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The Royal Gatekeeper: How Ghislaine Maxwell Opened the Palace Doors For Jeffrey Epstein · The Epstein Chronicles

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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 Glenn Maxwell and her
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role within Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire, there's no doubt that
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she opened up a lot of doors for Epstein that
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would have stayed closed. And there's no doubt that without
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Glenn Maxwell, Epstein would have never achieved the social clim
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that he did. And when we talk about Glenne Maxwell,
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that was her role. Her role was to open those
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doors and to make Jeffrey Epstein look like somebody who
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was respectable, somebody that should be at these kinds of functions,
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and not only that, but also belong. And we're not
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talking about some dinner at REOs. We're talking about an
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invite right into the heart of the monarchy. And of
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course that came on the cotels of the Joe Exotic
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of the Windsor Family, Prince Andrew. But it was her
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relationship with Prince Andrew that opened that door for Jeffrey Epstein,
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and that snake slithered right in. So in this so
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we're going to talk a little bit more about Kallain
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Maxwell and how she was a master manipulator. This article
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was published by the Intelligencer and the headline Kallaine Maxwell
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was more powerful than anyone knew. A new book reveals
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how she used Prince Andrew to benefit Jeffrey Epstein and herself.
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This article was authored by Clive Irving. So far, Prince
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Andrew Dukie York is the only one of the many
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public figures drawn into the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein to
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have had his life essentially destroyed as a result. Well,
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that's true. There's been a lot of people that had
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to step down from their positions, but any kind of
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real consequence that's been far and few between. One of
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the few people that has actually felt the fury is
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Prince Andrew. Now we're not talking about criminal liability, but
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he's a social pariah. Nobody wants to be seen with
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this dude, unless you're like ladyya hobby or something like that.
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Most normal thinking people want nothing to do with this moron.
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And I've said it once and I'll say it again.
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Bill Clinton's bitch ass should be getting the same treatment
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here in America. This man is radioactive when it comes
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to Jeffrey Epstein. And if it wasn't for Donnie Diddle's
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shit in the bed here a lot of this focus
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wouldn't be on him. It would be on Bill Clinton.
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It would be on Prince Andrew, on Glenn Dubin, on
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Leon Black. Well, when you're the man who's in charge
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and you're the one who promised transparency and you fail
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to deliver, well, you're the one holding the bag, especially
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when you had deep ties to the man that everybody's
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talking about. But if anyone should be getting the Prince
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Andrew treatment, it should be Bill Clinton and his wife
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Hillary both. In fact, it now emerges that Maxwell was
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far more than Epstein's main procure and accomplice in the
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trafficking young women for abuse. The idea that she was
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merely a use full sidekick rather than an equal, yeah,
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not an equal when it comes to this part of it. Yeah,
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But when we're talking about the overall operation, Glenn Maxwell
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wasn't in those rooms. She wasn't the one that was
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sitting down figuring out what the compromist was going to be.
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She was a lieutenant. She was somebody that was put
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into play by Epstein. She knew her role, and as
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disgusting as it was, she excelled at it. But that
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was all on the social side. That was opening the doors,
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putting a little bit of shine on Jeffrey Epstein so
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that he is invited and he's welcomed at functions like this.
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On the contrary, she was the true orchestrator of the
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whole Epstein operation. It was she who brought to him
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the skills two entice powerful and celebrated public men into
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becoming regular guests of his New York Palm Beach, New Mexico,
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and private island in the Caribbean. That's a bit overblown.
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Epstein would have still been doing this one way or
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the other with Maxwell involved. It just opened other doors.
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But my guess is if it wasn't Maxwell, it would
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have been somebody else in that position, right, some other
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fallen socialite. Lord knows, we have plenty of degenerate people
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out there that would gladly do some shit like this
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for a monetary or societal gain. Plenty of degenerate people
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in their world. All of this becomes incrementally clear through
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the narrative of a devastating new biography of Andrew entitled
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by Royal historian Andrew Lowney, and the resulting portrait of
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Maxwell gives new gravity to her importance as the last
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keeper of the sex offender's secrets, a kind of personal
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lives walking and maybe talking Epstein file that could have
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enormous potential consequences for many people, including President Trump. I
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don't buy it. Sorry, once again, Kleainne. Maxwell's bitch ass
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is not going to rot in prison if she has
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something to deal with. You really think that she just
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decided to go down with the ship. She was like,
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you know what I'm gonna do my time. I'm not
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ratting anybody out. Does that really sound plausible to you?
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Here's the truth. Glenn Maxwell didn't have anything of consequence
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that the government didn't know already. Now, other people might
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bullshit you, but that's not what we're gonna do here.
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Glenn Maxwell is not the Rosetta stone. She is not
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the key, and she's not gonna be the one that
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gets us to the finish line. Glenn Maxwell is finished.
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Nobody should be using her for any kind of information,
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and nobody should be giving her any kind of credibility. Now, look,
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I would have been more than interested to hear what
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she had to say when she was arrested. You know,
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when she could have been three zero twoed proffered and
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been queen for the day. But no, she had nothing
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to say, right, She had nobody to give up, no
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rocks to overturn, no doors to kick in. So what
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makes you think she has anything of note now? And
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anybody trying to gaslight me about it is going to
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be met with a lot of friction because it's absolute bullshit.
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If Glayne Maxwell had the goods, those goods would have
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been handed over to the FEDS before her ass was
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in Tallahassee eating bolooney sandwiches. It turns out that the
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Duke played an unwitting role in enhancing Maxwell's influence. An
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unwitting role, huh okay. One of her most effective techniques
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was to dangle the chance of meeting him as bait
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for people who would be impressed simply by being in
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the same room as them, something apparently true of Woody Allen, who,
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according to the New York Times report, was wide eyed
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at seeing Andrew at Epstein's New York mansion. Well, there's
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no doubt about that. ABC killed the whole lass story
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from Virginia who was going to spill the beans in
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twenty fifteen to them because they didn't want to lose
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access to the Royal family. That's not speculation, that's a fact.
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Lowney sits a friend of Andrew's warning Glaine is manipulating him,
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and he's too naive to realize it. She's his social
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fixer and he's going along with it. Why because I
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think Epstein fantastically is impressed by it all. It's all
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very premeditated. Lowney himself agrees. Epstein, he tells me, was
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socially gaush and in awe of Maxwell's success in landing
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Big Fish. One hundred percent. She was good at that.
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That was her role that in grooming girls, That's what
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she did. But as far as the logistics, the planning,
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the compromunt, the targets, the building relationships with people like
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Bill Richardson, with people like George Mitchell, that wasn't Glenn Maxwell.
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That was the Jeffrey Epstein especial. And all the girls
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that were around, they were the added bonus, Lowney's book
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is the product of prodigious research. He found three hundred
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well played sources ready to talk to him. To that,
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he added his own extensive knowledge of the royals, built
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on two of his previous revelatory biographies, The Windsor family
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mentor Lord Lewis Mountbatten and his wife Edwena, and then
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a book called Trader, King of the Nazi Stooges the
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Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Judging from how the British
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press has reacted to his new book, he's put the
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final nail on the coffin for hopes that Andrew might
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have had to return the public life after his banishment
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from royal duties in twenty nineteen YO. Anybody who thought
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Prince Andrew was making a comeback is absolutely fooling themselves.
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This is one of the biggest buffoons ever. Well, you
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forgot the interview, you forgot everything that's come after that,
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You forgot the settlement. This man is cooked. Lowney carefully
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uppeals how the fateful relationship between Andrew and Maxwell began
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and developed. During the course of an interview with me
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from his London home, he confirmed that the Duke had
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known Maxwell since she was a student at Oxford in
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the early eighties, a time when Andrew was basking in
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the glory of his part flying a Navy helicopter in
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the eighty two war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
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An action, in which Lownie's book gives full credit to
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the young Prince's courage under fire. I don't care. I
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don't care what you did as far as the war
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in the Falkland Islands. I care about what you did
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with Jeffrey Epstein and what you have not done since.
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Save the war stories for the Corgis. After that, Lowney
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tells it, what began as a casual and occasional affair
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came to resemble something familiar from past royal history, in
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which Maxwell, intellectually capable well beyond Andrews level, morphed into
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the role of a favorite courtesan who, while enjoying overnight
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sleepovers at Buckingham Palace, passed on gossip from politically wider
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world than the one familiar to the Prince. Andrew's marriage
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to Sarah Ferguson in eighty six, a large part of
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Downey's book gives an one for giving account of the
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marriage and its excesses, became no more than a short
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interruption in Andrew's friendship with Maxwell. By the end of
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the nineties, Maxwell had returned as an influencer in Andrews's
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life and introduced him to a new friend Jeffrey Epstein.
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The date of Andrews's first meeting with Epstein as disputed.
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The Due claims that first met Epstein early in ninety nine,
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but Lowney quotes andrew private secretary Alistair Watson claiming that
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they met in the early nineteen nineties. Whatever the case,
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in ninety nine, with Maxwell's help, Epstein enjoyed a rapidly
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opening path into the world of the Windsors. In July,
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Andrew invited Maxwell and Epstein to stay at the Lodge
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on the Balmoral estate in the Scottish Highlands, where they
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posed for a trophy photograph, an inappropriate gesture by Andrew,
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considering that this was his mother's favorite royal retreat. She
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was not there at the time. Balmoral was followed in
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December by Sandringham in winter, possibly the bleakest of the
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royal playgrounds, when Epstein and Maxwell arrived for a two
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day shooting party in a plane given access to a
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Royal Air Force airfield usually reserved for VIPs, Andrew threw
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a surprise thirty ninth birthday party for Maxwell. By this time,
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more people were having misgivings about Maxwell's influence on Andrew.
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A friend of his ex wife warned, we must break
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the hole that Colayne has on him. But they didn't,
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and they never did. Klenn Maxwell and Prince Andrew were
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still friends. I have zero doubt about that. Meanwhile, back
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in Florida, Maxwell was selecting victims for Epstein. Most infamously,
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she found Virginia Roberts at the spa at mar A
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Lago and joined Epstein in sexually assaulting her. That led
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later to Maxwell's small townhouse in London that functioned partly
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as kind of a honey trap. That's where the picture
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of Andrew with his arm around Roberts was taken, even
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though Andrew denied it ever happened with Maxwell looking on.
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Imagine denying that the picture was real. That's what him
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and his supporters tried to do. We know that's not true.
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And furthermore, according to everybody in the know, the FBI
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has that photo. So let's see that original photo and
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let's kill that Prince Andrew narrative right here. And now.
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Maxwell seems to have had an almost mesmeric power of enticement.
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She was very good at spotting who was susceptible, and
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she had become indispensable to Epstein in New York and London.
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She was far better socially connected than he was. Lowney
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told me that when Epstein discovered that he was sharing
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her sexual skills with Andrew, far from being annoyed, he
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got a kick from it. Well, according to reports, not
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the first or last woman that they share it either.
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One of the ironies of Maxwell's social assent is that
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she became a consummate insider, something that our tycoon father,
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Robert Maxwell, had strived to become all his life and
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never became. His checkered business career endedn't scandal and a
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probable suicide drowning in nineteen ninety one from the yacht
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he had named for her. The Lady Golaine. Lowney reports
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from bank records that between nineteen ninety nine and two
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thousand and seven, Epstein gave her more than thirty million
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dollars to restore her to the lifestyle to which she
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had become accustomed. Lowney's book has now delivered the most
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damning portrait ever made of the harm done to the
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monarchy that is directly traceable to the hooking up of
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Maxwell and Andrew. It vividly cements into place the portrait
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of the Duke of York as a kind of eighteenth
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century debouched dunderhead prince. However, in Britain, the most controversial
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part of the indictment is Lowney's view that Queen Elizabeth's
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indulgence of her son's cupidity and moral carelessness was greater
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than we previously knew, that she allowed it to happen.
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What do you mean we don't say we I knew.
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I told you all. I've told you that the Queen
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was protecting Andrew and that she knew exactly what he
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was up to and what his buddy Epstein was up to.
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You think the Queen of England had no idea? Okay? Sure?
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He tells me that the day before we spoke he
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had received a warning from someone in the Windsors inner circle.
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Be careful. You were going too far bringing the Queen
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into this. The Queen is sacred, No, she's not sacred
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to who you? Maybe not me? Seventeen seventy six did
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away with all the sacredness when it comes to kings
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and queens. So Queen Elizabeth, she means nothing to me,
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just another enabler of pedophiles and somebody that defended Epstein.
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Defended Maxwell, defended her own son, and let's not forget
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about Jimmy Saville either. So yeah, I don't believe the
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Queen cared one bit about what Epstein was up to.
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I don't think she cared that Andrew was up to
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it with him. What she cared about was that he
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got caught. That's what she cared about. That, of course,
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is not what matters about this book. Beyond Britain, there
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are other inner circles that now have caused a hope
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that their secrets remain sealed from view, and Glenn Maxwell
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knows who they are. So the Glann Maxwell certainly was
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a big part of Epstein's social climb. And without Glenn Maxwell,
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he doesn't have Prince Andrew on the hook. That's a fact.
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But Prince Andrew knew exactly what he was getting into
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and he chose to be there anyway. So when all
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is said and done, Prince Andrew has the shoulder of
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the blame. Nobody forced him to do it. He could
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have been with anyone he wanted, anywhere he wanted, and
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he chose to be with Epstein. And for the first
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time in Prince Andrew's life, he found out that sometimes
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our choices have consequences, and in the case of the
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Joe exotic of the Windsor family, that consequence is exile
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and nobody, in my opinion, deserves it more. All of
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