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Police Worried Royal Permission Could Derail Searches of Andrew’s Homes (10/16/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. We're learning a little bit more about the
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  Speaker 1: police raid on Prince Andrew and what their basis for
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  Speaker 1: that raid was. And according to new documents that have
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  Speaker 1: been released, the police feared that Prince Andrew would block
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  Speaker 1: those searches by using the king's name. So they felt
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  Speaker 1: that they had to act quickly and get this evidence
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  Speaker 1: before Andrew... found a way to roadblock them and keep
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  Speaker 1: them from it. Now, of course, that was overturned by
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  Speaker 1: the High Court in London. So today, we have an
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  Speaker 1: article from The Independent and the headline, Police Feared Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Would Block Searches By Demanding King's Permission, Legal Documents Show.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Mathilde Grandjean. Officers worried that
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor might obstruct property searches by insisting police needed
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  Speaker 1: to seek authorization from the King. Newly released court files show.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I could see that being a concern, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're going after the King's brother, and not just any brother,
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  Speaker 1: but the most shameless of the most shameless. And if
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  Speaker 1: there's a way to weasel his way out of any trouble,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to find it. So I could see that
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  Speaker 1: being a motivating factor for them to try and get
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  Speaker 1: the raid underway. and get things in motion. Thames Valley
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  Speaker 1: Police has conceded that the search warrants executed during February
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  Speaker 1: raids on Royal Lodge, his former Windsor residence, and his
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  Speaker 1: home on the Sandringham estate were unlawful. Yeah, because of
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  Speaker 1: loopholes and technicalities. And frankly, I don't know if the
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  Speaker 1: Thames Valley Police are in on it or not. This
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  Speaker 1: could all be an elaborate ruse to get Prince Andrew
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  Speaker 1: off the hook. Now, there's no evidence of that, right?
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that's not what's going on. And
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that I'm just taking everything that they
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  Speaker 1: tell us at face value. I most certainly am not.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt,
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  Speaker 1: at least as far as the investigation goes, that they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it for legitimate means, but they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: held accountable. And we're going to follow along every step
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  Speaker 1: of the way, just like we do here in America.
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  Speaker 1: Following a legal challenge by Andrew, high court documents have
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  Speaker 1: disclosed that the force was anxious... Crucial material might be
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  Speaker 1: lost if officers were forced to request clearance from Buckingham
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  Speaker 1: Palace prior to executing the searches. That in itself is
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  Speaker 1: a big problem. So they felt like they couldn't contact
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  Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace because of leaks. They thought that if they
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  Speaker 1: contacted the palace, it'd get back to Andrew and sensitive
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  Speaker 1: documents would be destroyed or hidden. So instead, they made
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  Speaker 1: their move. But remember who we're dealing with here. He
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  Speaker 1: might be the most embarrassing of the bunch. He might
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  Speaker 1: be the outcast, the black sheep, if you will. But
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  Speaker 1: he's still the queen's son. And I have a suspicion
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  Speaker 1: that he has a lot more support behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the other royals than they've let on.
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  Speaker 1: None of this is new. They could have ostracized Andrew
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago. They chose not to. And only
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  Speaker 1: when the pressure campaign from the public reached a level
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  Speaker 1: that was unavoidable did they act. And even then, What
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  Speaker 1: have they really done? According to the filings, investigators were
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  Speaker 1: looking to seize paperwork, diaries, business records, or other documentary
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  Speaker 1: evidence of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's time as Special Representative for Trade
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  Speaker 1: and Investment. And that's what this investigation hinges on, right?
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  Speaker 1: Andrew trading private information, confidential information, to people outside the
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  Speaker 1: government of the UK, namely Jeffrey Epstein. But I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: there were others. If you had a big enough bag,
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  Speaker 1: Prince Andrew certainly was showing up to play. Everybody knows
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  Speaker 1: that Prince Andrew was for sale. Whether that's a corrupt
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  Speaker 1: businessman in China, or Turkey, or Jeffrey Epstein, it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Submissions from Andrew's legal team note that officers told the
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  Speaker 1: Old Bailey judge, AMW, or his legal team, may seek
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  Speaker 1: to advance that the property belongs to someone else, the king,
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  Speaker 1: and the separate legal permission should be sought. So basically
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  Speaker 1: saying the king owns this property and if you want
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  Speaker 1: to raid it or you want to seize anything from it,
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  Speaker 1: you have to get the okay from the crown. Which
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  Speaker 1: is a whole other conversation for a whole other time,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. I find it to be absolutely disgusting
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  Speaker 1: that the crown would have anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, aren't they just a figurehead at this point?
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  Speaker 1: They should be treated as such. They're a relic of
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  Speaker 1: the past. And it's time to move forward. Police further
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  Speaker 1: argued obtaining such consent may not be expeditious and seeking
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  Speaker 1: to do so in advance may frustrate the nature and
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the search, they added. According to the same documents,
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  Speaker 1: police considered Andrew a suspect in a number of serious offenses,
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  Speaker 1: including forwarding official reports to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein within
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  Speaker 1: minutes of receiving them. I'm sure that had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the fact that Epstein had Prince Andrew dancing
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  Speaker 1: from the rope. You want to talk about a marionette?
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  Speaker 1: You want to talk about a puppeteer? That was definitely
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. And he brought Andrew in close and then
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  Speaker 1: sunk the trap on him. And that trap, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was Virginia. That's how Jeffrey Epstein sunk his hooks completely
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  Speaker 1: into Andrew. And Andrew's dumbass was more than happy to
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  Speaker 1: just go along with it. During that BBC interview, all
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  Speaker 1: he had to say was I was manipulated by Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Epstein was blackmailing me. Epstein did this. Epstein did that.
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  Speaker 1: But no. Instead, he tried to defend his behavior and
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  Speaker 1: also tried to minimize what Epstein was. The reports related
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  Speaker 1: to Andrew's official trips to trade envoy to Singapore, Vietnam, China,
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  Speaker 1: and Hong Kong in October of 2010. And keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of those trips, he was palling around
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein and Maxwell. So what were they up to?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of shit was happening in the dark? That's
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  Speaker 1: the real question. The documents also contained a statement from
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  Speaker 1: Detective Chief Inspector in charge of the raids at Andrew's
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  Speaker 1: properties to the old Bailey judge who granted the warrants.
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  Speaker 1: The DCI, whose identity was not disclosed, told the judge,
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  Speaker 1: My investigative objectives are to secure relevant evidence in a
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  Speaker 1: timely and secure fashion. And look, that's what you always
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  Speaker 1: want to do, right? As the police... You want to
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  Speaker 1: get in, get everything you need, and get everyone home safely,
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  Speaker 1: including the target of the raid. But if you're giving
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  Speaker 1: people a heads up, or the palace gives them the
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  Speaker 1: heads up, then they're going to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: documentation or the information that you're looking for. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess that was a big fear of the police. Failure
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  Speaker 1: to do so risks loss of evidence and a consequent
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  Speaker 1: loss of public trust and confidence in the investigation. Well,
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  Speaker 1: to play devil's advocate here, so does a bad warrant.
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  Speaker 1: That gives Prince Andrew some tenable ground to stand on. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm being wrongly maligned. They're going after me for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: I did nothing wrong. Just look at what the judge said.
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  Speaker 1: And on and on and on it goes. AMW and
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  Speaker 1: or his representatives may or may not be in a
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  Speaker 1: position to grant access to the premises. Either way, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot risk not having an appropriate legal power to achieve
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  Speaker 1: my objectives. So he brought this to a judge, a
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  Speaker 1: judge signed off on it, and later on it was
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  Speaker 1: found to be not acceptable. Maybe they just shopped for
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  Speaker 1: a judge that was friendly to Andrew and the Crown. What,
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  Speaker 1: you don't think they're venue shopping over in the UK?
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  Speaker 1: They most certainly are. They're doing the same exact shit
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  Speaker 1: that you see here in America. Just dancing to a
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  Speaker 1: different tune. Police also argued it was a matter of
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  Speaker 1: public record that Andrew has previously not engaged with other
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  Speaker 1: investigative strands relating to his alleged involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. He refuses to talk to anybody, refuses to
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  Speaker 1: speak to the authorities, even after he promised to do so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about a guy that was a
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  Speaker 1: person of interest all the way back in 2019. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: A person of interest. They wanted to talk to him,
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  Speaker 1: and they went so far... as to put in an
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  Speaker 1: MLA request with the High Court in England, which was
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  Speaker 1: denied by the way. So we can criticize the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: all day, and they deserve it. But things aren't much
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  Speaker 1: better over in the UK, and anybody who thinks any
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  Speaker 1: different is crazy. This whole entire Epstein situation was shoved
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  Speaker 1: directly under the rug over in the UK too. This
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  Speaker 1: son of a bitch was abusing women in the UK
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  Speaker 1: like it's nobody's business, and using the UK as a
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point for trafficking. And the High Court, the
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  Speaker 1: same High Court by the way, that decided that Andrews'
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  Speaker 1: warrant is not up to snuff, were the same people
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  Speaker 1: protecting Epstein back then too. So do with that as
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  Speaker 1: you will. Andrews' lawyers denied the allegation, adding that TVP
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  Speaker 1: never contacted the former Duke of York or his legal
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  Speaker 1: team to ask whether they would grant access to other
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  Speaker 1: residences or any relevant evidence. Such contact from TVP was
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  Speaker 1: plainly appropriate in circumstances of the media publicizing its investigation,
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  Speaker 1: they said. Yeah, shit over in the UK is weird. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask you if I can come to
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  Speaker 1: your house and raid it? Nah bro, I'm showing up
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  Speaker 1: with SWAT, I'm kicking in the door, I'm waving the 404,
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  Speaker 1: and your bitch ass is going to jail. Yeah. no
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  Speaker 1: explanation in the application of why there were reasonable grounds
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  Speaker 1: for that conclusion given the claimant's good character, his public
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  Speaker 1: role as a former working member of the royal family,
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  Speaker 1: the intense public scrutiny to which he is subject, and
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  Speaker 1: the willingness expressed in respect of other investigations to assist
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  Speaker 1: the police and cooperate. But he didn't do it If
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  Speaker 1: he cooperated, assisted the police, he wouldn't be getting raided.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole entire plan here to recreate what happened,
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild who Prince Andrew is and was, is going
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  Speaker 1: to fail spectacularly. And I'm going to take great joy
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  Speaker 1: in making sure that it does. The former Duke of
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  Speaker 1: York was taken into custody on suspicion of misconduct in
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  Speaker 1: public office on February 19th, his 66th birthday. following claims
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  Speaker 1: that he shared sensitive information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving
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  Speaker 1: as trade envoy for the UK. Andrew was interviewed under
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  Speaker 1: caution before being released under investigation. He denies all allegations
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  Speaker 1: of wrongdoing and the police inquiry remains ongoing. Last week, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Hilliard noted that although the Tamed Valley police and
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  Speaker 1: the King's younger brother came to an agreement regarding the
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  Speaker 1: unlawfulness of the warrants, the forces launched a legal application
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  Speaker 1: against to retain evidence gathered during the searches in February.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be good if they can get that. And
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  Speaker 1: they can get that evidence the proper way. That only
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  Speaker 1: goes to further the case they have against Andrew. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope they're able to do that. The judge stated
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  Speaker 1: that Andrew opposes the bid to retain the evidence with
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  Speaker 1: a hearing in the case to be held in private
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  Speaker 1: in 2027. Consequently, the former prince could remain in limbo
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  Speaker 1: for several more months before learning if he will be
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  Speaker 1: charged with an offense. Well, I have my doubts that
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  Speaker 1: that's going to happen. As far as him getting charged,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just have to see. So we'll continue following along
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  Speaker 1: with this investigation into Andrew as this situation continues to
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  Speaker 1: play out. All the information that goes with this episode
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