Prince Andrew pushed from royal duties
(CNS): Queen Elizabeth has moved to curtail the damaging fallout from Prince Andrew’s calamitous BBC interview last weekend about his friendship with the convicted, but deceased, child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an official statement released Wednesday, as criticisms of the prince mounted, the Duke of York (59) said he would “step back from public duties for the foreseeable future” and was “willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations”.
However, he will continue his work with a business mentoring initiative, Pitch@Palace, Buckingham Palace has said.
The statement followed an exodus of companies and institutions related to the Duke of York’s charities, and pressure from a woman who says she was trafficked by Epstein to London when she was a teenager to have sex with the prince, an allegation he denies.
In his statement Prince Andrew said it had become clear that his former association with Epstein had become a major disruption to the royal family’s work as well as the charities where he is a patron.
“Therefore, I have asked Her Majesty if I may step back from public duties for the foreseeable future, and she has given her permission,” he said. “I continue to unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. His suicide has left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims, and I deeply sympathise with everyone who has been affected and wants some form of closure. I can only hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives.”
For several months questions have arisen about Andrew’s ties to Epstein, who killed himself in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. As a result the prince made the decision to conduct a TV interview on BBC Newsnight, which appears to have made the situation even worse.
His decision to stop his royal work, described by Buckingham Palace as personal one, was made after discussions with his mother and brother, who are said to be horrified by the situation.
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And we had his loser of a wife down here speaking!!whose great idea that was??
Ever listened closely to “Tommy”? Pete Townsend’s perversions are all over that album and more Who material. Townsend is a perv!! Talented sure, great music sure but he’s still a pervert!
If you were surprised at Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide it wasn’t anymore than he was…
Something nasty happened in the woodshed.
All Commonwealth parliaments should be abolished and the Queen together with the respective Governors General would then rule absolutely. Far more efficient and cheaper.
The Pizza Express in Woking is the best. The American Hot pizza restored my ability to sweat after I had an overdose of adrenaline when I was shot at in the Falklands. I remember especially going there on 10 March 2001 which was very unusual and honourable.
Get some original material, plagiarist.
Does anyone still believe in innocent till proven guilty? There some chance he was not involved at all. Fertile was pictured at Epstein’s estate and she has not been accused of molesting young women.
Internet, good intention gone wrong. Lynching is instantaneous and permanent. “Online outrage” has replaced judicial process.
Innocent until proven guilty is a very narrow presumption applicable in criminal trials. We can draw our own conclusions from what we see and act on them otherwise.
Randy Andy! That tallywhacker of yours was bound to get you in trouble sooner or later!
One of the things I love about the monarchy is their civilized way of dealing with scandal. They brush it under the rug with a silk broom so that nobody can hear it happening! Oh! That that would be the way we all could do it!!!
God knows what’s under the rug around here. I would be scared to look.
LoL
Hey, Cliff Richards was accused and not charged, Pete Townsend used “research” as his excuse, Jimmy Saville died before he was exposed. All these alleged “high brow” UK perverts seem to wiggle out! Connections?
Don’t you dare lump in Pete Townsend in with those two creeps. If you actually look into what Pete Townsend was doing he was enraged and it really was research, although not his job, it was a little bit more complicated than what you are trying to put down here.
#nonce
Remind me again…what are “royal duties” would that be skiing in Switzerland? Polo?? Having dinner?? Sunbathing?
So Charles is not the only awful child of The Queen … Yes we heard the disgusting tapes of him on the phone with Camilla yet we spend thousands of dollars welcoming them in Cayman; the most undeserved; whilst our Senior citizens, many with lifelong debilitating illness live in abject poverty and squalor …
AND here’s another brother … a perfect example of how the rich think:- that they can do whatever want; destroy as much innocent lives as they can for their sick & warped pleasure and that it will remain under the rug💔
BUT GOD … Oh He’s THE BEST ….
He sends the rain on the just & unjust
He opens doors man can’t
And closes windows man can’t open …
And then, like icing on the cake He deftly puts leaders in place that mankind vehemently detests; ALL for His purpose:-
TO OPEN THE LIDS ON PANDORA BOXES TO SPILL THE TRUTH OF THOSE MEN & WOMEN WHO ARE LAUDED & REVERED
Yippee!! Thank You Lord
11.52am Fortunately the Lord has not had the opportunity to look under the rug here in Cayman, as here we keep it tightly nailed down, for good reason.
You know damn well Epstein did NOT kill himself!
He’s still alive. In hiding with Elvis, Jim, Kurt, Whitney and Tupac.
Your “joke” is not funny. Epstein’s murder was orchestrated.
stop with the conspiracy nonsense.
But it’s actually not. The two guards were to check in on him every 30 minutes lied about checking in on him. Now they’re on trial…. because you know someone paid them to not check it on him. Wonder what old rich and in power men would do that?
Maybe Epstein paid them, so he could take the easy way out. That’s what seems most likely to me… or the guards are just typical loafers.
But FOX News said Hillary did it.
The unfunny truth is that FOX determines the ‘truth’ for about 40% of Americans.
And Selassie
Yeah, Hillary did it.
Trump and other wealthy men who took advantage.
Yawn. Fix the damn dump.
10:26, Get your priorities correct. A new turtle farm on the Brac is a much bigger priority.
only fools still cling to the idea of a monarchy.
inbred dimwits that are held up as gods…..zzzzzzzzzz
The royal monarchy is no different to a new cruise port. Both are used to promote tourism and create economic growth for the country.
How many simultaneous passenger disembarkations can Her Majesty accommodate?
I’ll be getting off at the Queens bottom.