Posted on 11/08/2025 2:29:44 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Even as the Epstein scandal engulfed the royals, the Queen “never changed her stance on Andrew.”
“The late Queen, of course, adored her second son and continued to support him after his disgrace,” Jobson wrote, adding, “In her final days she kept him close, shielding him as Palace insiders continued to push for his total exile.” “She confided her support to a trusted confidant,” Jobson wrote.
“‘You have to remember, he is my son.’”
But while the Queen’s loyalty was unwavering, her eldest son had to take the difficult route. Following Mountbatten Windsor’s disastrous 2019 Newsnight interview, it was Charles, not his mother, who pressed for decisive action. According to Jobson, the then-Prince of Wales was the one who insisted his brother “step down from royal life and be cut adrift.”
The Queen, ever the soft touch when Mountbatten Windsor was concerned, tried to cushion the fall. As the lawsuit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre loomed, she reportedly planned a “private one-to-one meeting” with the former Prince to break the news that his military titles and patronages were being taken away. But senior courtiers intervened, insisting they be present to witness the conversation. Jobson says Mountbatten Windsor was 'blindsided' by the 'painful' exchange.
And for that, Charles had to pay the price.
Writing for The Sunday Times, Roya Nikkhah claimed a family source said, “It seems to me that Queen Elizabeth has quite a lot to answer for. It’s as if she left an unexploded bomb for Charles. The thing about the Queen was that everyone always said she was so dutiful, and she was — but this was a terrible dereliction of duty. She indulged Andrew all the time and always avoided confrontation.”
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She did not raise them at all I think
Elizabeth is of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Charles (and all other descendants of Prince Philip) are of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
Transylvanian Vlad the Impaler descendants all.
“”Because that is now his official title.””
A title or his real given name?
I’m watching “The Crown” on DVD.
Cool story about Charles the Moral protecting the good name of the family. Now tell us the chapter about him cheating with Camilla, and just extremely close relationship with life-long pedophile molester and likely child killer Jimmy Saville.
Hovered his helicopter over the his ship as a decoy to draw away Exocet missiles. And flying from a small Brit carrier in the south Atlantic is no picnic even without a shooting war.
“No....they didn’t meet on an island....”
Well, not to be pedantic, but they actually did.
I would offer my home as a refuge for Kate’s sister Pippa, but she went off and got married. Sigh.
The King stripped him of all titles including Prince. The Royal statement declares that he is now a private citizen and will be called Mr Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
A member of the British Royal Family treating women badly. Well thats a new thing.
Covering up for bad behavior just encourages it (Andrew/Harry)
I not willing to give Andrew a pass.
But I am willing to give his very elderly mother a pass.
If Andrew had any real guts he would have stood up and taken his punishment like a man. But he is a cuck.
He cannot fade from public fast enough.
Because he is not Prince Andrew any longer. He is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. It is proper AP style to refer to him as Mr M-W or just M-W.
He is no longer “special.” (Not that he ever was.). Now is just another rich jerk.
The Queen Made Her Feelings Clear on the Andrew
Queen: Yeah Andrew is a pedophile
Replace the Glyckenburgs with the Stuarts.
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert Maria von Bayern, Duke of Bavaria (born 14 July 1933), is the current pretender to the British throne under the Jacobite succession, which follows male-preference primogeniture without regard to the Act of Settlement 1701
“”Using a formal document affixed with a royal seal, King Charles III has formally stripped his brother Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of the title of prince.””
In other words, the kind has simply restored the name Andrew was given at birth - absent the PRINCE title.
In other words, the king has simply restored the name Andrew was given at birth - absent the PRINCE title.
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