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Prince Andrew steps back from public duties after his much-criticized interview
CNN ^ | November 20, 2019

Posted on 11/20/2019 10:27:14 AM PST by rdl6989

London (CNN)Prince Andrew said in a statement Wednesday that he would step back from public duties "for the foreseeable future" following a firestorm of criticism over an interview with the BBC about his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bahrain; epstein; jeffreyepstein; princeandrew; royals; uk; unitedkingdom
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To: bigbob

Well, at least Andrew’s youngest daughter, Eugenie, got a nice wedding. His older daughter, Beatrice, who is recently engaged, will most likely get a more modest wedding. I have always admired the Queen and hate to see her suffer these indignities at this point in her rock solid reign and which jeopardize the very monarchy’s continuance.


21 posted on 11/20/2019 11:23:33 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: rdl6989

If HRH was truly serious about this, she’d cut off Andrew’s royal allowance. And that brings us to this rather timely read, from the UK Express. Andy receives an annual “allowance” of $249,000 pounds, or roughly $320,000 a year. But he maintains a lavish lifestyle, and the British press is raising questions about how he affords it:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1206348/prince-andrew-net-worth-epstein-interview-salary

I’m guessing the late Jeffrey Epstein had some rather pertinent information along those lines.


22 posted on 11/20/2019 11:26:32 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: rdl6989

Aw, that’s too bad. I was looking forward to a clarification interview, and then an interview clarifying the clarification interview. “Those responsible for sacking those responsible have been sacked,” that sort of thing. I’ve been wondering how it is that a guy who doesn’t perspire can sweat so much...


23 posted on 11/20/2019 11:27:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Ironic that the interview was with the BBC, who covered up for Jimmy Saville for all those years.


24 posted on 11/20/2019 11:30:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bicyclerepair

Interesting.

Notwithstanding recent news and such: I’ve met him many times, most times in the members pub in my club. Always respectful, great sense of humor. Nice guy. I like him. Never would have imagined. . .(still not convinced the photo is not photo-shopped. . .his left arm around her looks out of place and unnaturally long)

Charles is another thing completely. . .a physical anomaly. . .two ears held apart by a vacuum.


25 posted on 11/20/2019 11:37:34 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hatteras

Busy, just not a media interest, usually.

Post 25, please.


26 posted on 11/20/2019 11:39:46 AM PST by Hulka
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To: bigbob

Not a media interest (til now).

Post 25.


27 posted on 11/20/2019 11:40:36 AM PST by Hulka
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I just finished Season 3 of Crown. The Queen says “she knows there is something wrong with her that she can’t cry”. She didn’t even cry at Aberfan. She was a cold, indifferent, no humor Mum to her 4 kids. I think Charles took the brunt of it mostly. He never measured up in Philip’s eyes as a “man’s man”.


28 posted on 11/20/2019 11:44:08 AM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: All

He should be tried and executed.

Piece of excrement.


29 posted on 11/20/2019 12:08:32 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (The Eloi unexpectedly protected the Morlocks from rogue Eloi as they themselves prepared to be eaten)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. The Clintons will be targeting Andy. They can’t count on him keeping quiet.


30 posted on 11/20/2019 12:17:04 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: VanDeKoik
Don't post about things you neither understand, nor know anything at all about!

The law of succession is fixe3d by law and Anne will NEVER be Queen; it's IMPOSSIBLE!

By codified law, many 100s off years old, the law of PRIMOGENITURE, until only a few years ago ( and the new change only starts with the children of Wills & Kate and does NOT cover anyone in previous generations! ), clearly states that the FIRST MAKE CHILD AND HIS MALE HEIRS MAY INHERIT THE THRONE. SHOULD THEIR ONLY BE FEMALE PROGENY ( Queen Mary I was the first legit female heir to take the throne, followed by Queen Elizabeth I and then there wasn't another female heir until Mary II, followed by her sister Anne and then not another until Queen Victoria, and now, Queen Elizabeth II ! ); however, now, the second child of prince William, Princess Charlotte, is the 4th in line to the throne, should something happen to her elder brother, Prince George and he should die without progeny.

No Brit King or Queen has the "right" to leapfrog one child over another and NEVER has had that ability; not even when they had complete power!

31 posted on 11/20/2019 12:37:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Da Coyote
You know them all personally, do ya?

I bet that you don't even know the simplest facts ab out ANY of them. ;^)

32 posted on 11/20/2019 12:39:06 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Hatteras
Yes, he certainly has!

Obviously you know almost nothing at all about any of them.

33 posted on 11/20/2019 12:41:34 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Black Agnes
They all had/have nannies and later governesses/tutors; "courtiers" ( a term I doubt you understand the meaning of !)have NEVER been "in charge" of any Royal child.

And you need to get your mind out of the gutter.

34 posted on 11/20/2019 12:44:05 PM PST by nopardons
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To: kiltie65

Bea was getting a much MORE “modest wedding”, at HER request, long before this all really hit the fan. Her fiance has a tad of a dodgy past.


35 posted on 11/20/2019 12:46:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Well something is/has messed up the European royals something fierce.

Perverts abound there.

According to Lady Colin Campbell if you give the 14yr olds money after you boink them that makes the 14yr olds common prostitutes and therefore you weren’t breaking the law.

or something.

Something bad in the water in the country piles over there. Maybe too many lead pipes, like old Rome.


36 posted on 11/20/2019 12:47:17 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Engedi
THE CROWN ( which I do not watch, but have read about ), is a whole LOT of fiction overlaied onto factual history. There were a couple of articles about this, over the weekend, in the Daily Mail newspaper.
37 posted on 11/20/2019 12:49:16 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

>Don’t post about things you neither understand, nor know anything at all about!

Rolleyes...here we go.

>The law of succession is fixe3d by law and Anne will NEVER be Queen; it’s IMPOSSIBLE!

Dude....I know this. That is why people use phrases like “She may as well”.


38 posted on 11/20/2019 12:58:51 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Black Agnes
Lady Colin Campbell ( a title she uses, even though she was only married to Lord Campbell for LESS THAN 1 YEAR !), is not and never has been a "ROYAL"! She's a coarse gossip monger.

Andrew NEVER "boinked" nor paid for a 14 year old, that anyone knows of.

The girl accusing Andrew ( and I have doubts about her truthfulness ), was, by her own words...paid $15,000 for a one off with Randy Andy and was of LEGAL age ( 17 ) at the time of the supposed event.

Just like ALL families...royals and non-royals alike, there have been crazies, good, bad, middling, and everything else in ALL European and Brit Royal families!

At one time ( and until very recently ) all Royals intermarried; however, though some cousins were closer than others, whom intermarried, many were quite separated from each other and well beyond even 3rd cousins.

It was Victoria, who had a ton of children, who married most of her kids off far and wide, which is WHY she was known as "THE GRANDMOTHER OF EUROPE"!

Is sexual perversion inheritable? I doubt it. It's NOT like hemophilia or IQ.

King George V and Czar Nicholas looked so much alike, they could have been twins! The family resemblance comes from their maternal sides; IIRC. But whilst King George V was intelligent, Nicholas was not.

39 posted on 11/20/2019 1:03:25 PM PST by nopardons
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To: VanDeKoik
That makes NO sense at all; "she may as well...." is an impossibility, which you now claim to know.
40 posted on 11/20/2019 1:06:11 PM PST by nopardons
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