From Edward VIII to Prince Andrew: Measuring the Scale of a Royal Crisis (3/28/26)

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

The monarchy in the UK has been able to weather some serious storms throughout its history, including the abdication of Edward VIII.

But of all the scandals that the monarchy has faced, the Prince Andrew scandal is perhaps the most damaging.

And if we're listening to Andrew Lowney, he says that what's going on with Prince Andrew over shadows the abdication of Edward VIII.

And look, it's certainly more embarrassing, right? With Edward VIII, he abdicated, and they moved on.

But with Prince Andrew, this dude's hanging around like a barnacle on the bottom of a boat, and he just won't go away.

So every single time some new information comes out, the monarchy's forced to deal with it all over again.

So basically what I'm telling you is that Andrew is like the human form of herpes.

Even when you use the Valtrax or whatever medicine they have these days for it, it's going to come back eventually.

And that's the case with Prince Andrew.

The fact that they babyed him, the fact that they let him get away with the bullshit for so long has now led us to this point.

And it's become a gigantic festering wound right in the belly of the monarchy.

And according to Andrew Lowney, it might be a wound that is mortal.

So today we have an article from the Daily Mail and the headline.

Andrew, Mountbatten, Windsor, links to Epstein's scandal is more of a crisis for royals than abdication of Edward VIII, biographer Andrew Lowney claims.

This article was authored by Mark Duel.

Andrew, Mountbatten, Windsor's links to Jeffrey Epstein have given the royal family a bigger crisis than Edward VIII's abdication, a biographer claimed today.

Andrew Lowney said that public anger is greater about the former Prince's behavior and his links to the pedophile finance here than when the King stepped down in 1936.

Well, look, the King stepped down. He did the right thing and he faded from publicity, right? Faded from the public view.

But Prince Andrew, he tried to hold on till the very end, and not only that, he continued to lie about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein all the way up until the arrest.

And I'm sure he was still lying about it to the police.

Do you really think that Prince Andrew at this point is going to tell you the truth?

Or that he's even capable of telling the truth?

Because I just don't believe it. I don't think he's capable of telling the truth even.

And you know what they say, right? When you tell a lie for so long, you start thinking that shit's true.

And what Prince Andrew, he's probably convinced himself, he's done nothing wrong. And that whole entire mindset was enabled by the Queen for all those years.

She let Prince Andrew, or should I say the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, get away with pretty much whatever you wanted and that led to the behavior that we're seeing here.

Mr. Lowney, who wrote and titled The Rise and Fall of the House of York, compared current events to an Edward abdicated to marry U.S. divorcee while a Simpson.

Oh, what a scandal. He wants to marry a divorcee. What a scandal.

Imagine being the king and not being allowed to marry whoever you wanted to marry.

You had to marry some stuff he asked, noble woman or whatever.

Sounds like a lot of fun. What's the point being the king if I can't marry who I want to marry and do what I want to do? You know, within the bounds of reason, obviously.

But I'm talking about my personal life. If I want to marry Willa from down the block who I grew up with, then that's who I should marry.

I think these ancient customs should be left in ancient times.

The author told the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday that Edward's abdication was a three-day wonder and the public did not engage with the full details at the time.

Mr. Lowney also cited how Edward's support of Nazis was not yet common knowledge and how he resigned voluntarily to marry a woman that he loved reported the times.

So look, I'm not too familiar with his support of Nazis and whatnot. I know that there was support by Edward, but I'm not some historian who can go deep into the weeds and tell you one way or the other.

Now, if you're going to support the Nazis, probably a good idea to abdicate, right?

But if you're abdicating because you're in love with some woman who is not a royal, then I don't even find that to be a scandal to be honest with you.

It's just like that whole Harry and Meghan Markle thing. I really just don't care. The inner workings of the royal family do not interest me one bit.

What interests me is how they're given protection from the law that the rest of us would never receive. That's what interests me.

The biographer also wrote Trader King, the scandalous exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, compared this to Andrew being stripped of his royal titles and honors after allegations continued to be revealed about his relationship with Epstein.

And if anybody should have been stripped, if anybody should have lost their titles, certainly Andrew.

Look, I have no empathy for it. This man had every benefit in the whole entire world.

Imagine having everything Andrew had just given to you and squandering it all and then crying about how it's unfair or how you're being targeted.

Think about how hard you work every single day to put food on the table. Make sure your kids have everything they need, everything they want.

Make sure your life is as comfortable as possible. And think about how expensive it all is.

Then imagine waking up one day and being the son of the Queen of England. Can you imagine how different your life would be?

Do you really think you'd sit around thinking about, oh, I want to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein or I don't have enough as the queen's son. I need more.

It's so absurd to me and I think it makes me so mad because I know how hard everybody works to get where they're going.

And then you have a guy like this that just takes it off or granted.

Andrew's 66 was released under investigation on February 19th after being held for 11 hours in police custody on suspicion of his conduct in public office.

The former Duke of York was also stripped of his royal title and evicted from royal lodge in Windsor by his brother in the wake of the Epstein scandal.

And look, that's all great. That's awesome. But it should have happened a long time ago.

And the fact that they coddled this dude and let him get away with all of this by enabling him for all these years is a big problem.

And at some point, the royal family is going to have to face it head on because if they don't, it's just going to keep festering like we've seen over all these years.

So they have to just deal with it at some point. And finally, the king got to that point, right? Enough is enough.

I can't take this anymore. This is the kind of thing that can ruin everything, basically.

So I have to cut bait. And Prince Andrew was effectively voted off the island.

But Mr. Lowney said it was unlikely that Andrew will be prosecuted because the royals will not want them in court saying everyone knew about this. Why am I being penalized?

And I think that is the very likely scenario. Unfortunately, you know, the UK, they're spinning their wheels here.

And the optics are good right now. But are those optics going to remain the same if they don't prosecute Mandelson and Prince Andrew?

We all know the story and we all know how the UK has been very hesitant when it comes to enforcing justice, surrounding abstinence crimes.

So I remain skeptical that we're going to see real action here.

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Andrew was spotted over the weekend for the first time since his arrest, cutting a solitary figure as he took his dog for a walk around Sandringham.

The King's disgraced brother wandered about the countryside for 90 minutes near Wood Farm, part of Charles the State, and Norfolk, where he now lives.

Talk about a fall from grace.

This dude went from Galavanting all over the world, enjoying the hospitality of the most famous, the most powerful, to now walking around with the dog in Norfolk for 90 minutes, and that's the extent of his socializing.

Well, you know what they say about making your own bed, right?

It's the first time that Andrew had been pictured since photos were taken of him, slumped in the rear of a Range Rover following his arrest four weeks ago.

Andrew appears to be desperately clinging onto his royal styling, however, hundreds of removal boxes stamped, HRH office, HRH sitting room, and even HRH meeting room, were last delivered to his new abode.

This guy just won't give up. The party's over, buddy. You're not the prince anymore. You're not a royal. You're about as royal as me. And if you were a regular person, your ass would probably already be in jail.

And the only reason you're not is because you're the queen's son. But short of that, your bitch ass would be in jail already.

The five bedroom house has been hastily upgraded in recent days with security fencing, CCTV, and broadband installed, as well as works carried out on the grounds.

Last week, Scott Lignard's chief said it was investigating a whole range of sexual allegations against Andrew to see if they merit a criminal investigation.

Andrew was accused of having sex with Jeffrey Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts, three times, including when she was 17, after being trafficked by the pedophile financier.

The former prince was arrested last month on suspicion of misconduct in public office over claims that he shared sensitive information with Epstein when he was the UK's trade envoy. But Andrew has not been arrested in relation to any sex offenses.

Well, that's true. But now that they open the door, we all know they're going to walk through, right? And that's what's going on now.

Behind the scenes, they're going through all the evidence, whatever they can find, whatever they have, and they're going to try and figure out if any other criminal charges are warranted.

So we'll see what happens. But like usual, I remain skeptical that we're going to get any real justice here.

So like all the other stories we're keeping an eye on, we'll keep an eye on this one as the investigation into the former prince Andrew continues to grow.

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