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Ex-prince Andrew could lose his Falklands War medal · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was once hailed
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  Speaker 1: a war hero, but the medals he received for service
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  Speaker 1: in the Falklands War could be taken away as his
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  Speaker 1: once glittering life crumbles. The former Duke of York was
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  Speaker 1: a Royal Navy helicopter pilot during the nineteen eighty two conflict,
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  Speaker 1: famously leading a decoy mission and rescuing dozens of sailors
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  Speaker 1: after a cargo ship sank. Bart Buckingham Palace won't say
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  Speaker 1: if the disgraced royal will be allowed to keep the medals.
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  Speaker 1: The UK's Defense Secretary, John Healey has said Mountbatten Windsor
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  Speaker 1: will be stripped of his honorary military rank of Vice
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  Speaker 1: Admiral and the decoration could go with it. Heally declined
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  Speaker 1: to comment on whether Mountbatten Windsor would be able to
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  Speaker 1: keep his medals, including the Campaign Medal he received for
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  Speaker 1: service in the Falklands Conflict. Mount Baton Windsor spent twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years in the Navy between nineteen seventy nine and
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one. In the Falklands conflict. He served
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  Speaker 1: aboard aircraft carrier HMS Invincible flying Sea King helicopters, and
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  Speaker 1: after the war he commanded HMS Courtesmore, a mine countermeasures vessel.
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  Speaker 1: After retiring, he became a UK Trade Envoy and flew
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  Speaker 1: around the world representing Britain's interests in trade and investment.
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  Speaker 1: Mountbatten Windsor was stripped of his royal titles in recent
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  Speaker 1: weeks following the publication of a posthumous memoir by Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Roberts Gufrey. She alleged she was trafficked to Andrew for
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  Speaker 1: sex on multiple occasions when she was a teenager by
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  Speaker 1: the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Mountbatten Windsor has always maintained
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have sex with Gufrey, and claimed in an
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  Speaker 1: interview with the BBC's Newsnight program in twenty nineteen he
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  Speaker 1: had no recollection of ever meeting her. He also said
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  Speaker 1: the stress of the Falkland's conflict changed his life and
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  Speaker 1: was part of the reason why do you phrase story
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be true.
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  Speaker 2: She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating, and
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  Speaker 2: that she went on to have Possibly there's a.
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  Speaker 3: Slight problem with with with with the sweating because I
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  Speaker 3: have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat,
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  Speaker 3: or I didn't sweat at the time, and that was Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered
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  Speaker 3: what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in
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  Speaker 3: the Falklands War when I was shot at, and I
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  Speaker 3: simply it was it was almost impossible for me to sweat.
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  Speaker 3: And it's only because I have done a number of
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  Speaker 3: things in the recent past that I'm starting to be
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  Speaker 3: able to do that again. So I'm afraid to say
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  Speaker 3: that that that that there's a medical condition that says
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  Speaker 3: that I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore, is it possible that you met Virginia Roberts,
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  Speaker 2: dined with her, danced with her in tramp, had sex
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  Speaker 2: with her on another date? No, do you remember meeting
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  Speaker 2: her at all?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know you didn't meet her? Or do you
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  Speaker 2: just not remember? No?
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  Speaker 3: I have I don't know if I've met her, but
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  Speaker 3: now I have no recollection of the meeting.
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  Speaker 1: The disgraced financier Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: prison in twenty nineteen while awaiting trial. Virginia Guffrey, who
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  Speaker 1: settled in Western Australia in the early nineteen nineties, took
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  Speaker 1: her own life earlier this year. Andrew has lost his
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  Speaker 1: home on the Royal estate at Windsor and will soon
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  Speaker 1: move to the King's Norfolk estate of Sandringham into a
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  Speaker 1: house provided for by his elder brother Charles. That story
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  Speaker 1: is live now at the Australian dot com dot au
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  Speaker 1: and come back to the front tomorrow for our look
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