Former Prince Andrew And The Erasure Of Empathy

What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.

Oh, you thought that the degenerate formerly known as Prince Andrew couldn't sink any

lower?

Well, so did we.

But apparently Rock Bottom is just another ballroom floor for this, dude.

Every time you think he hits the lowest rung on the ladder of disgrace, he digs a new basement

underneath it.

It's like watching a slow-motion car crash in a royal carriage.

Equal parts horrifying and darkly comedic.

Turns out, when the crown tried to show an ounce of sympathy for Jeffrey Epstein's victims,

just a crumb of humanity.

Old Randy Andy decided he wasn't having it.

He refused to sign off on anything that even hinted at empathy.

That's right, Mr. I can't sweat through the line.

At compassion.

I mean, you almost have to admire the consistency.

Bro's been allergic to decency for decades.

The man treats empathy like it's an infectious disease and humility like it's a personal

insult.

And look, it's not even shocking anymore.

The idea that Andrew would have some moral awakening or a flicker of remorse is like expecting

a crocodile to apologize after it bites you.

This is a guy who spent his entire life shielded by privilege, fueled by ego, and convinced

that the rules don't apply to him, because well, they never really did.

He's that one co-worker who screws everything up, and still somehow gets promoted.

Except in this case, the promotion was being born into a crown he didn't earn.

How he standing there, crownless, and clueless, watching the House of Windsor quietly shove

him out the back door with a thanks for nothing smile.

And honestly, it's poetic justice.

And now finally, finally after years of playing royal dodgeball with accountability, he's

been exiled and stripped of every title, every honor, every ounce of fake dignity that came

with the job.

And you know what?

Good.

Damn good.

I'm not the kind of person who takes joy in someone's downfall, but when it's self-inflicted,

when it's the direct result of a lifetime of arrogance, entitlement, and sleaze, it's

kind of hard, not to grin a little.

This dude built his own guillotine out of bad decisions, and hung his crown on it.

Especially when the rest of us are bustin' our asses just to keep the lights on, scrape

him by, and watch in this royal leech cry about losing his palace perks.

Oh, poor Andrew.

Guess I'll have to settle for a smaller mansion, and fewer servants to ignore the horror.

And let's not pretend that this was some sort of misunderstanding or a PR miss-at.

The signs have been there for years, the arrogance, the tone-deaf interviews, the complete

lack of self-awareness, but all painted the same picture.

When it came time to show even the slightest compassion toward Epstein survivors, Andrew

decided his reputation mattered more than their trauma.

We're not talking about just bad optics here, folks.

What we're talking about is a moral void.

It's the kind of move that tells you everything you need to know about who he really is,

behind those taxpayer-affunded walls.

Oh no, we shouldn't be surprised that Andrew stood in the way of empathy for Epstein's

survivors.

This man's been standing in the way of accountability since the first scandal broke.

He's allergic to responsibility, the way cats are to buzz.

Because when you pull off the royal mask, you don't find some misunderstood nobleman.

You find what we always suspected, a spoiled, tone-deaf, morally bankrupt man-child, who

thought his last name was a free pass to do whatever the hell he wanted.

And now that the world is finally called as bluff, turns out the only thing royal about

Andrew was the size of his ego.

His title's gone, his reputations in ruins, and all that's left is a man who spent his

whole life thinking he was untouchable, now finding out what it's like to be just another

nobody who ran out of excuses.

Today's article is from The Sunday Times and the headline.

Andrew erased royal tributes to Jeffrey Epstein's victims.

The author of this article is Roya Nika.

That's the bit I kick myself about, so said the former Prince Andrew of his decision

in 2010 to stay with Jeffrey Epstein by then a convicted sex offender in New York.

Today, now playing Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will be kicking himself about so much more

of his behavior over the past 15 years, which is led to permanent exile from royal life

eviction from Windsor to Norfolk and the stripping of all his titles.

And guess what?

Couldn't happen to a better guy?

How long are you going to walk around acting like the whole world owes you something because

you happen to be born a prince, and finally, after all these years, that fairy tale is being

put to bed.

Though Buckingham Palace statement on Thursday night announcing the game was finally up

for Andrew showed a rare ruthlessness from the king, who had hoped that the statement

from Andrew two weeks earlier saying he would voluntarily relinquish his dukedom might

quell the growing public and parliamentary pressure over the scandal engulfing the monarchy.

That was never going to happen.

Prince Andrew is just the big gigantic windbag.

So nobody takes anything he says seriously in the first place.

And then you add to the fact that he's been talking about, you know, helping the authorities,

stepping back, doing the right thing, and he's done none of it.

Why should anyone believe anything this dude has to say?

And what I find hilarious is hell?

Are the people out there talking about, oh, well, Virginia is not a reliable narrator.

Oh, yeah, Prince Andrew is, grows about as reliable as one of those old Soviet cars that

they used to sell.

The Lotver, whatever the hell it was called, that's about how reliable Prince Andrew's

bitch ass is.

Andrew has always denied the allegations by Virginia Roberts, whose memoir was published

last month, repeating her claims that Epstein and Glenn Maxwell trafficked her to Andrew.

She said that he sexually abused her three times when she was 17.

No big deal over in England, right?

I mean, I've heard people come out and say, well, she was a vege.

As if that's okay.

As if trafficking a woman who is a vege to somebody is just a okay.

I mean, I guess when you think that every woman is some kind of, you know, scamming ass

gold digger, that might be the conclusion you come to.

But for the vast majority of us who actually understand the world as a nuance place, well,

things are a bit more gray, aren't they?

And it's always the same type of people that are defending Prince Andrew over in the UK.

You know, the stiff upper lip type, certainly not your average everyday person who's

waking up in the morning and pumped up to go to the football match on, you know, Sunday

afternoon or whatever.

Those people are all disgusted by Prince Andrew.

You know, the heartbeat of England, the people who matter in the UK, they've had enough.

Friends of the king pointed to a line in trial statement, these censures are deemed necessary

and notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against them.

One said that was extraordinary.

That's the closest you'll ever get to the king and his court passing judgment on his brother.

Well, yeah, that's the king telling everybody that he believes the allegations.

So all the people out there that are acting like Prince Andrew is getting a raw deal here.

Check yourself literally everybody that's been involved top down.

Things that Prince Andrew at the very least has information to share with authorities.

I mean, do you really think that the king and the monarchy would just boot him if they didn't

believe what was going on, but they've never weathered a bad storm before they have,

but they understand the kind of person that Prince Andrew is, maybe even more than we do.

And they think he did it.

Just chew on that for a minute.

And they've always thought he did it, to be honest with you.

The only reason that we haven't progressed to this point previously is because Prince

Andrew was a favored son of the queen.

And now that the queen is gone with Charles getting sick, it's taken a little bit of time.

But this certainly was the shove that sent everything over the ledge for the first time

after 15 years of scandals swirling around Andrew.

There was also an acknowledgement of the victims and their suffering.

Their majesty's wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been

and will remain with the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.

About time they said something like that, how about saying that right away?

When all of this first broke, how about a statement such as, look, we don't know all

the details and we don't know what's going on one way or the other.

But one thing we do do is offer our sympathy and our empathy to the people who have been

affected.

And maybe just maybe have the survivors come to the palace doesn't mean you have to automatically

believe everything they say, but how about listen to them?

Sit down one-on-one and listen to them the same way that our politicians in America should

do by the way.

You know all these big mouths out here that think they know what's up?

They should all have a conversation with these survivors one-on-one.

And then if they can walk away from that conversation and think nothing else should happen,

cool.

Tells us everything we need to know from there on out, right?

Because I don't know how anyone in the right mind cannot be calling for a robust investigation

into this whole entire thing.

A friend of the king and queen revealed in all previous statements issued by the palace

since Andrew's disastrous newsnight interview in 2019, each time courtiers drafted the

references to the victims, they were removed.

Any such communication had required Andrews sign off.

Why would that have to require Andrews sign off?

I mean, come on, shouldn't the queen make that call?

Shouldn't the crown prince make that call?

For all intents and purposes, Andrews never get anywhere near the throne.

The second that Charles had kids, that party was over.

So I don't even understand why they put up with this bullshit this long.

Oh, that's right, because his mom.

Now I know a lot of people out there have a lot of good feelings about the queen, and

I get it, but I'm not one of those people.

She protected Prince Andrew for all these years, even though she knew exactly what he was.

The friend said there has long been a sense from the family that the voices of the victims

needed to be heard in these pronouncements, because they feature so heavily in this saga,

and because there is no credible way the queen and the Duchess of Edinburgh can continue

to do the work they do in the areas of sexual abuse, if they can't point to that.

Now the king has lost his patience.

You can see in the statement is no longer a statement by committee.

It's a statement from the king, and that's certainly significant, right?

When the king addresses you directly and tells you the party's over, well, I hate to break

the news to you Uncle Touchy, but the party's over.

Royal sources say Camilla, who has read the coverage of Robert's book Nobody's Girl,

has been a wise council, a support and cheerleader for Charles during his decision-making process.

Another source who knows the king said, they got it wrong the first time, they have got

it right now, but it's going to be tough, it must be awful to disgrace your brother.

But he has shamed all of them without compunction, and that's really what it comes down to with

Prince Andrew, right, a selfish ass son of a bitch.

Nobody else mattered, just what he needed, what for he needed, and how he could enrich

himself.

I think that the royal family, they waited way too long to get rid of this fool.

Some sources close to Charles say he was always going to choose the nuclear option of formally

stripping Andrew of his bobbles and evicting him from royal lodge, and was just biting

his time to get the legal and constitutional ducks in a row.

And of course, even though he's king, in modern times there's a lot of steps that have

to be taken to do something like this, right, especially if somebody has a lease, and

there's other issues that are embedded in whatever sort of deal he signed.

So he had to bring the lawyers in and figure out what's what, and they came up with this

plan.

But other friends of the king believe Charles, who was heckled during an engagement, could

see that the half measure of putting Andrew's titles into a dance would not wash.

What's changed in two weeks is the king and queen have been out taking the temperature

of the public.

They're doing national surveys at every engagement set a friend.

They have felt the public anger and they have acted.

You can feel the exolation of the public going at last, something we understand.

There's been too much technical and confusing posturing of titles being put into obedience.

People don't know what that means, but with the king taking hold of it now, this feels

final.

This is the handling people have been waiting to see 1000%.

This should have been done years ago.

They could have avoided all this nonsense if they would have just got rid of this moron

years ago.

The friend added the king and his courtiers could see that Andrew's problem was becoming

a contagion that was more serious than the illness itself, with more and more questions

being asked about the institution.

Don't forget, this is what the king's bill for.

He's been forged in the fires of reputational adversity and I've never seen him struggle

to make the big, difficult decisions.

It took a long time to do this, huh?

I would think that this would have been the first thing you did when you became king.

Yo, go get Uncle Touchy and tell him the king wants to talk to him.

Others who know Charles 76 who is still receiving weekly cancer treatments feel he should never

have had to make the decisions.

They have been forced by Andrew's refusal to keep a lower profile at family gatherings

like the Duchess of Kent's funeral in September and his refusal to leave royal lodge for

Frogmore Cottage and Windsor.

The king's original suggestion made more than a year ago.

Brows out here crying about going to Frogmore fucking Cottage.

Meanwhile most of us get booted from our pad for get it.

We either out on the streets or we're going to like a weekly or some shit.

But God forbid this dude has to go to Frogmore Cottage, ho ho Cottage and Windsor.

I cannot even explain to you the kind of contempt I have for people like Prince Andrew.

A former courtier said this must be taking an emotional toll on the king.

He stood by his brother until now and his brother should have done the decent thing by him

and fallen on his sword years ago.

But that just goes to the measure of the man.

He's got no moral compass of all the members of the royal family.

He was the most loathed by the household so there are not many people sobbing in their

cornflakes.

Well, yeah, if you run around acting like this dude for all these years, why is anyone

going to want to have anything to do with you, even your own family?

I can't imagine my own family hating me like that holy shit.

John Healy, the defense secretary told BBC Sunday with Laura Kunzenberg that parliament

was working to strip Andrew of his last remaining honorary title of Vice Admiral.

He was given the rank on his 55th birthday in 2015 and retained it after giving up his

other military positions in 2022.

And that is actually something that's already went through now.

And he's giving that title up as well.

Healy said, we've seen Andrew surrender the honorary positions he sat throughout the

military and guided it again by the king.

We are working now to remove the last remaining title of Vice Admiral that he has.

As whether Andrew could lose his military medals as well, Healy said they were medals

for his service and added, I don't have an update for you on that.

But just as with the Vice Admiral rank and title, we would be guided by the decision

the king makes.

And that's probably the fairest way to go about it, right?

Let the king do his thing and then you step in if shit goes south.

A source who knows Andrew and the royal family said Andrew had repeatedly ignored advice

on how to handle successive scandals which had he taken it could have avoided the need

for Charles drastic reaction.

Never do an interview thinking you were more clever than the tons of research that has

been done by the interviewer and the team they said.

The way you treat people will always be reflected when you are in trouble.

If you're in a position of public scrutiny, take advice from people who will tell you

the truth and things you might not want to hear.

And not from the people who tell you what you want to hear.

In other words, stop listening to the lady Victoria Havi, stop listening to that Brian

Basham cat, and the other dude I don't even know his name that he hired to write a book

or whatever.

Talk about a bunch of grift and ass clowns.

Just stiff upper lip, grift and ass clowns.

That's right.

I said it.

And there ain't shit.

None of you are going to do about it.

Go sip on your tea and shut the fuck up.

It's thought that Andrew will move to a property on the Sanderingham estate in Norfolk

in the coming months, funded privately by Charles who will make appropriate provisions

for him.

He is likely to keep a low profile when the prince and princess of Wales are in the

residence at Anmer Hall, their country home on the estate, where they often spend weekends

and school holidays with their children.

William and Kate are understood to have supported Andrews move to Norfolk from Windsor, where

they have just moved to their new home for its lodge.

Sarah Ferguson, Andrew's ex-wife who has lived with them for years at Royal Lodge, despite

their divorce in 1996, will make alternative arrangements.

How about an only fans page, where you sell feedpicks, you weirdo?

While Andrews 65 will still be able to ride from the stables at Sanderingham, those who

know him believe he will find it hard to adjust.

One source said, I genuinely don't know how he will acclimate.

Of all the royal family, he is the one who will find the his reduced circumstances the

hardest to bear.

He won't be allowed in the big house, he won't have Fergie who's been his strength,

and stay for all these years.

He won't be able to see Beatrice and Eugenia as much, the king and the rest of the family

won't want to be seen with him.

What will he do with the rest of his life?

Well, I don't know, how about join the priesthood and become a fucking monk?

Probably a good idea.

Sources close to Ferguson 66 say that despite deciding to move forward independently from

Andrew personally and professionally, she is not deserting him as some have suggested.

A friend said, they will still come together as a family, unit and she will still support

Andrew.

Their girls are very much on side and behind her together.

Well, that's cool.

Do what you got to do, just get off the public dime.

That's my biggest problem with Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, the fact that they're

on the public dime and yo, I'm not even an English taxpayer.

But a lot of you listeners are, a lot of the people that, you know, follow the story

are and I'm pissed off on behalf of them.

I can't even imagine this clown getting public funds, but not only was he getting public

funds, it was being shoved in everybody's face and there's a saying on your way up that

tree of success, watch who you're stepping on.

Because on your way back down, those are the very same people you're going to pass

again and considering this oath's borscht behavior, well, not going to be fun for them.

The king and those close to him maintain that despite taking action against Andrew because

of serious lapses of judgment, there remains a duty of care to him.

The pressure on him is likely to continue with ongoing scrutiny of his links to Epstein,

as ties to the alleged Chinese spy Yang Teng Bo, who denied being an agent of influence

and with whom he forged a friendship and business relationship.

And this decade of jetting around the world, that taxpayers expense in his role as the

UK special representative for trade and investment, like when he went to New Mexico to meet with

Bill Richardson and go to Zoro Ranch, oh yeah, that time.

Andrew also continues to face calls from Robert's family and others to assist the authorities

here and in the U.S. with their investigation into Epstein, Robert's brother Sky Roberts

told BBC that he needs to be behind bars.

Charles in Sandringham, this weekend hoping for a few days of peace, he will also hope

his decisive action last week takes the heat out of the Andrew problem for now, and that

the public's focus will in time, shift from scandal back to the Royal Agenda.

Prince William will arrive in Brazil on Monday for five days of engagement surrounding

his environmental or shot awards in Rio de Janeiro, which he and his aides hope will

not be overshadowed by his uncle's fall from grace.

He will also attend the COP 30 climate conference in Balaam alongside Sir Keostama and deliver

a keynote speech.

Just as Royal sources say the Prince of Wales fully supports the King's leadership on

the Andrew problem, they are key to emphasize that the King and his heir both longstanding

environmental activists are in lockstep on official business this week.

Royal source said the Prince of Wales has been speaking with his majesty about his speech

at COP this week, obviously it's something that they both feel extremely passionate about.

This is a really important moment, the first time the Prince of Wales has represented both

his father and his majesty's government at COP.

The King and Queen will undertake public engagements this week and next, the Princess Royal

will make official visits to Australia and Singapore.

A friend of the Royal family said they will do what they always do, they'll get back

to work and remind people of the public service, the institution can return to after it rides

out these storms.

The family will do what they've done for generations, they'll keep calm and carry on.

Well, that's nice, I'm glad they're doing that.

Meanwhile, Epstein survivors are still trying to pick up the pieces.

So at least this is a step in the right direction, as far as Prince Andrew, getting the boot,

and the royal family, the King especially in the Queen, so here we are watching the last

act of a royal farce that's been dragging on way too long, finally limb to its pathetic

conclusion.

Prince Andrew, sorry, former Prince, has finally been dealt one thing as money, privilege

and mommy's influence couldn't buy, consequences.

And you can almost hear the sound of that gilded safety net snapping under the weight of

his own stupidity.

This wasn't some hit job or smear campaign, this was karma showing up fashionably late,

sipping tea and saying, your table is ready, sir.

And what's wild is that he still doesn't seem to get it, still walking around acting

like he's been wronged, like the world just doesn't understand him, buddy.

The world understood you just fine, we saw the photos, we saw the arrogance, we heard

the interviews, you're not a victim of circumstance, you're the author of your own humiliation.

And now stripped of titles, and clinging to what little scraps of relevance he has left,

Andrew stands as a walking cautionary tale, or a reminder that you can't outrun the

truth forever, not even with a crown on your head, and guards at your gate.

So yeah, maybe this isn't the kind of story that ends with redemption or reflection, maybe

it just ends exactly the way it should.

With a disgraced royal sitting alone in a house too big for his ego, replaying all the

moments he could have chosen decency and didn't.

The mask is off, the titles are gone, and the game is over, and the next time he wants

to talk about dignity, maybe he should start by finding some, because for all his wealth

and privilege, Andrew Mountbatten-Winzor is broke in the one currency that actually matters,

character.

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