
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pay their bills, who can't even put a meal on
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the table, and this guy has the audacity to cry
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like this. Prince Andrew is understood to have been offered
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Frogmore Cottage as his official residence after the Duke and
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Duchess of Sussex were asked to vacate the property earlier
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this year. However, the disgraced Duke is reportedly unwilling to
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leave the thirty room mansion and downsize to Prince Harry
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and Megan Markle's former UK residence. Yeah, you need thirty
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bedrooms because it's you and Fergie, So you need the
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thirty bedrooms, right, God forbid you downsize a little bit,
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God forbid you economize a bit. Meanwhile, regular folks are
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moving in with roommates, moving back home with their parents
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because they can't afford their bills. Does anybody out there
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really want to hear this guy, mister Richie rich over
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here cry about not having his bills paid. According to
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reports by US journalists, Daphney Barock, sources close to Andrew
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have said he is concerned that now the coronation is over,
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the knives are out. I think it's safe to say
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at this point that Daphney Barack is the official mouthpiece
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for Prince Andrew and for Gallan Maxwell. Every time something
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new is coming out about Glenn Maxwell, especially Daphney Barock
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seems to be the one bringing it to us. And
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I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact
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that her father is at who Barock right, has nothing
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to do with that fact. And as far as the
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knives being out for Prince Andrew, they should be. Imagine
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being a royal and having your name associated with this
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absolute piece of garbage. Previously, it was reported that the
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Duke worried he would no longer be able to afford
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to maintain Royal Lodge after the King cuts his annual
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two hundred and fifty thousand pounds allowance from the late
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Queen Eliza Zabeth the Second. With all of his schooling,
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all of the benefits he had of privilege, he didn't
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bang out in education where he can earn two hundred
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and fifty grand a year on his own. I mean,
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come on now, don't get me wrong. Two hundred and
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fifty grand a year is a nice little nut. But
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when you have all of the privilege of Prince Andrew,
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I don't want to hear shit about Oh I don't
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have any money. Oh I don't have a proper job.
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You squandered your whole life, bro, while the rest of
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us were bootstrapping. Now you think anybody has any empathy
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for your dumbass, certainly not me. A source was quoted
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as saying Andrew is so fragile, he's refusing to see anybody.
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This has been his family home for the past twenty years.
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Is it really sensible to kick him out? Yeah, it
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is sensible. Stand on your own two feet, be an adult,
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pay your rent, go to the store, buy some groceries,
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and end your five year tantruom you gigantic baby. He's
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concerned that now the coronation is over, the knives are out.
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He's worried that the Royals might even turn off the
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utilities to get him out of there. But we're dealing
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with human beings, not with real estate. Oh let's try
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and humanize Prince Andrew, shall we. They're talking about it
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like he's gonna get thrown out and he's gonna go
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live in whatever the local homeless encampment is in London.
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Give me a break, Okay. He has the option to
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go to this other cottage, and he refuses to downgrade.
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You know why, because his whole life he's been given
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whatever he wants, and now that there's some limits set
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on what he can and can't have, he doesn't like it.
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He wants to have everything given to him on a
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silver platter like it always has been. But the fact
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is this, those days are over for this dude, and
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the sooner he realizes that, the better off he's going
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to be. It has been said that if and when
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Andrew moves out of Royal Lodge, the Prince and Princess
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of Wales are expected to take up residence there. At present,
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Prince William and Kate Middleton live in Adelaide Cottage in
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Holme Park. They moved their last year to be closer
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to their children's school, Lambrook School, which is near Ascot
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in Berkshire. All of that stuff, every single one of
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those names screams old money to me, Like those are
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the kind of neighborhoods that we would never even be
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welcomed in. Right those schools. You know how much one
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of those schools cost to send your kid to, like
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elementary school. We're talking like forty five grand a year.
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Another source was quoted in Barock's articles as saying, if
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Charles wants Andrew to play ball and help the family,
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aren't there better ways of going about it? Why not
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do the decent thing, sit down and talk. So it's
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everybody else's fault, not Andrew's. Let's set it up like
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Andrew's being victimized here and everybody's treating him so poorly.
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I've said it a million times. This man is living
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in a gilded cage of his own making, and he
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has nobody it'll blame for his quote unquote problems, but
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himself here. If they need the house for William, perhaps
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Andrews should be told. Perhaps William should invite his uncle
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for tea and explain, here's an eye. The king's telling
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you something. Okay, The King is giving you an order.
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The King told you to move out of the house.
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What are you waiting for? In the old days, I
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guarantee you he wouldn't be waiting. If the King told
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him to jump, his ass would say how high or
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he'd end up in the tower. And I love how
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this source is acting like sitting down and talking about
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it will make everything okay. The fact is Prince Andrew
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doesn't want to be told no and doesn't want to
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be told what to do. Those are the facts. Andrew
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shares the mass of property, which encompasses ninety eight acres
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with his former wife, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. Their daughters,
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Princess Beatrice and Eugenie, visit them frequently there. A family
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friend was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying Eugenie
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is heavily pregnant and her parents expect to have a
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new grandchild there this summer. Don't forget that Sarah has
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been the glue holding the family together through this nightmare?
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Was that before or after she was taking money from
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Epstein too? Do they think we forgot about that, because
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I certainly haven't. Neither Andrew nor Ferguson are working royals.
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Ferguson was married to the Duke from nineteen eighty six
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to nineteen ninety six and stepped down from the royal
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family following the divorce, although she remains close to Andrew.
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Andrew and Fergie at this point are like the royal
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version of the Chris Lies right, scammers, grifters, big talkers,
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no showers, and that's always been Prince Andrew and Fergie.
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The Duke stepped down from royal duties in twenty nineteen
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over his association with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He was
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also stripped of his HRH style military titles and patronages
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after he was sued by epstein survivor Virginia Roberts for
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sexual abuse when she was under age. Andrew has denied
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the allegations and said he does not recall ever meeting Roberts.
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He reached the multimillion pounds settlement with Roberts early last
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year and said he regretted his association with Epstein, who
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he acknowledged trafficked countless young girls over many years. The
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last time Andrew was seen in public was at the
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coronation of the King Charles and Queen Camilla, at which
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he had no formal role. Buckingham Palace has declined to comment,
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and that's been their mo They're not going to comment
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on Prince Andrew. The last thing they want to do
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is bring this guy's name up. Ever, if they could
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use one of those tools that they used in Men
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in Black on all of us and have us forget
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that this guy ever existed, that's what would be happening.
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Because he's that big of an embarrassment. There's no comeback
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for Prince Andrew. There's no Oh, I want to be
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a working royal again. It's never going to happen. And
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this dude needs to face the new reality that he
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has in front of him, and that reality is a
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life of shame and scorn and guess what he has.
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Nobody it'll blame but himself, all right, folks, that's going
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to do it for this one. All of the information
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that goes with the episode can be found in the
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description box. What's up everyone, and welcome back to the
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Epstein Chronicles. One of the roles that Prince Andrew has
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been able to scratch and claw's way to keeping has
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been his counselor role. Well, that party's about to end
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as well as King Charles. His brother has decided that
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he's going to shake things up, and not only will
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Andrew lose this counselor's role, but also his son Harry.
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So things are definitely on the change in the royal family.
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And this is something I talked about previously. Once the
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Queen's gone as she is, there would be big changes.
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The sentiment of the public is certainly not in the
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favor of King Charles. He's not a beloved figure. People
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remember Diana, people remember Jimmy Saville, people remember the bags
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of the bin Laden family cash And I'm just scratching
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the surface, but he is not a beloved figure like
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the Queen was. So he's really playing a dangerous game
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with each decision he makes. Previously, they had the ability
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to fall back on the Queen when something went wrong
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and her image, her persona and the love of the
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people that they had for her, well, that would help
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carry the day. Now they don't have that to rely
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on anymore, So they're gonna have to navigate the minefield
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in a much more, let us say, careful manner than
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they have previously, And I honestly don't know if they're
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up for the task. For so long, all of them
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have had the Queen picking up after them, and they
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all knew that they had the Queen's great resources to
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dive into if shit went south like it did for
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Prince Andrew. Do you really think that Prince Andrew would
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have been able to navigate all of this if his
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mother wasn't as beloved as she was, Say, she wasn't around,
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and all of this happened under King Charles, How different
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do you think it would have been? My guess is
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a whole lot different, folks. And now that the Queen
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is gone, Charles realizes that the party is over and
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it's time to pare down the monarchy and it's time
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to show the people that he's taking his job seriously.
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So today we're going to talk about how Prince Andrew
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has his role as a counselor snatched from him and
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really he has nothing left. Oh, Sherry's the Duke of York,
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But the people of York don't even want him. So
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go and walk the Corgis, go and ride your horse,
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and go and watch Love Island because the rest of
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the world wants nothing to do with you. Today's article
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is from the BBC headline Prince Andrew and Prince Harry
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Royal councilor roles are challenged. This article was authored by
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Sean Coughlin and it was published by the BBC. Prince
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Andrew and Prince Harry's roles in being allowed to stand
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in for the for King Charles for official duties has
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been challenged in the House of Lords. They remain too
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a the five counselors of State who can carry out
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important constitutional duties if the monarch is unwell or overseas.
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And the talk is that this is a done deal
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that Andrew will lose this role and so will Harry.
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Now the whole Harry situation, look, I've said it from
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Jump Street. I'm not interested in his life or Megan Markles.
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I really don't care. That's a diversion for me. But
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as far as him losing his counselor role, if it's
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just because he married Megan Markle and moved to America,
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is that really the right way to go about it
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for this kid. Give him the Prince Andrew treatment. Again,
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I don't know the monarchy as well as a lot
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of you out there who follow it, So I'm just
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talking about it from layman's terms, basically right my seat
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here in the Peanut Gallery, and from where I'm sitting,
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it certainly doesn't look to me that Harry did anything
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that comes close to what Andrew did. Viscount Stansgate questioned
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their status when one had left public life and the
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other had left the country. It was time for a
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sensible amendment to end this arrangement, he said. And look again,
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I'm not too hip to all of the English laws
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and customs and what goes on in the House of Commons.
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I'd be a liar if I sat here and told
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you that I am an expert in how that works.
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But I can understand why these elected officials here would
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be pretty adamant to have Prince Andrew, especially removed from
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this role. God forbid. Imagine something did happen and we
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turn on our TVs and this dumbass is there smiling
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at us. The Joe exotic of the Windsor family might
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as well have Liz Trust standing next to him. To
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complete the embarrassment. Lord Addington, a liberal Democrat, suggested that
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working royals, somebody who actually undertakes royal duties, should be
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given priority for these roles. Yes, if you're going to
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have a royal in these roles, it should be somebody
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who's considered a quote unquote working royal. No, I don't
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understand you just have anyone stand in here. The guy's
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not even part of the royal family, So what's the
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big deal if he keeps the title or not. In
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response to questions from peers, the Lord Privy Seal, Lord
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True said he would not comment on specific circumstances and
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the Royal household would need to be would need to
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be consulted about any change. First of all, the fact
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that you guys still have a Lord of the Privy
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Seal over there is kind of cool, right. Reminds me
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of a Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon.
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Can I come sit in on the King's Small Council please?
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But all kidding aside, you would think that people would
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be pushing for this right, not saying, oh, well, we're
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gonna punt it to the royals and to the Royal
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House so they can make the decision. Now. I think
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Charles is going to make the right decision here because
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he understands the optics and what he's up against. But
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as far as him being a good man and this
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being a decision that he's going into and he's happy about,
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I don't know about all that. Honestly, I'm not a
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huge fan of the Royals in general, and Charles and
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his relationship with Jimmy Saville really grosses me out. Then
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you talk about Lord mount Batten, who was his mentor,
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and what he's charged with or accused of, and starts
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to build a profile that is pretty disgusting. But Lord
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True told the House of Lords the government will always
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consider what arrangements are needed to ensure resilience in our
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constitutional arrangements, and in the past we have seen that
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the point of extension has proved a useful opportunity to
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consider the arrangements in place. Well, I would think that
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they try and push for that no matter what. But again,
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I don't think they're gonna have to push too hard.
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I think that Prince King Charles is going to do
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this pretty much on his own, and if the House
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of Lords in the House of Commons are willing to
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back the decision. So much the better because I don't
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know who wants to come out in public here and
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stand up for Andrew. Now I can understand Harry, like
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I said, you know, I don't know why there's so
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much craziness around the dude for just wanting to leave.
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But Andrew, there shouldn't even be a conversation here. This
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dude should be stripped of every single title he has,
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including the Duke of York title, and he should be
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left to sit around in the living room eating Cheetos
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and watching shitty daytime television for the rest of his life.
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Under the Regency Act, the Counselors of State are the
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spouse of the monarch and the next foreign line of
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succession over the age of twenty one. At present, these
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are Camilla the Queen Consort, Prince William, the Prince of Wales,
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Prince Andrew, Duke of York,
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and his daughter, Princess Beatrice. So, right off the bat,
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do we really want Princess Ba No offense to her.
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I don't have any beef with her, but really she's
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somebody that should be standing in for the king here.
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Has she ever been to any of these meetings sat in?
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So that's a little weird. Prince Andrew, come on, man, really,
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you might as well go and dig up Jimmy Saville
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and have him come and be Prince Andrew's counselor Harry. Again,
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I don't really get the whole pomp and circumstance. If
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the kid's capable to stand in as a counselor, he
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is of the royal blood, right just because he lives
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somewhere else doesn't mean he's not of the royal blood anymore.
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So I don't see the big issue there. But like
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I said, I get it. I'm not a royalist or
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a historian of the monarchy, so I don't know all
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of the ins and outs. I'm just telling you from
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somebody as an observer. There's no way in hell, under
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any circumstances, even if the whole family, God forbid, was
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to get the Black plague, Prince Andrew should never be
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near that crown, never be near the throne. Ever, you
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can carry out official duties such as signing documents, receiving ambassadors,
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or attending Privy Council meetings if the monarch is if
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the monarch is temporarily ill or abroad, what I think
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we need over here in the UK is a hand
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of the king. Right, got to get yourself a hand
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of the king. The king eats and the hand takes
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the shit. That's how the saying goes. Labor Peer Viscount Stansgate,
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who is Stephen Benn, the eldest son of Labor politician
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Tony Benn, said this showed the value of updating the
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Regency Act to ensure royals were available to stand in
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It's the only reason why it was possible to open
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the current session of this Parliament, he told peers, and
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he called on government to approach the King over changes
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to the current arrangements. Now that Prince Harry was living
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in the United States and Prince Andrew no longer carried
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out royal duties, changes to the legislation would be the
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responsibility of the Cabinet Office, and spokeswoman referred back to
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the comments of the Lord Privy Seal. Represent Representatives of
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Prince Harry and Prince Andrew declined to comment. Well, look
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either way, Prince Andrew certainly doesn't deserve to have his
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name anywhere near any of this stuff, so he should
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be launched into orbit. He shouldn't be a counselor. And
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I'm sure there are plenty of other people who are
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capable of doing that job in the royal family. So
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let's get to it. Prince Charles, stop by me now,
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King Charles, quit counting your bin laden cash for a minute,
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and let's take some action here, all right, folks, it's
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