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Andrew Excluded From Major Royal Ceremony as Isolation Deepens · 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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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. One of the most important things for Prince
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  Speaker 1: Andrew has always been his status. And that's because he
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  Speaker 1: knew that that was the vehicle to get him where
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to go. And he had no problem using
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  Speaker 1: that status to do exactly that. And of all the
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  Speaker 1: people that have faced repercussions over Jeffrey Epstein and their
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him, I think that Prince Andrew has probably
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  Speaker 1: suffered the most. And that's because he's lost all these
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  Speaker 1: prestigious titles. And he's not even a prince anymore. So
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  Speaker 1: if anybody has faced repercussions, it's been Prince Andrew. And
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest blows to him is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he's been uninvited from every single family event.
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  Speaker 1: This dude's not invited over for anything. Whether it's Christmas
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  Speaker 1: or the Order of the Garter Ceremony. So today we
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  Speaker 1: have an article from LBC and the headline. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
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  Speaker 1: has been left feeling more isolated than ever after his
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  Speaker 1: exclusion from a major royal event. Imagine all the allegations
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  Speaker 1: that have been made against Andrew and that's what he's
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  Speaker 1: worried about, not being invited for tea and crumpets. The
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  Speaker 1: King and Queen and Prince William donned black velvet ostrich
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  Speaker 1: plumed hats and robes on Monday as they processed through
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  Speaker 1: the grounds outside Windsor Castle for the Ancient Order of
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  Speaker 1: the Garter Ceremony. All this pomp and circumstance that happens
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  Speaker 1: with the monarchy is very odd to me. Like, the
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  Speaker 1: Order of the Garter? I mean, maybe back in the
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  Speaker 1: year like 1612 or some shit, that's cool, but I
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  Speaker 1: really just don't see the relevance in current times. Unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you're talking about dress-up time for a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of rich, well-to-do people and royals. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it makes sense then, but I think that most outside
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  Speaker 1: observers think it's a waste of money and a waste
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  Speaker 1: of time. Absent from the procession was the disgraced former
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  Speaker 1: Duke of York, who was stripped of his order of
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  Speaker 1: the garter on her last October over his links to
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  Speaker 1: the sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. A source told the Daily
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  Speaker 1: Express that garter day would be a really tough day
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  Speaker 1: for Andrew. They said, he's become used to watching his
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  Speaker 1: family celebrate trooping without him, but garter day will be
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  Speaker 1: a really tough day for him. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: days that reminds him of all that he's lost. He's
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  Speaker 1: feeling more isolated than ever. He's completely alone. Breaking news,
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares. If anybody has earned their fate, it's this dude.
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  Speaker 1: Of all the people we talk about, I know I've
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  Speaker 1: said it before, but I'll say it again. Andrew sickens
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  Speaker 1: me the most. This man had the whole entire world
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  Speaker 1: handed up to him from the time he was born.
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  Speaker 1: He could have done anything with his life. And this
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  Speaker 1: is what he chose. So I don't give a damn
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  Speaker 1: if you feel isolated. If it was up to me,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be shipped off to Antarctica. The disgraced royal, who
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  Speaker 1: became a member of the order in 2006, had previously
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  Speaker 1: joined in the festivities and procession. Last year, he attended
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  Speaker 1: the non-public pre-ceremony lunch, but he has now been removed
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  Speaker 1: from the order. Well, yeah, when you're this disgraced, what
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  Speaker 1: are you supposed to do? Like, should the king and
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  Speaker 1: the royal family just ignore it like they did for
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  Speaker 1: all the years leading up to this? Because I assure you,
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  Speaker 1: that's why they're in the position to That they're in now.
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  Speaker 1: If they would have just met this head on. And
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  Speaker 1: thrown Andrew to the wolves where he belonged. Then they
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  Speaker 1: would have avoided all of this. And the queen's legacy
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  Speaker 1: would be intact. But unfortunately it's not. And anybody who's
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  Speaker 1: a neutral observer. Who looks at how this all went down.
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  Speaker 1: Can't help but walk away and say. Look the queen.
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  Speaker 1: Was at fault. She protected him. She enabled him. And
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  Speaker 1: she could have made sure that Andrew did the right
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  Speaker 1: thing instead. But she didn't. So now her legacy is
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  Speaker 1: being dragged down by this anchor known as Andrew. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: your bitch ass should be removed from every order. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they should send his ass to the space station. It's
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  Speaker 1: believed that this is the first year that Andrew has
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  Speaker 1: not attended in any capacity at all. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was just arrested. There's a lot going on as far
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  Speaker 1: as his own case and the investigation in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind what's going on in America. So there was
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  Speaker 1: zero shot that he was going to this thing at all.
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  Speaker 1: privately or publicly. His complete exclusion comes after the King
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  Speaker 1: took away all of his remaining titles last year, along
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  Speaker 1: with his royal title, Prince and Duke of York, as
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  Speaker 1: controversy mounted over his links with Jeffrey Epstein. And I
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  Speaker 1: know we all want to give Charles credit for doing
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  Speaker 1: what he's done, but he's had no choice. Do you
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  Speaker 1: really think he wants to do this? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: he wants to deal with Andrew in any capacity whatsoever?
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  Speaker 1: But he has to. and his hand is forced. But
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  Speaker 1: for the royal family, the best scenario would have been
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  Speaker 1: for all of this to continue to be whitewashed and downplayed.
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  Speaker 1: That was the strategy up until recently, up until these
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  Speaker 1: files were released, and absolutely destroyed their narrative. But leading
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  Speaker 1: up to that, forget it. The palace had nothing to say.
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  Speaker 1: The palace had no kind of plan to deal with
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, and now the queen has just passed
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  Speaker 1: the buck to King Charles. And we all know he's
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  Speaker 1: not equipped to deal with this. The dude is old
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  Speaker 1: and he has cancer. Never mind all the other issues
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  Speaker 1: going on. Andrew's now living in Norfolk while police investigate
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  Speaker 1: allegations of misconduct in public office. He was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: suspicion of misconduct in public office in February and then
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  Speaker 1: released under investigation. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's he going to do, admit it? Well, you guys
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  Speaker 1: got me. Shucks, I'm caught. Everything you said about me
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  Speaker 1: is true. All the rumors about Epstein, those are true.
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  Speaker 1: What Virginia said, that's true. I mean, come on. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to say a damn thing. I think he
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  Speaker 1: learned his lesson with that dumbass interview on BBC with
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  Speaker 1: Emily Maitlis. Probably the worst decision somebody has ever made.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine being as guilty as Andrew looks and then you
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  Speaker 1: go up there and you have this interview on BBC
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  Speaker 1: And you're talking about kits? You're talking about pizza joints?
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about not sweating? And then, as the cherry
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  Speaker 1: on top, you leave that interview thinking you did a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Oh yeah, things went great. I'm a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna believe my story. Meanwhile, nobody believed it. And
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  Speaker 1: after we all picked our jaws up, we let them know.
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  Speaker 1: But this bumbling fool thought he did a great job
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  Speaker 1: and thought that the idea... Of sitting down for that interview.
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  Speaker 1: Was top notch. Well guess what. Just like everything else.
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  Speaker 1: That this man touched. It turned to shit. He was
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  Speaker 1: last seen at the weekend. Just hours before the king's
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  Speaker 1: official birthday parade. Trooping the color. Took place in London.
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  Speaker 1: The order of the garter. Founded by Edward the third.
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  Speaker 1: In 1348. Is the oldest chivalry order. In Britain. I
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  Speaker 1: mean cool. I love the history. And I certainly love. Medieval.
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  Speaker 1: English history. Some of the coolest shit in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got the War of the Roses. You
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  Speaker 1: have the conquest from William the Conqueror. You know, just
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  Speaker 1: a whole host of world-changing events. And I really find
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  Speaker 1: the history of England to be super fascinating. One of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite topics. But with that said, all these different
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  Speaker 1: orders and all of these different, you know, groups that
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  Speaker 1: they have, it's all outdated. Now, the flip side of
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  Speaker 1: that argument is that it's about tradition. and there is
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  Speaker 1: a valid argument to be made there as well. 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Tradition is important, but so is holding people like Andrew
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  Speaker 1: accountable when they should be held accountable. Thousands of spectators
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  Speaker 1: gathered to watch the procession, which saw the Knights of
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  Speaker 1: the Order of the Garter walk down to St. George's
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  Speaker 1: Chapel after their annual lunch. Among those in the procession
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  Speaker 1: were the King, the Queen, traditionally at the rear of
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  Speaker 1: the Knights, while further ahead was the Prince of Wales,
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  Speaker 1: Duke of Edinburgh, and Princess Royal. The king, who is
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  Speaker 1: sovereign of the garter, personally chooses 24 companions who have
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  Speaker 1: held public office, contributed in a particular way to national life,
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  Speaker 1: or served the monarch personally. So, all of his buddies.
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  Speaker 1: Got it. It's a big-ass club, folks, and you are
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  Speaker 1: not invited. Other garter knights included former Prime Minister Sir
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  Speaker 1: Tony Blair, Lord Patton, the last British governor of Hong Kong,
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  Speaker 1: and West End musical Impresario, Lord Lloyd Webber, all in
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  Speaker 1: their blue velvet mantles and black velvet hats with white
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  Speaker 1: ostrich plumes. I'm pretty sure people that are starving in
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  Speaker 1: the UK don't give a shit. People that can't pay
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  Speaker 1: their bills don't give a shit. And people being targeted
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  Speaker 1: by grooming gangs, sure they don't give a shit, but sure,
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  Speaker 1: have fun with your little costume party. During the St.
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  Speaker 1: George service, three new garter knights were invested, historian and
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  Speaker 1: former journalist, Lord Peter Hennessy, ex-Cabinet Secretary and Head of
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  Speaker 1: Civil Service Lord Gus O'Donnell, and former Chief Justice Lord
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  Speaker 1: Ian Burnett. So look, as far as Andrew goes, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that he's going to be invited to any
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff ever again. And when you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about people that are being punished, Andrew most certainly
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  Speaker 1: is being punished. Now it's not what it should be,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you believe that what Virginia was saying is true,
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  Speaker 1: but at least there are some kind of repercussions. And
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  Speaker 1: if you want the truth, I thought Andrew would be
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  Speaker 1: the last person to be dealing with them. I always
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  Speaker 1: thought that Andrew... would come out of this pretty much unscathed. Oh, sure,
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  Speaker 1: his reputation took a hit. But besides that, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think that Andrew would end up facing any real consequence.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly never thought I'd see him get arrested. So who
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  Speaker 1: knows what will happen next? We know that the investigation
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  Speaker 1: has expanded, and we know that the investigators are looking
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  Speaker 1: for a whole host of crimes, whether that has to
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  Speaker 1: do with public corruption or anything else. If there's anything
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  Speaker 1: to find, I think they'll find it. But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm sure of? I'm sure that Prince Andrew's days
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  Speaker 1: of playing dress-up and LARPing around, like some great knight,
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  Speaker 1: are long over. And if anybody has earned their fate,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly the Joe Exotic of the Windsor family. All
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  Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
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  Speaker 1: in the description box.