Shame of royal albatross Andrew
PRINCE Andrew’s infamous BBC interview about his close friendship with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein ended his life as a public member of the Royal Family.
In the car-crash grilling, the Prince claimed that he severed all contact with the depraved financier in late 2010.
But as The Sun on Sunday reveals today, this claim was untrue.
His chummy email to Epstein stating “we are in this together” lays bare the closeness between the eighth in line to the throne and a man convicted of horrific sex crimes.
In the BBC Newsnight interview in 2019, the Prince said he did not remember meeting Virginia Giuffre in 2001, when she was just 17.
To be charitable — and to use the memorable words of his late mother — the email suggests that recollections may vary.
Today’s disclosure will once again reduce whatever credibility the Prince — who ended up paying about £12million to tragic Ms Giuffre to settle her sexual assault lawsuit out of court — still has with the public.
His tawdry antics and entitled arrogance have besmirched the Royal Family — this country’s greatest asset on the world stage.
Yet the Duke of York remains a senior royal, despite being banned from royal duties, and still lives in the imposing Royal Lodge in Windsor.
There needs to be a full and independent investigation into ALL his dealings with Epstein.
It is high time the Duke of Murk finally came clean.
Spy blame games
THE longer the row over the collapsed China spy trial goes on, the more concerning the situation becomes.
It is bad enough that vital secrets may have been leaked to a hostile state.
But it would be disgraceful if we were left unable to prosecute those accused of treachery simply because our Government fears upsetting the powerful Chinese Communist Party.
As the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says, it should not be difficult for Government officials to state the obvious that China is a threat to our security.
Sir Keir Starmer’s directly appointed National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell seems to have played a key role in the saga.
But is it credible that the PM and other ministers were kept in the dark?
If it turns out that Downing Street did place its stuttering drive for economic growth above the country’s security, then that truly would be a scandal.
