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No Trust, No Testimony: The Epstein Survivors and UK Authorities (6/1/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to the monarchy, there has
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  been scandal after a scandal that they've been able to
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  definitely navigate, whether it was Princess Diana or anything else,
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  they've usually come out on top. However, the situation with
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  Prince Andrew is an anchor that is really weighing the
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  monarchy down and I don't see them getting out from
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  underneath it anytime soon, especially considering that people, including Epstein's
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  survivors themselves, think that the Palace is still engaging in
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  a cover up. And I have to agree. You know,
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  I know a lot of people out there are like, well,
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  the UK is making moves, they're arresting people, but is
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  it for show? Do they know that they're not going
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  to get the information from the Americans, so they're just
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  doing this to show the British people, Hey, look we're
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  doing something. We tried our best. It was those damn
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  Americans that screwed it all up. And while I'm sure
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  there is a little bit of truth to that about
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  America not playing ball, there's a lot more meat on
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  this bone then the Palace wants to admit and not
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  all of it has to do with Jeffrey Epstein. So
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  when it comes to Prince Andrew, I'd say that the
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  cover up is well under way, except this time it's
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  being directed from the Palace and not from ten Downing Street,
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  and the chorus of criticism against the Palace and the
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  Crown and this cover up continue to grow. So today
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  we have an article from the Telegraph and the headline
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  Epstein's survivor accuses Palace of cover up. This article was
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  authored by Natasha Leak, a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein, has
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  accused Buckingham Palace of covering up the actions of Andrew
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  mount Batton. Winsor. Jess Michaels, who was sexually assaulted by
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  Epstein in nineteen ninety one when she was twenty two
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  years old, claimed the Institution had failed to act on
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  evidence that he had leaked confidential government information. And that's
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  a fact. They knew they had this information all the
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  way back in twenty twenty, and they did nothing with
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  it because they were covering up what was going on
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  with Epstein, and of course Prince Andrew's partner it and
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  the Palace had to cover it up. What are they
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  going to do out Prince Andrew, the Queen's favorite boy.
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  She would have never allowed it. But now that she's gone,
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  it's her relatives that have to deal with it. William
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  and Charles, the rest of them are left hold in
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  the bag when the Queen could have fixed this a
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  long time ago. Speaking to the Telegraph, she accused the
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  Palace of protecting mister mount Batton Windsor after I had
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  received emails six years ago showing that he had shared
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  sensitive government information with a business contact while he was
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  a trade endvoy. Six years ago. The Palace knew Andrew
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  wasn't just a problem, he could face criminal investigation, and
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  they sat on it. Miss Michael said in a statement
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  to the Telegraph. Look, she is not wrong. That's what
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  a up is. You have the information and you sit
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  on it because you know it's damaging. The people of
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  the UK deserve so much better that it's not even funny.
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  And I know everybody likes to pile on, you know,
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  the administration here in America, and they've earned it. But
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  let's not act like what's going on over in the
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  UK is all fine and well. It most certainly is not.
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  And if they can find a way to stash this
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  and kill the story. That's what they're gonna do too.
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  And I hate to admit it, but they've been pretty
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  effective at killing the story over the past couple of months.
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  Whether it's with Iran or something else, they've done a
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  pretty good job. Miss Michaels, who was a professional dancer
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  in New York City when Epstein assaulted her, added that
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  the failure to act had wider moral consequences for survivors
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  and others connected to the case. And there's zero doubt
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  that all of the questioning, all of the doubting of
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  Virginia took a toll on her. And the saddest part is,
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  in my opinion, she was telling the truth. Imagine going
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  through your life being malign like that, telling everybody the truth,
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  as embarrassing as it is, and you still have people
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  out here that are doubting you, calling you all kinds
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  of crazy names. Sure, let's protect Prince Andrew, though protecting
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  him meant doubting her. Virginia Roberts was telling the truth
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  and she didn't live to see them. Admit it. That
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  breaks my heart and it should break everyone's. I agree
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  with that too, It should if anyone deserved to see
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  Andrew's downfall, and most certainly was Virginia. She's the one
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  that exposed them. She's the one that actually put her
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  name on the line to bring this to light. So
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  if anyone deserved to see this happen, it was her.
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  So with her not being around, I think we owe
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  it to her to make sure that we hold Prince
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  Andrew's feet to the fire and we make sure we
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  got as close to justice as we possibly can. And
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  if that shit makes me the asshole or the bad guy, cool,
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  I have zero problem being that person. This is what
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  institutions do. They protect powerful men and leave people they
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  harmed to carry it. Miss Michaels said that she was
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  glad UK was investigating mister mount Batten Windsor, describing it
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  as the very least that they could do. I'm glad
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  the UK is finally investigating, she told the telegraphs, a
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  little late, but it's the very least that they could do. Meanwhile,
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  our own government named us as victims, shields the men
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  who harmed us, and still treats us like the problem. Unfortunately,
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  that's how they look at the girls as a problem,
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  a problem for their narrative, a problem when they say,
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  move on. How can you look at these women, these
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  girls who were abused and want to move on, unless,
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  of course, you believe that they're lying. And they're sure
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  as a lot of people out there these days that
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  believe that, which is crazy because most of them are
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  the same people that believe that Tom Hanks was drinking
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  baby's blood down in Gitmo, the same people that couldn't
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  shut up about h O this and pedal that. But
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  all of a sudden, they don't want to talk about
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  quote unquote conspiracies. They don't want to talk about child abusers.
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  I wonder why mister mount Batton Winsor's association with Jeffrey
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  Epstein has been the subject to sustained public and legal
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  scrutiny for several years. Several years, I think you mean
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  a decade and a half or so. Virginia Roberts, one
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  of Epstein's most prominent accusers, claimed that she had been
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  trafficked to Mount Baton Winsor when she was seventeen years old.
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  In February, on his sixty sixth birthday, mister mount Baton
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  Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
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  or allegations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein
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  while working as a trade endvoy. I don't even know
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  if it's an allegation. We saw the emails. Now they're
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  going to split hers right and say, oh this was
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  illegal or this was legal. Oh this was out of line,
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  but it didn't cross the line, you know, the whole thing.
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  But the emails are what they are, and he sends
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  sensitive information to his pedophile buddy. That's it. That's the story.
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  So now the question is what's the UK government going
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  to do about it. Paperwork released as part of the
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  Epstein files appears to show mister Mount Baton Windsor forwarding
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  official reports in November twenty ten relating to trips to
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  Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and China. He denies all wrongdoing.
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  Oh imagine that he denies all wrongdoing, The same guy
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  that lied to us in the BBC interview. Sure, let's
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  believe what Prince Andrew has to say. Correlated documents indicate
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  that Buckingham Palace was provided with large volumes of correspondence
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  in twenty twenty that raised questions about mister Mount Batton
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  Winsor's conduct in public office. According to the documents. The
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  Lord Chamberlain, the palace's most senior official, received a tranch
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  of around thirty thousand emails, including some relating to mount
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  Batten Winsor. So they had all this information, all these
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  documents previously they did shit about it. So who's going
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  to answer for that? Whose decision was that? The former
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  Prince is understood to have forwarded correspondence to Jonathan Rowland,
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  a close friend and former chief executive of Bank Haviland
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  during his time as Trade Envoy between two thousand and
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  one and twenty eleven. The emergence of these claims has
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  increased scrutiny of the Palace. How much was known about
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  mister mount Batton Winsor at the time and what action,
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  if any, was taken over his actions? Look all valid questions,
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  and if the Palace knew about this, why didn't they act?
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  Who told them that they should sit on it? And
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  when we talk about a cover up, this is what
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  we mean and I think we've only seen the very
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  beginnings of it. Over in the UK, on Saturday, Rachel Maskell,
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  the Labor MP for York Central, called for a publican increy,
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  saying that the system built around the royal household has
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  to be reviewed. Sharing an appearance on BBC's Radio four
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  Today program, the web grows ever darker and that's why
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  we've got to address an issue of unaccountable power and
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  also the abuse of power in high office, she said.
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  She added that she wanted a joint committee of members
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  from the House of Commons and the House of Lords
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  to be established to scrutinize the Royal household. That's a
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  great idea. There needs to be some oversight, some accountability,
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  but when it comes to the Palace, we hardly see it.
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  They just do whatever they want, whenever they want to
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  do it. When asked by the BBC about the emails,
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  Buckingham Palace said, since there's an ongoing police inquiry concerning
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  mister mount Batten Windsor, it's not possible to provide any
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  comment on these matters. Buckingham Palace declined to comment when
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  contacted by the Telegraph and Buckingham Palace's favorite comment is
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  no comment. That's something we've seen for years now and
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  it's something that served them well. They've been able to
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  get away with it because they've been afforded a lot
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  of privacy over in the UK and of course, accountability
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  is not something that they can even pronounce when it
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  comes to the Royal family. They're never held accountable for anything.
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  So the question is is that going to change with
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  Prince Andrew or are we just going to get more
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  of the same. All of the information that goes with
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