Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / From Edward VIII to Prince Andrew: Measuring the Scale of a Royal Crisis

Transcript

From Edward VIII to Prince Andrew: Measuring the Scale of a Royal Crisis · The Epstein Chronicles

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
• 0:03
  Epstein Chronicles. The monarchy in the UK has been able
• 0:09
  to weather some serious storms throughout its history, including the
• 0:14
  abdication of Edward the Eighth, But of all the scandals
• 0:18
  that the monarchy has faced, the Prince Andrew scandal is
• 0:23
  perhaps the most damaging. And if we're listening to Andrew Lowney,
• 0:29
  he says that what's going on with Prince Andrew overshadows
• 0:33
  the abdication of Edward the Eighth, And look, it's certainly
• 0:37
  more embarrassing. Right With Edward the eighth, he abdicated and
• 0:42
  they moved on. But with Prince Andrew, this dude's hanging
• 0:46
  around like a barnacle on the bottom of a boat,
• 0:49
  and he just won't go away. So every single time
• 0:52
  some new information comes out, the monarchy's forced to deal
• 0:56
  with it all over again. So basically, what I'm telling
• 0:58
  you is that Andrew is like the human form of herpes.
• 1:03
  Even when you use the voweltrax or whatever medicine they
• 1:06
  have these days for it, it's gonna come back eventually.
• 1:10
  That's the case with Prince Andrew. The fact that they
• 1:14
  babied him, the fact that they let him get away
• 1:16
  with the bullshit for so long has now led us
• 1:19
  to this point and it's become a gigantic, festering wound
• 1:25
  right in the belly of the monarchy. And according to
• 1:29
  Andrew Lowney, it might be a wound that is mortal.
• 1:33
  So today we have an article from the Deli mel
• 1:36
  and the headline Andrew mount Batton Winsor links to Epstein's
• 1:40
  scandal is more of a crisis for royals than abdication
• 1:43
  of Edward the Eighth. Biographer Andrew Lowney claims this article
• 1:48
  was authored by Mark Duell. Andrew mount Batten Winsor's links
• 1:52
  to Jeffrey epstein have given the royal family a bigger
• 1:55
  crisis than Edward the Eight's abdication, a biographer claim today.
• 2:00
  Andrew Lowney said that public anger is greater about the
• 2:03
  former prince's behavior and his links to the pedophile financier
• 2:08
  than when the King stepped down in nineteen thirty six. Well, look,
• 2:12
  the King stepped down, he did the right thing, and
• 2:14
  he faded from publicity, right, faded from the public view.
• 2:19
  But Prince Andrew, he tried to hold on till the
• 2:22
  very end, and not only that he continued to lie
• 2:25
  about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way up
• 2:28
  until the arrest, and I'm sure he was still lying
• 2:31
  about it to the police. Do you really think that
• 2:34
  Prince Andrew at this point is going to tell you
• 2:36
  the truth or that he's even capable of telling the truth,
• 2:42
  because I just don't believe it. I don't think he's
• 2:44
  capable of telling the truth even. And you know what
• 2:48
  they say, right, when you tell a lie for so long,
• 2:50
  you start thinking that shit's true. And with Prince Andrew,
• 2:53
  he's probably convinced himself he's done nothing wrong. And that
• 2:57
  whole entire mindset was enabled by the Queen for all
• 3:00
  those years. She let Prince Andrew, or should I say
• 3:04
  the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, get away with
• 3:08
  pretty much whatever you wanted, and that led to the
• 3:10
  behavior that we're seeing here. Mister Lowney, who wrote entitled
• 3:15
  The Rise and Fall of the House of York, compared
• 3:17
  current events to when Edward abdicated to marry us divorcee,
• 3:21
  while as Simpson, Oh, what a scandal. He wants to
• 3:26
  marry a divorcee. What a scandal? Imagine being the king
• 3:29
  and not being allowed to marry whoever you wanted to marry.
• 3:33
  He had to marry some stuffy ass noble woman or whatever.
• 3:37
  Sounds like a lot of fun. What's the point being
• 3:39
  the king If I can't marry who I want to
• 3:42
  marry and do what I want to do, you know,
• 3:44
  within the bounds of reason, obviously, But I'm talking about
• 3:48
  my personal life. If I want to marry Willa from
• 3:51
  down the block, who I grew up with, then that's
• 3:54
  who I should marry. I think these ancient customs should
• 3:58
  be left in ancient times. The author told the Oxford
• 4:02
  Literary Festival yesterday that Edward's abdication was a three day
• 4:06
  wonder and the public did not engage with the full
• 4:09
  details at the time. Mister Lowney also cited how edward
• 4:14
  support of Nazis was not yet common knowledge, and how
• 4:17
  he resigned voluntarily to marry a woman that he loved,
• 4:21
  reported the Times. So look, I'm not too familiar with
• 4:25
  his support of Nazis and whatnot. I know that there
• 4:29
  was support by Edward, but I'm not some historian who
• 4:33
  can go deep into the weeds and tell you one
• 4:35
  way or the other. Now, if you're going to support
• 4:39
  the nazis probably a good idea to abdicate, right, But
• 4:43
  if you're abdicating because you're in love with some woman
• 4:46
  who is not a royal, then I don't even find
• 4:49
  that to be a scandal, to be honest with you,
• 4:51
  It's just like that whole Harry and Megan Markle thing.
• 4:55
  I really just don't care. The inner workings of the
• 4:58
  royal family do not interests me one bit. What interests
• 5:02
  me is how their given protection from the law that
• 5:05
  the rest of us would never receive. That's what interests me.
• 5:12
  The biographer also wrote Trader King the Scandalous Exile of
• 5:16
  the Duke and Duchess. A Winsor compared this to Andrew
• 5:20
  being stripped of his royal titles and honors after allegations
• 5:24
  continued to be revealed about his relationship with Epstein. And
• 5:29
  if anybody should have been stripped, if anybody should have
• 5:32
  lost their titles, certainly Andrew. Look, I have no empathy
• 5:37
  for it. This man had every benefit in the whole
• 5:40
  entire world. Imagine having everything Andrew had just given to
• 5:46
  you and squandering it all and then crying about how
• 5:51
  it's unfair or how you're being targeted. Think about how
• 5:55
  hard you work every single day to put food on
• 5:58
  the table. Your kids have everything they need, everything they want.
• 6:04
  Make sure your life is as comfortable as possible, and
• 6:08
  think about how expensive it all is. Then imagine waking
• 6:13
  up one day and being the son of the Queen
• 6:15
  of England. Can you imagine how different in your life
• 6:19
  would be? Do you really think you'd sit around thinking about, Oh,
• 6:24
  I want to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein, or I
• 6:26
  don't have enough as the Queen's son, I need more.
• 6:30
  It's so absurd to me, and I think it makes
• 6:32
  me so mad because I know how hard everybody works
• 6:35
  to get where they're going, and then you have a
• 6:37
  guy like this that just takes it all for granted.
• 6:43
  Andrews sixty six was released under investigation on February nineteenth,
• 6:48
  after being held for eleven hours in police custody on
• 6:52
  suspicion of misconduct in public office. The former Duke of
• 6:56
  York was also stripped of his royal title and evicted
• 6:59
  from Royal Lodge and Winsor by his brother in the
• 7:02
  wake of the Epstein scandal. And look, that's all great,
• 7:06
  that's awesome, but it should have happened a long time ago,
• 7:10
  and the fact that they coddled this dude and let
• 7:12
  him get away with all of this by enabling him
• 7:14
  for all these years is a big problem. And at
• 7:17
  some point the royal family is going to have to
• 7:19
  face it head on because if they don't, it's just
• 7:22
  going to keep festering like we've seen over all these years.
• 7:26
  So they have to just deal with it at some point.
• 7:28
  And finally the King got to that point, right, enough
• 7:31
  is enough. I can't take this anymore. This is the
• 7:34
  kind of thing that can ruin everything, basically, so I
• 7:39
  have to cut eight and Prince Andrew was effectively voted
• 7:44
  off the island. But mister Lowney said it was unlikely
• 7:48
  that Andrew will be prosecuted because the Royals will not
• 7:51
  want him in court, saying everyone knew about this. Why
• 7:54
  am I being penalized? And I think that is the
• 7:57
  very likely scenario. Unfortunately, you know the UK, they're spinning
• 8:02
  their wheels here and the optics are good right now.
• 8:06
  But are those optics going to remain the same if
• 8:09
  they don't prosecute Mandelssohn and Prince Andrew. We all know
• 8:13
  the story and we all know how the UK has
• 8:16
  been very hesitant when it comes to enforcing justice surrounding
• 8:21
  Epstein in his crimes, so I remain skeptical that we're
• 8:26
  going to see real action here. Andrew was spotted over
• 8:31
  the weekend for the first time since his arrest, cutting
• 8:34
  a solitary figure as he took his dog for a
• 8:36
  walk around Sandringham. The King's disgraced brother wandered about the
• 8:40
  countryside for ninety minutes near Wood Farm, part of Charles
• 8:44
  Estate in Norfolk, where he now lives. Talk about a
• 8:48
  fall from grace. This dude went from gallivanting all over
• 8:53
  the world, enjoying the hospitality of the most famous, the
• 8:57
  most powerful, now walking around with the dog in Norfolk
• 9:02
  for ninety minutes. And that's the extent of his socializing. Well,
• 9:07
  you know what they say about making your own bed right.
• 9:12
  It's the first time that Andrew had been pictured since
• 9:14
  photos were taken of him slumped in the rear of
• 9:17
  a range rover following his arrest four weeks ago. Andrew
• 9:21
  appears to be desperately clinging onto his royal styling. However,
• 9:25
  hundreds of removal boxes stamped HRH office, HRH sitting room
• 9:30
  and even HRH meeting room were last delivered to his
• 9:34
  new abode. This guy just won't give up. The party's over, buddy.
• 9:38
  You're not the Prince anymore. You're not a royal. You're
• 9:42
  about as royal as me. And if you were a
• 9:44
  regular person, your ass would probably already be in jail.
• 9:49
  And the only reason you're not is because you're the
• 9:51
  Queen's son. But short of that, your bitch ass would
• 9:55
  be in jail already. The five bedroom house has been
• 9:59
  hastily upgraded in recent days, with security, fencing, CCTV and
• 10:04
  broadband installed, as well as works carried out on the grounds.
• 10:10
  Last week, Scotland Yards chief said it was investigating a
• 10:13
  whole range of sexual allegations against Andrew to see if
• 10:16
  they merit a criminal investigation. Andrew was accused of having
• 10:21
  sex with Jeffrey Epstein, victim for Junior Roberts, three times,
• 10:25
  including when she was seventeen after being traffic by the
• 10:29
  pedophile financier. The former prince was arrested last month on
• 10:33
  suspicion of misconduct and public office over claims that he
• 10:37
  shared sensitive information with Epstein when he was the UK's
• 10:41
  Trade envoy, but Andrew has not been arrested in relation
• 10:45
  to any sex offenses. Well that's true, but now that
• 10:50
  they opened the door, we all know they're going to
• 10:52
  walk through, right, And that's what's going on now. Behind
• 10:55
  the scenes. They're going through all the evidence, whatever they
• 10:58
  can find, whatever they have, and they're going to try
• 11:00
  and figure out if any other criminal charges are warranted.
• 11:05
  So we'll see what happens, but like usual, I remain
• 11:09
  skeptical that we're going to get any real justice here.
• 11:12
  So like all the other stories we're keeping an eye on,
• 11:15
  we'll keep an eye on this one as the investigation
• 11:18
  into the former Prince Andrew continues to grow. All the
• 11:22
  information that goes with this episode can be found in
• 11:26
  the description box.