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Mega Edition: The Royal Family Had Other Questionable Associations Besides Epstein (8/27/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Prince Andrew, Prince Charles,
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Speaker 1: the whole entire royal family it would seem, have had
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Speaker 1: some pretty questionable relationships with some pretty questionable people. At
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Speaker 1: the forefront of our conversation, obviously, it has been Prince
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Speaker 1: Andrew and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. But Epstein is
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Speaker 1: not the only person that Prince Andrew was palling around
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Speaker 1: with that we would consider a scumbag. Now, we have
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Speaker 1: talked about all of the questionable people that Prince Andrew
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Speaker 1: hangs out with or hung out with, from Peter Nygaard
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Speaker 1: all the way up to arms runners to Jeffrey Epstein to,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he was palling around with Jimmy Savile at
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Speaker 1: some point as well. But in this article that we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about this morning from Newsweek, We're going
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Speaker 1: to rehash a few of those relationships. We're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about some of those people that have brought embarrassment
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Speaker 1: to the royal family, to Prince Andrew, Prince Charles, because
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Speaker 1: of who they are, what they're involved in, and the
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Speaker 1: fact that it seems anyway that the whole entire royal
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Speaker 1: family just doesn't care. I think they're still living in
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Speaker 1: the days where they think they can control the narrative.
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Speaker 1: You know, for a long time, that's how they existed, right?
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Speaker 1: Where nothing got out that they didn't want to get out.
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Speaker 1: And now things have changed a whole lot. Social media,
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Speaker 1: the whole world is connected. It's very hard to keep
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Speaker 1: people quiet nowadays like we were talking about with Jimmy Savile, right?
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Speaker 1: When he was active from 1955 through, oh I don't know,
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Speaker 1: up to 96 to 2000 or so before the internet
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Speaker 1: was really a thing. How could anyone get together and
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Speaker 1: congregate and talk about this? Especially if you didn't live
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Speaker 1: in the same city or the same town or whatever.
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Speaker 1: How would these people be able to put their stories together?
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Speaker 1: But with the way social media is nowadays and the
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Speaker 1: way the whole world is connected, it's a whole different
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Speaker 1: ballgame for these predators. And as you see with Jimmy Savile,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't long before the rumors were flying. And the reason...
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Speaker 1: is because people had a forum to do that. So
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Speaker 1: the royal family obviously can't control what people say on
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Speaker 1: the internet, what I say on my podcast, what you
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Speaker 1: listen to, what you download. They have no control over that.
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Speaker 1: So they don't have the narrative anymore. And once you
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Speaker 1: lose the narrative, it becomes a very dicey situation for
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Speaker 1: your power structure, right? Because if you can't control the narrative,
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Speaker 1: then you can't control the public opinion. And when the
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Speaker 1: public opinion changes... Usually it's the people on the top
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Speaker 1: that feel that the most. So controlling the narrative is
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Speaker 1: a big deal. And now that they can't do that,
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Speaker 1: that they can't, you know, deploy their loyalists to control
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Speaker 1: the story, people who want to see the royal family
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Speaker 1: come out on top, just like BBC didn't run the
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Speaker 1: shit on Savile. It's the same thing, right? So in
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Speaker 1: this new world, that is not possible, right? And we're
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Speaker 1: seeing that as these royals are outed for their nonsense
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Speaker 1: at a more and more frequent rate. So let's jump
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Speaker 1: into this article from Newsweek this morning, and let's see
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Speaker 1: what Jack Royston has cooked up for everybody. Headline, Prince
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Speaker 1: Andrew to Prince Charles, royal family's most ill-advised friendships. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's been plenty. I mean, and this is just a
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Speaker 1: drop in the bucket, right? You could go back in
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Speaker 1: history and go all the way back to the Nazi
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Speaker 1: ties and All of it. But for this article's sake,
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Speaker 1: we're just going to look at these few examples. Prince
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Speaker 1: Andrew's notorious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is just one in
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Speaker 1: a series of the royal family's controversial connections. Say that again.
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Speaker 1: And the crazy part is, these are the ones we
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Speaker 1: know about. What sort of scumbags are these people really
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Speaker 1: breaking bread with? The worst people in the world, I'm guessing.
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Speaker 1: Royal family members meet some of the most famous and
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Speaker 1: powerful people in the world, but they can also be
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Speaker 1: targets for people with bad intent. Yeah, that's kind of
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Speaker 1: giving them an out there, uh, Mr. Royston, I don't
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Speaker 1: buy that. These people should be sharp and savvy enough
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Speaker 1: to know if they're being, uh, maneuvered into becoming an
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Speaker 1: asset or a source of information. Ridiculous. You don't think
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Speaker 1: that the, uh, The royal schooling should include signs that
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Speaker 1: you're being targeted to be an asset. Or furthermore, what's
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Speaker 1: your security detail up to? Aren't the people of England
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Speaker 1: paying a fuck ton of dough for Prince Andrew's security detail?
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Speaker 1: Where are they at? They ain't running no background checks
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Speaker 1: on nobody. Prince Charles and Britain's most notorious pedophile. Boy,
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Speaker 1: isn't that lovely to read. Remember now, the next king
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Speaker 1: of England, Prince Charles, he was homies with Jimmy Savile. And?
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Speaker 1: So was Princess Diana. I know that rankles some people
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Speaker 1: to hear, but hey, I don't care. Again, I don't
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Speaker 1: care about none of these royals. None of them mean
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Speaker 1: anything to me. They're just regular people like anybody else
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Speaker 1: who should be criticized when they do wrong. And the
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Speaker 1: fact that Savile had run of the whole entire keep,
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Speaker 1: it's a bit much for me to swallow, honestly. Nobody knew, huh?
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Speaker 1: Nobody had any idea that that weird-ass dude was out
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Speaker 1: there touching people. I am sorry, I do not believe that.
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Speaker 1: Prince Charles and Princess Diana became friends with a famous
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Speaker 1: UK children's entertainer, Jimmy Savile, who was exposed after his
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Speaker 1: death as a prolific pedophile, rapist, and necrophiliac with 450 victims. Now,
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Speaker 1: he was being exposed before his death, by the way.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to listen, though. He worked, you know, the
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Speaker 1: BBC was the company that was running his show, so
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Speaker 1: they didn't want to go too hard against him. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they told the people who came up with the original
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Speaker 1: information that they couldn't run their report. Huh, kind of
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Speaker 1: sounds like ABC covering for Jeffrey Epstein, doesn't it? Hmm, interesting. But,
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Speaker 1: I mean, really? Necrophilia? That's where we're at as a society, huh?
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Speaker 1: This sick, disgusting individual running around that's not bad enough
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Speaker 1: that he has to hurt and abuse the living. He
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Speaker 1: has to defile the dead as well. A new Netflix documentary,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Savile, A British Horror Story, shows Charles asks the
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Speaker 1: BBC presenter for PR advice a month after the December
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Speaker 1: 1988 Lockerbie bombing. So, hey, Jimmy, after you're done digging
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Speaker 1: up a corpse or two, You think you could come
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Speaker 1: on over and give me and Mommy Old Lady over
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Speaker 1: here a bit of an intelligence breakdown, a rundown on
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Speaker 1: what we should say? A PR push? I mean, really?
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Speaker 1: Out of all the people in the grips of the Queen,
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Speaker 1: this is the man that they need to get advice from?
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Speaker 1: Some children's entertainer? Why, will Jimmel fix it, huh? Fucking wild, folks.
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Speaker 1: In January 1989, Charles wrote, Perhaps I am wrong. No,
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Speaker 1: you're wrong. But you are the bloke who knows what's
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Speaker 1: going on. What I really need is a list of
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Speaker 1: suggestions from you. I so want to get to parts
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Speaker 1: of the country that others don't get to reach. So
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Speaker 1: to get to the common man, Prince Andrew, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Prince Charles thinks it's a good idea to have Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Savile as his point guy. Now, look, I'm not English, right?
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Speaker 1: I didn't grow up with Jimmy Savile. Grew up with
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Speaker 1: our own sick fucks here in America. But the fact
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Speaker 1: is this. You really think that the king-in-waiting, the crown prince,
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Speaker 1: should be getting advice from a children's entertainer? You don't
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Speaker 1: have advisors around you, dude. Where's the Privy Council? Furthermore,
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Speaker 1: why are they even employed if they're not able to
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Speaker 1: give you the advice that's needed? You have to go
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Speaker 1: off the reservation the same way Leon Black did with
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein? None of it makes sense. Once again, none
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Speaker 1: of it makes sense. Savile replied with an action plan,
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Speaker 1: and a further letter from the prince confirmed he had
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Speaker 1: shown the recommendations to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Wow,
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Speaker 1: big haughty company you got there, guy. And not only that,
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Speaker 1: let's remember, this guy got knighted by the queen too.
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Speaker 1: So even though those rumors were swirling, even though there
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Speaker 1: was all the talk about what he was, what he
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Speaker 1: was up to, the whole thing, the queen and the
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Speaker 1: royal family still thought it would be a good idea
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Speaker 1: to knight him. Charles was not the only person Savile convinced.
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Speaker 1: He was also pictured with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Speaker 1: A little bit more than that. It looked like Thatcher
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Speaker 1: was a huge, huge proponent of Jimmy Savile. And she
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Speaker 1: pushed really, really hard for him to get that knighthood. Oh,
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Speaker 1: what do you know? Prince Charles again. Prince Charles and
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Speaker 1: the pedophile bishop. Folks, I don't know about you, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know one pedophile. How is it that these
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Speaker 1: people have a whole menagerie of them? Prince Charles offered
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Speaker 1: support to Church of England Bishop Peter Ball even after
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Speaker 1: the clergyman was given a police caution in 1992 following
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Speaker 1: abuse allegations. Look, if there's a bishop or a priest
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Speaker 1: and someone says that that bishop or priest is diddling them,
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Speaker 1: you should probably pay attention and you should probably listen.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. A police caution? Hey, look, dude.
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Speaker 1: I heard you were diddling some kids. You better stop
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Speaker 1: or you're going to go to jail. What, what? How
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Speaker 1: about putting me in jail right away? What does that
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Speaker 1: even mean? A police caution. Ultimately, Ball was jailed for
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Speaker 1: 32 months in 2015. for sexual offenses against 17 teenagers
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Speaker 1: and young men, but only after a prolonged period when
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Speaker 1: his crimes were minimized by a variety of establishment friends.
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Speaker 1: An independent inquiry heard in 2018. Oh, well, what do
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Speaker 1: you know? More covering up for pedophiles. Sure seems like
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Speaker 1: the way of it, isn't it? Now remember, he was
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Speaker 1: given this caution in 92. If they would have done
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Speaker 1: their job the same way if the cops in America
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Speaker 1: would have done their job with Epstein in 95, all
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Speaker 1: of this could have been avoided. All of these people,
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Speaker 1: 17 teenagers and young men, could have had a different life.
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Speaker 1: But the police are too busy fucking about. Too busy
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Speaker 1: protecting the rich and powerful. When really, those are the
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Speaker 1: people they should be going after. Forget hanging out in
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Speaker 1: the hood. Why don't you go down to Wall Street
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Speaker 1: for a little while? Among evidence at the inquiry, Prince
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Speaker 1: Charles wrote Ball a letter in February 1995. I wish
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Speaker 1: I could do more. I feel so desperately strongly about
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Speaker 1: the monstrous wrongs that have been done to you and
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Speaker 1: the way that you have been treated. And this mold
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Speaker 1: foe right here, Prince Charles has the audacity to come
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Speaker 1: out like he's some kind of shining light with Prince Andrew, huh?
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Speaker 1: The whole entire thing's corrupt. The whole entire thing is
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Speaker 1: broken and decrepit and it should be destroyed. Quoted by
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Speaker 1: The Guardian, one victim, Cliff James, told BBC documentary Exposed,
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Speaker 1: The Church's Darkest Secret, he kept mentioning his friendship with
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Speaker 1: Prince Charles in a flippant way, as anyone would talk
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Speaker 1: about a friend, but he's talking about Prince Charles. Where
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Speaker 1: he was having a friendship with someone as low down
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Speaker 1: as me, the next minute he's dropping into conversation, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's counselor to royalty. It just reinforced his specialness and
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Speaker 1: the idea that he was impregnable. See how all of
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Speaker 1: these perverts and monsters armor themselves in their relationships with
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Speaker 1: these so-called good members, upstanding members of society. Sorry. The
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Speaker 1: second any one of these perverts uses you as some
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Speaker 1: kind of, like, evidence or reasoning, oh, well, Bill Gates
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Speaker 1: was there, I automatically think that Bill Gates is a
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Speaker 1: sick fuck, too. How about that? Some of Ball's victims
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Speaker 1: were as young as 15, and the inquiry ruled the
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Speaker 1: Church of England played a role in covering up the
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Speaker 1: evidence for more than 20 years, the Independent reported. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: remember that next time they're passing the plate around, folks.
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Speaker 1: Meghan Markle's chandelier earrings. All right, this one's a bit ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: The Duchess of Sussex never met Mohammed bin Salman and
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Speaker 1: certainly would not count him as a friend, but she
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Speaker 1: did accept earrings from the Saudi ruler as a wedding present.
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Speaker 1: She wore them twice in October and November of 2018,
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Speaker 1: even as the world's media was full of early stories
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Speaker 1: about MBS's link to the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Speaker 1: The move backfired in the days before her Oprah interview
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Speaker 1: in March 2021, when the origin of the earrings was
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Speaker 1: leaked to the UK newspaper, The Times. Yeah, that's okay.
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Speaker 1: Not a good look, obviously, right? It's basically blood diamonds,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't hold a candle to Prince Charles fortifying
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Speaker 1: the reputation of some rapist priest. Certainly doesn't hold a
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Speaker 1: candle to the Jimmy Savile relationship or the Jeffrey Epstein relationship.
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Speaker 1: So I don't even know why that would even be
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Speaker 1: added into this, but here we are. Prince Andrew and
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Speaker 1: the Fashion Tycoon. Haha, now this is more like it, folks.
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Speaker 1: The Duke of York's most famous ill-advised friendship was with
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, but he was also under scrutiny after the
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Speaker 1: arrest of Peter Nygaard, who is awaiting trial in Canada.
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Speaker 1: The businessman, 80, will face six counts of sexual assault
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Speaker 1: and three of forcible confinement between 1987 and 2006. Another
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Speaker 1: sick fuck that Prince Andrew counted as a friend. Another
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Speaker 1: one of these so-called tycoons, magnates of business, who think
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Speaker 1: it's a good idea to confine people to their homes
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Speaker 1: or wherever it is, rape them, abuse them, sexually assault them,
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Speaker 1: and act like everything is A-okay. Nygard has been accused
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Speaker 1: of luring girls as young as 18 to his Caribbean mansion,
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Speaker 1: where they were drugged and raped, UK newspaper The Times reported.
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Speaker 1: The newspaper reported that Andrew stayed at Nygard's mansion in
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Speaker 1: the Bahamas in 2002. There is nothing to suggest the
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Speaker 1: prince knew anything about the abuse. No, he doesn't know anything.
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Speaker 1: He's never known anything. He'll never know anything. He's just,
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Speaker 1: you know, a guy floating through life, folks. You know,
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Speaker 1: like that pothead friend of yours in high school that
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Speaker 1: would show up and, you know, somehow still pass, but
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Speaker 1: just floating through? That's Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell,
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Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Epstein. Prince Andrew's most notorious friendships were with
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and the New York financier's former lover. How
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Speaker 1: about former partner in crime, former human trafficker, former asset?
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Speaker 1: Can we get to the actual script here, Mr. Royston?
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Speaker 1: Come on now, friend. The Duke said he had a
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Speaker 1: stronger friendship with Maxwell, who introduced him to Epstein in
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Speaker 1: the late 1990s. Again, as if that's any better, right? Oh, well,
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Speaker 1: I was friends with Ghislaine, not with Epstein. Well, they're
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Speaker 1: both human traffickers, you stupid fuck. However, Andrew was forced
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Speaker 1: to retire from public life following allegations the pair forced
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Speaker 1: a 17-year-old to have sex with him in 2001. Virginia
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Speaker 1: Roberts sued him in a New York civil lawsuit connected
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Speaker 1: to the alleged crime, which the royal settled in March
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Speaker 1: of 2020 for an undisclosed sum estimated by experts to
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Speaker 1: be in the ballpark of 10 million. Experts who? You
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Speaker 1: mean the royalist experts? Sometimes I question this Jack Royston fella.
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Speaker 1: More like 17 million, my friend, okay? Unless you're saying
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Speaker 1: 10 million pounds. Epstein was convicted of soliciting a minor
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Speaker 1: for prostitution, no such thing as a minor that could
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Speaker 1: be a prostitute, but here we are, in 2008 and
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Speaker 1: died in his jail cell in an apparent suicide in
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Speaker 1: August 2019, facing more severe charges. Maxwell was convicted of
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Speaker 1: sex trafficking and grooming girls to have sex with in
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Speaker 1: December 2022 and to wait sentencing in June. Well, folks,
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Speaker 1: there you have it, a few of the scandals. A
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Speaker 1: few of the friendships that have rocked the royal family
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Speaker 1: in recent years. And if these are the ones we
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Speaker 1: know about, can you imagine what is hidden behind the curtain?
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Speaker 1: If you'd like to contact me, you can do that
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Speaker 1: link that goes with this episode can be found in
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Speaker 1: the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the program. The royal family has had quite the run lately,
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Speaker 1: haven't they? You have Prince Andrew. You have the whole
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Speaker 1: situation with Meghan Markle. And now, well, Prince Charles has
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Speaker 1: his own problems to deal with. As reports are coming
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Speaker 1: out saying that he accepted, on behalf of his charity,
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Speaker 1: of course, over a million dollars from a donation from
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Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden's family. I mean, look, Because Osama Bin
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Speaker 1: Laden is a terrorist and a murderer doesn't automatically mean
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Speaker 1: that everyone in his family is, right? That would be
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Speaker 1: ridiculous to have that sort of view on life. Somebody
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Speaker 1: does something wrong, their whole family is held responsible, right?
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Speaker 1: But when you're the Prince of England getting ready to
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Speaker 1: be the king, you can't be involved with people like this.
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Speaker 1: The optics are not good for you, especially considering... This
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Speaker 1: is in 2013, and your son is over there in
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Speaker 1: Afghanistan fighting these people. But yet you're going to take
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Speaker 1: a donation from your charity, from Bin Laden's brother? At
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Speaker 1: what point is enough enough for the royal family? The
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Speaker 1: greed that they display on a regular basis is enough
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Speaker 1: to sicken me. And I know there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people out there that are big fans of the royal family,
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Speaker 1: and hey, that's great. You know what I always say.
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Speaker 1: You're free to like whoever you want to like and
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Speaker 1: free to dislike whoever you want to dislike. I'm not
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Speaker 1: here to convince anybody of shit. I'm saying personally, I
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Speaker 1: find them reprehensible. I find their behavior disgusting. And if
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Speaker 1: it was me who had to call them king and queen,
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Speaker 1: I'd be sick to my stomach every single time I
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Speaker 1: had to do it. Because can you imagine what they
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Speaker 1: think about you? You think they care about you? All
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Speaker 1: the people that stand there and wait for them in parades.
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Speaker 1: And you really think the queen or the king or
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Speaker 1: anyone from the royal family is going to come to
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Speaker 1: your rescue this winter? When there's gas shortages and power
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Speaker 1: shortages and people can't heat their homes? Or are they
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Speaker 1: going to be swimming around in the money that they
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Speaker 1: got from the Bin Ladens? You tell me which one's
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Speaker 1: more likely. Today's article is from The Guardian. The author
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Speaker 1: of this article is Nadeem Badshah. Headline, Prince Charles accepted
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Speaker 1: one million pounds from family of Osama bin Laden, a
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Speaker 1: report claims. The Prince of Wales received a one million
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Speaker 1: pound donation for his charity from relatives of Osama bin Laden,
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Speaker 1: according to a report. I mean, right off the bat.
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Speaker 1: just the entry into this article is all bad. The
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Speaker 1: optics are terrible. Could you pick a worse family as
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Speaker 1: far as public perception goes to get some money from?
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Speaker 1: You couldn't grift from anyone else. Plenty of people want
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Speaker 1: to give you money, I'm sure. You guys have made
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Speaker 1: a cottage industry of it, meaning the royals. The Sunday
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Speaker 1: Times alleged that the future king accepted the payment from
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Speaker 1: Baker bin Laden, the patriarch of the Saudi family, and
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Speaker 1: his brother Shafiq. So again, look, on its face, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't automatically mean, right, that bin Laden's family's bad because
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Speaker 1: he was. But you have to be very cautious if
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Speaker 1: you're a person in the public eye, especially if you're
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Speaker 1: going to be the king of England, for God's sakes.
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Speaker 1: Prince Charles, 73, said, is said to have held a
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Speaker 1: private meeting with Baker, 76, at Clarence House in London
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Speaker 1: on October 30th of 2013, two years after Osama bin
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Speaker 1: Laden was shot dead by U.S. special forces at a
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Speaker 1: compound near Islamabad in Pakistan, according to the newspaper. My
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Speaker 1: question is, you really needed money from these people? There's
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Speaker 1: nobody else in the world that wants to donate money
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Speaker 1: to your charity? What about Bill Gates? Isn't he always
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Speaker 1: yapping about giving money away? What about Jeff Bezos' wife?
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Speaker 1: Isn't she giving away billions of dollars? You have to
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Speaker 1: go to the Saudis to get money, huh? Kind of
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Speaker 1: like Leon Black has to go to Jeffrey Epstein. You
21:18
Speaker 1: want me to believe that too? Oh, okay, sure, yeah.
21:20
Speaker 1: I believe all of it. Clarence House strongly disputes many
21:26
Speaker 1: of the claims, saying the decision to accept the donation
21:29
Speaker 1: to his charity, the Prince of Wales Charitable Fund, was
21:33
Speaker 1: taken solely by trustees. Oh well, let's just punt the
21:36
Speaker 1: blame again. Every single time one of these royals gets
21:40
Speaker 1: stuck with their hand in the cookie jar, it's someone
21:42
Speaker 1: else's fault. Even if you find them with their hand
21:46
Speaker 1: directly in the cookie jar, it is someone else's fault.
21:49
Speaker 1: No self-responsibility, no self-reflection, ever. Baker and Shafiq bin Laden
21:57
Speaker 1: are half-brothers of Osama, related to the founder of Al-Qaeda
22:01
Speaker 1: through their father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Yemeni-born billionaire.
22:06
Speaker 1: There is no suggestion that Baker or Shafiq bin Laden
22:09
Speaker 1: has sponsored or been involved in acts of terrorism. Like
22:13
Speaker 1: I said earlier, you don't need to have that, right?
22:16
Speaker 1: I mean, how bad would it look to try and
22:20
Speaker 1: go to, I don't know, John Gotti's family to get
22:22
Speaker 1: some money? Oh yeah, John Gotti's family made a donation
22:26
Speaker 1: to Biden. How's that going to look? Oh yeah, the
22:30
Speaker 1: Genovese family, they gave a bunch of money to Ron DeSantis.
22:34
Speaker 1: That's going to work out well. I mean, are you
22:35
Speaker 1: kidding me right now? What would possess you to take
22:40
Speaker 1: money from them? Considering, let's be very honest, you don't
22:45
Speaker 1: need the money. Dude could get money, a million pounds.
22:51
Speaker 1: One phone call to... Name your stupid golf club, and
22:55
Speaker 1: I'm sure people would fall over themselves to try and
22:57
Speaker 1: get in the good graces of the next king of England,
23:00
Speaker 1: but instead you go to Bin Laden's brothers? Sir Ian Chesire,
23:05
Speaker 1: chairman of the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation, where the
23:08
Speaker 1: money was deposited, said in a statement, the donation from
23:12
Speaker 1: Sheikh Baker Bin Laden in 2013 was carefully considered by
23:17
Speaker 1: PWCF trustees at the time. Due diligence was conducted. With
23:23
Speaker 1: information sought from a wide range of sources. Including government.
23:27
Speaker 1: The decision to accept the donation was taken wholly by
23:30
Speaker 1: the trustees. It is never the fault of any of
23:35
Speaker 1: these people in the royal family. It is absurd. And
23:38
Speaker 1: I don't know how in the year 2022. People are
23:41
Speaker 1: still sitting here and acting like it's okay. As if
23:44
Speaker 1: these people don't put their pants on the same way
23:46
Speaker 1: we do. I'm tired of them getting special privileges. I'm
23:51
Speaker 1: tired of them being able to get money from all
23:53
Speaker 1: kinds of wacky sources. Gun runners, human traffickers, and who
23:58
Speaker 1: knows what else. But these people, they have their hand
24:02
Speaker 1: out all the time, and they have no qualms taking
24:05
Speaker 1: money from people like this. Any attempt to suggest otherwise
24:11
Speaker 1: is misleading and accurate. A source close to the charity...
24:15
Speaker 1: said after a thorough examination of the issues, the trustees
24:20
Speaker 1: concluded that the actions of one bin Laden family member
24:23
Speaker 1: should not tarnish the whole family. Look, I agree with
24:27
Speaker 1: that in principle, right? I'm not just going to sit
24:29
Speaker 1: here and say, well, if your name's bin Laden, then
24:31
Speaker 1: you've got to be a terrorist. That's absurd. That is
24:33
Speaker 1: just absurd behavior. But you have to take a look
24:37
Speaker 1: at the big picture. If you're somebody in the public eye,
24:40
Speaker 1: you're a politician, you're a prince, you You got to
24:44
Speaker 1: be careful who you're taking money from. It's the optics game, right?
24:48
Speaker 1: Even if it's nothing bad or nothing is amiss, you're
24:53
Speaker 1: leaving an opening for your opponents to dive in and
24:55
Speaker 1: dig in and make you look like a buffoon. A
25:01
Speaker 1: Clarence House spokesperson said, The Prince of Wales Charitable Fund
25:04
Speaker 1: has assured us that through due diligence... Undertaken in accepting
25:09
Speaker 1: this donation. The decision to accept it was taken by
25:12
Speaker 1: the charity's trustees alone. And any attempt to characterize it
25:16
Speaker 1: otherwise is false. A source disputed suggestions that Charles had
25:21
Speaker 1: personally brokered the deal. Had agreed to the donations despite
25:25
Speaker 1: advisors' objections. And that several advisors pleaded with him in
25:28
Speaker 1: person to return the money. Now, I don't know about
25:32
Speaker 1: all of that. We weren't there. We don't know all
25:34
Speaker 1: of the particulars. But my guess is Charles had something
25:37
Speaker 1: to do with getting this money. And of course, just
25:40
Speaker 1: blame the trustees, right? This entity, the trustees. There's not
25:44
Speaker 1: even a name to it. Not one person's name, right?
25:47
Speaker 1: So what are you even doing here? Let's just, we'll
25:50
Speaker 1: place the blame, but we won't make anyone accountable. The
25:58
Speaker 1: source also denied that the prince was urged to return
26:00
Speaker 1: the money and was told the sum would not be
26:03
Speaker 1: good for anybody. It comes a month after it emerged
26:06
Speaker 1: that the Prince of Wales accepted bags containing millions of
26:10
Speaker 1: euros in cash during meetings with the former Prime Minister
26:13
Speaker 1: of Qatar. Last week, the Charity Commission said it would
26:16
Speaker 1: take no further action over the reports that Charles was
26:19
Speaker 1: given a total of 3 million pounds during meetings with
26:23
Speaker 1: Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani. So this guy's
26:28
Speaker 1: just getting big bags of cash like he's working the
26:31
Speaker 1: Vegas skim in the 70s. Dude just shows up to
26:35
Speaker 1: the sands and then walks out of the count room
26:38
Speaker 1: with a bag full of money? Is that what's going
26:40
Speaker 1: on here? Because this is a good racket. And I
26:43
Speaker 1: sure wish I could get down. I wish I could
26:45
Speaker 1: walk in somewhere with a bag and come out with
26:47
Speaker 1: that bag filled with money. Instead of walking in someplace
26:51
Speaker 1: with my pocket full of money and coming out and
26:53
Speaker 1: my pocket being empty. The Sunday Times reported that the
26:58
Speaker 1: cash was handed to the Prince of Wales in a
27:00
Speaker 1: suitcase on one occasion, a hold-all on another, as well
27:05
Speaker 1: as in a Fortnum and Mason carrier bag, the upmarket
27:09
Speaker 1: department store, which holds a royal warrant to supply the
27:12
Speaker 1: prince's household with groceries. Oh, isn't that nice? I have
27:16
Speaker 1: a royal warrant. Provide me with my groceries. And if
27:19
Speaker 1: you're starving, don't you even think about taking a stag
27:22
Speaker 1: from the king's forest. The handovers were alleged to have
27:28
Speaker 1: occurred during meetings between the two men, including a private
27:31
Speaker 1: one-to-one meeting at Clarence House in 2015. Each payment was
27:36
Speaker 1: deposited in the accounts of the PWCF, and there is
27:39
Speaker 1: no suggestion that those payments were illegal. Yeah, because, you know,
27:43
Speaker 1: I get all my charitable funds in big fat bags.
27:47
Speaker 1: When my homies come to donate to the charities I
27:49
Speaker 1: work with, they show up with duffel bags full of dough. Because,
27:53
Speaker 1: you know, that's how people roll. A Clarence House spokesperson
27:59
Speaker 1: said in June the money given during the 2015 meeting
28:03
Speaker 1: was passed immediately to one of the prince's charities who
28:06
Speaker 1: carried out the appropriate covenants and assured us that all
28:10
Speaker 1: the correct processes were followed. Well, if you were assured
28:14
Speaker 1: by somebody as, you know, loyal and respectable as the
28:18
Speaker 1: prince and his people, then I'm going to rest easy tonight, folks.
28:22
Speaker 1: I'm not going to miss one single wink because Prince
28:26
Speaker 1: Charles and his people told us everything's on the up
28:29
Speaker 1: and up. Talk about absolutely ridiculous and absurd. Well, folks,
28:36
Speaker 1: there you have it. Just another instance of the rich
28:39
Speaker 1: getting richer, the men of all ways increasing their wealth,
28:43
Speaker 1: while the rest of us continue to struggle. If you'd
28:47
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28:50
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29:04
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29:09
Speaker 1: I'll be back with a little bit more later on.
29:11
Speaker 1: Hope that all of you are having a great Sunday morning.
29:15
Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to the Epstein Chronicles. The
29:19
Speaker 1: beef between Prince Andrew and his brother the King continues
29:23
Speaker 1: to simmer as Prince Andrew continues to refuse to leave
29:28
Speaker 1: Royal Lodge. Now King Charles allegedly is fed up with
29:32
Speaker 1: his brother's antics, but we've heard this story before and
29:36
Speaker 1: every single time we hear about King Charles being upset
29:39
Speaker 1: with Andrew, nothing comes of it. So why should anyone
29:42
Speaker 1: think that this time is going to be any different?
29:45
Speaker 1: Today's article is from Fox News and the headline, King
29:49
Speaker 1: Charles fed up with fragile Prince Andrew as disgraced Duke
29:52
Speaker 1: scrambles to save his $ 38 million home. This article was
29:57
Speaker 1: authored by Stephanie Nolasco and and Ashley Papa. King Charles
30:03
Speaker 1: III is celebrating his 76th birthday, and the monarch's one
30:07
Speaker 1: wish is reportedly to solve his Prince Andrew problem. Well,
30:11
Speaker 1: I have a few ideas. Helicopters, volcanoes. How about sending
30:16
Speaker 1: him to the furthest flung province that's still in the
30:19
Speaker 1: hands of the crown? Or maybe you could send him
30:21
Speaker 1: to a leper colony where he can go and be
30:24
Speaker 1: the saint that he is. You know, Prince Andrew the Saint.
30:27
Speaker 1: Such a great guy. would never hurt anybody, very honorable,
30:31
Speaker 1: just ask him. Or maybe there's an Ebola outbreak somewhere
30:35
Speaker 1: and you could send him there. But like Bobby Bacala
30:37
Speaker 1: said with Vito Spadafore, one thing's for certain, he can't
30:41
Speaker 1: be in our social club. So that's pretty much what
30:44
Speaker 1: all the royals are saying at this point, right? This
30:47
Speaker 1: dude can't be in our social club. We can't have
30:49
Speaker 1: him around. He's a disgrace. The UK Sunday Times recently
30:54
Speaker 1: reported that Prince Andrew has raised the money he needs
30:56
Speaker 1: to continue staying at his lavish Royal Lodge home. According
31:00
Speaker 1: to the outlet, the disgraced Duke of York's personal allowance
31:03
Speaker 1: was cut off by the monarch. A spokesperson for Buckingham
31:07
Speaker 1: Palace didn't immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
31:12
Speaker 1: So who is this benefactor? Why is he doling out
31:15
Speaker 1: all this dough to Prince Andrew? And what's he or
31:18
Speaker 1: she expecting on the comeback? Because nobody's giving anybody anything
31:22
Speaker 1: for free. Everything's transactional, especially when we're talking about these
31:27
Speaker 1: sorts of people. For his birthday, the king will celebrate
31:31
Speaker 1: with family and no doubt give thanks and cheers for
31:34
Speaker 1: being alive, British broadcaster and photographer Helena Shard told Fox
31:39
Speaker 1: News Digital. Despite his cancer treatment, he's coping with a
31:42
Speaker 1: rigorous work schedule. The royal lodge problem still rumbles on,
31:47
Speaker 1: although King Charles has made a decisive move and has
31:49
Speaker 1: financially cut him off. Prince Andrew is no longer a
31:52
Speaker 1: working royal and is viewed as the idle, entitled, privileged
31:56
Speaker 1: duke in the court of public opinion. Oh, he's thought
32:00
Speaker 1: of worse than that. And when I call him the
32:03
Speaker 1: Joe Exotic of the Windsor family, he's getting off light.
32:07
Speaker 1: In fact, I almost feel like I need to apologize
32:09
Speaker 1: to Joe Exotic for lumping him in with Prince Andrew.
32:12
Speaker 1: That's how condemnable Prince Andrew is, and how much of
32:15
Speaker 1: a moron Prince Andrew is. King Charles recognizes that Andrew
32:21
Speaker 1: is fragile, but also acknowledges that he has inflicted a
32:24
Speaker 1: lot of upset on himself. By making appalling judgments, tragic interviews,
32:29
Speaker 1: and more, Chart added, Prince Andrew can now maintain his
32:32
Speaker 1: lease and pay for his Windsor home as he has
32:35
Speaker 1: friends in high places who will stump up the cash needed.
32:39
Speaker 1: So no talk about the allegations made against him? No
32:42
Speaker 1: talk about him hanging out with Epstein or flying across
32:45
Speaker 1: the pond because he says, well, you know, I was
32:47
Speaker 1: going to break up with Jeffrey and we weren't going
32:49
Speaker 1: to be friends anymore, but I had to do that
32:50
Speaker 1: in person. Really? Really? You don't just call bro and
32:54
Speaker 1: be like, look, we're done. Don't even bother calling me
32:56
Speaker 1: ever again. You're a molester. You're a child abuser. And
32:59
Speaker 1: I want nothing to do with you. But no, Prince
33:02
Speaker 1: Andrew heads back over to Epstein's and Mr. Big Talking
33:06
Speaker 1: Blustery Prince ends up staying the night at Epstein's house
33:10
Speaker 1: when he was supposed to be going there to break
33:12
Speaker 1: up with him. So yeah, he might have given some
33:14
Speaker 1: bad interviews, but all of those interviews and all of
33:16
Speaker 1: his stumbling stems from his bullshit with Epstein. And I
33:21
Speaker 1: think that most people are willing to overlook the basic grift,
33:25
Speaker 1: the basic thievery and the nonsense that politicians and people
33:29
Speaker 1: like Prince Andrew usually get up to. But when we
33:32
Speaker 1: start talking about what we're talking about, it's a whole
33:35
Speaker 1: different ballgame, right? People aren't willing to overlook this. According
33:38
Speaker 1: to the Sunday Times, Charles instructed the keeper of the
33:41
Speaker 1: Privy Purse to remove Andrew's $ 1. 3 million annual personal allowance
33:46
Speaker 1: and to stop paying for his security fees. However, Andrew
33:49
Speaker 1: has raised enough money to continue living at the Royal
33:52
Speaker 1: Lodge in Windsor, which is worth, reported, $ 38 million. And look,
33:57
Speaker 1: he has to disclose this, right? I mean, you would think.
34:00
Speaker 1: You would think that the Crown would demand to know
34:02
Speaker 1: where this money is coming from. We're talking about Prince
34:05
Speaker 1: Andrew here, not exactly a guy with a stellar track
34:09
Speaker 1: record when it comes to getting money from people or
34:12
Speaker 1: associating with people who have a bunch of dough. Just
34:16
Speaker 1: take a look at the people he's been accused of
34:18
Speaker 1: associating with and getting money from, and it won't take
34:21
Speaker 1: long to understand why the Crown would be apprehensive of
34:24
Speaker 1: just accepting him at his word. The 64-year-old has been
34:28
Speaker 1: living in the 31-room estate since 2004. He lives there
34:31
Speaker 1: with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. According to reports, he spent
34:35
Speaker 1: over $ 9 million on repairs and renovations and $ 1 million
34:39
Speaker 1: to take over. His annual rent is reported at $ 337, 000.
34:45
Speaker 1: The palatial property requires an estimated $ 503, 000 annually for its upkeep.
34:51
Speaker 1: Imagine $ 503, 000 for upkeep, and think about that, $ 500, 000 just
34:57
Speaker 1: for the upkeep. That's as much as a lot of
34:59
Speaker 1: people's homes cost. And he's out here every year spending $ 500, 000
35:04
Speaker 1: to keep the weeds cut? Like, where are you spending
35:08
Speaker 1: that money on? How in the hell is there $ 500, 000
35:11
Speaker 1: a year worth of upgrades that have to take place
35:14
Speaker 1: to each and every year on this property. The outlet
35:18
Speaker 1: reported that Andrew's funds were approved by the keeper of
35:21
Speaker 1: the Privy Purse as coming from legitimate sources. Oh, I'm
35:25
Speaker 1: sure that everything is legitimate. The sad part is, we're
35:29
Speaker 1: never going to see any of it. Especially over here
35:32
Speaker 1: in the UK. They're on some other shit in the
35:34
Speaker 1: UK these days. They don't have any kind of desire
35:39
Speaker 1: or interest in transparency. They'd much rather throw you in
35:42
Speaker 1: jail for a social media post Meanwhile, at the same time,
35:46
Speaker 1: they say they're not going to investigate Epstein or any
35:49
Speaker 1: of Epstein's crimes in the UK anymore? Somebody make that
35:52
Speaker 1: make sense. King Charles has important things to carry out
35:56
Speaker 1: as head of state and doesn't have time to dwell
35:58
Speaker 1: on Prince Andrew, Chard claimed. Prince Andrew may have been
36:02
Speaker 1: the late Queen Elizabeth's favorite son, but he is certainly
36:05
Speaker 1: not King Charles' favorite brother. King Charles will not be
36:08
Speaker 1: as forgiving and caring as his mother would have been. Imagine,
36:12
Speaker 1: grown-ass man like this still relying on his mom to
36:15
Speaker 1: save him. Here's an idea, bro. Become an adult. I know,
36:19
Speaker 1: I know, it's rough business. None of us want to
36:21
Speaker 1: do it. But here we all are. Meanwhile, you got
36:24
Speaker 1: the Prince of Corgis over here. Manipulating, backstabbing, doing whatever
36:30
Speaker 1: he possibly can to get out of any sort of
36:33
Speaker 1: real responsibility or any kind of real work. There is
36:36
Speaker 1: frustration and animosity between the brothers, Chard claimed. Prince Andrew
36:40
Speaker 1: feels he has nothing to lose and is digging his
36:43
Speaker 1: heels in and not budging from Royal Lodge. Whereas King
36:46
Speaker 1: Charles wants the Andrew problem gone for the sake of
36:49
Speaker 1: the royal family. He wishes that he would see sense.
36:52
Speaker 1: The fact that Andrew lives on the huge Royal Lodge
36:55
Speaker 1: when his reputation is at an all-time low is not
36:58
Speaker 1: a good look. No, it's not. And it makes it
37:00
Speaker 1: seem like Charles is feckless. Like what's even the point
37:04
Speaker 1: of being the king? You can't get your diddlin' ass
37:06
Speaker 1: brother to leave the property, meanwhile at the same time
37:09
Speaker 1: trying to project power throughout the rest of the country.
37:12
Speaker 1: You gotta think that the people of England are looking
37:14
Speaker 1: at this dude and laughing at him. If you can't
37:17
Speaker 1: get your brother to leave this property, what sort of
37:19
Speaker 1: power do you really have as the king? Sources previously
37:24
Speaker 1: told the Sunday Times that the king was losing patience
37:27
Speaker 1: over his brother's living arrangements and was at his wit's end.
37:30
Speaker 1: So what's he gonna do about it? You're the king.
37:33
Speaker 1: Do something already. According to the outlet, the king didn't
37:36
Speaker 1: renew the contract for Andrew's private security team. The monarch,
37:40
Speaker 1: who was battling cancer, has been paying for Andrew's security
37:44
Speaker 1: after the prince lost his police protection in 2022. The
37:48
Speaker 1: security team is said to cost Charles nearly $ 4 million annually.
37:53
Speaker 1: At the time, the spokesperson for Buckingham Palace told Fox
37:56
Speaker 1: News Digital the palace would not comment on security matters.
38:00
Speaker 1: The relationship is hit an all-time low. Royal expert Hillary
38:04
Speaker 1: Fordwich told Fox News Digital. King Charles III is no
38:08
Speaker 1: doubt reeling from the excruciating publicity, known defeat he has
38:12
Speaker 1: suffered now that Prince Andrew has prevailed, winning, living out
38:16
Speaker 1: the rest of his life in his grand home, known
38:19
Speaker 1: forevermore as the Siege of Royal Lodge. His lease gives
38:23
Speaker 1: him and his descendants the right to reside there until 2078. Purportedly,
38:29
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew has secured the funds from his contacts in
38:31
Speaker 1: the Middle East, Fordwich claimed. Oh, I'm sure that all
38:34
Speaker 1: of that money is on the up and up. Middle
38:36
Speaker 1: East money? What could possibly be wrong with that? It
38:39
Speaker 1: was reported that the Duke, who was at the brink
38:41
Speaker 1: of eviction, was expected to downsize due to his ties
38:44
Speaker 1: to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to the outlet,
38:49
Speaker 1: the King would have covered his brother's living expenses if
38:51
Speaker 1: he moved into Frogmore Cottage, the former UK home of
38:55
Speaker 1: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. And I just can't wrap
38:58
Speaker 1: my mind around the fact that this dude... refuses to
39:01
Speaker 1: move into this other place, this other mansion, because he
39:05
Speaker 1: wants to spite his brother? Because he wants to just
39:08
Speaker 1: be an absolute dick? You haven't been a big enough
39:11
Speaker 1: dick as it is? Because if that's what you're looking for,
39:14
Speaker 1: my friend, you've cornered the market. Frogmore Cottage has been
39:18
Speaker 1: vacant since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were asked
39:20
Speaker 1: to vacate. They live in California. So you can throw
39:23
Speaker 1: your son out because he wants to marry a woman
39:26
Speaker 1: that's not acceptable, but Prince Andrew? Bro's gonna stick around
39:30
Speaker 1: like a bad rash, after Andrew reportedly refused to downsize
39:33
Speaker 1: the king Axe's allowance. Recent photographs indicate that the royal
39:37
Speaker 1: lodge is in dire need of repairs as the prince
39:40
Speaker 1: struggles to maintain its costly upkeep. Royal expert Ian Pelham
39:45
Speaker 1: Turner told Fox News Digital an estimated $ 2. 5 million would
39:49
Speaker 1: be needed to restore the property. How does something get
39:51
Speaker 1: into that bad of shape? How is it that all
39:55
Speaker 1: these years you're not maintaining it? You got all the
39:58
Speaker 1: money in the world, your mom's the Queen of England,
40:00
Speaker 1: but your pad looks like a trailer on an episode
40:03
Speaker 1: of Cops? Somebody make it make sense. Charles wishes that
40:07
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew would take residence in Harry and Meghan's former home,
40:10
Speaker 1: he said. The biggest birthday present Charles could give himself
40:13
Speaker 1: is to quickly rectify the unruly mess. Fordwitch previously told
40:18
Speaker 1: Fox News Digital, Andrew is a prisoner of his own pride.
40:22
Speaker 1: Prince Andrew is adamant on staying, Fordwitch claimed. In his
40:25
Speaker 1: quest to be the people's king, Charles wants to be
40:27
Speaker 1: valued by the taxpayer. His image of the monarchy and
40:31
Speaker 1: cutting back costs extends to all non-working royals, including Prince Andrew.
40:37
Speaker 1: For the Brits, Prince Andrew is a national embarrassment. He's
40:40
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the royal popularity ratings. There isn't
40:43
Speaker 1: much public empathy for him. He doesn't resonate with the
40:45
Speaker 1: cash-strapped public. Andrew stepped back from royal duties in 2019
40:51
Speaker 1: after the Newsnight interview in which he attempted to address
40:54
Speaker 1: his controversial connection to Epstein. He also stripped his honorary
40:58
Speaker 1: military titles. Before she died in 2022, the Queen also
41:02
Speaker 1: removed his honorary leadership of various charities known as royal
41:06
Speaker 1: patronages and barred him from using his title, His Royal Highness,
41:10
Speaker 1: in official settings. The council in the northern city of
41:13
Speaker 1: York voted unanimously to withdraw the prince's freedom of the city.
41:17
Speaker 1: The honor was awarded to Andrew in 1987 after the
41:21
Speaker 1: queen made him the Duke of York, more like the
41:24
Speaker 1: Duke of pulling his pork. He's the first person to
41:27
Speaker 1: be stripped of the status and honor that dates back
41:29
Speaker 1: to medieval times. Bro is such a piece of garbage
41:33
Speaker 1: that even the dukes and robber barons from back in
41:35
Speaker 1: the day had more honor. The only one to ever
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Speaker 1: get stripped of the title was Local leaders have since
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Speaker 1: argued that Andrew should also lose the title of Duke
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Speaker 1: of York. A spokesperson for Andrew declined to comment at
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Speaker 1: the time. In a lawsuit filed in 2020, Virginia Roberts
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Speaker 1: accused Prince Andrew of sexually exploiting her on three occasions
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Speaker 1: in 2001 when she was 17. Andrew denied the wrongdoing.
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Speaker 1: In 2022, a judge dismissed the sex abuse lawsuit against Andrew,
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Speaker 1: who settled with Roberts. The prince made a substantial donation
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Speaker 1: to the accuser's charity, and declared he never meant to
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Speaker 1: malign her character. Yeah, okay, sure you didn't. You just
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Speaker 1: meant to, what, abuse her, allegedly? The good old prince
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Speaker 1: of clowns. The gift that never stops giving. Epstein was
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Speaker 1: found dead behind bars in 2019 at age 66. The U.S.
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Speaker 1: attorney in Manhattan prosecuted Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, for
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Speaker 1: helping recruit his underage victims. She was convicted in 2021
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Speaker 1: and is serving a 20-year prison term. Andrew, named in
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Speaker 1: previously secret court documents related to Epstein that were unsealed
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Speaker 1: in the new year, it was part of the 2015
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Speaker 1: lawsuit filed against Ghislaine Maxwell by Roberts. The records, including
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Speaker 1: transcripts of interviews with some of Epstein's victims and old
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Speaker 1: police reports, contain reminders that the millionaire had surrounded himself
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Speaker 1: with famous and powerful figures, including a few who have
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Speaker 1: been accused of misconduct. The prince has denied any wrongdoing.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks. Well, there you have it. The latest
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Speaker 1: in the saga between King Charles and the Joe Exotic
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Speaker 1: of the Windsor family. All of the information that goes
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