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'He couldn't keep his pants closed': the new documentary that embarrasses Prince Andrew

2022-10-06T10:26:54.646Z


Broadcast this Wednesday, October 6 on the Peacock platform, the documentary Prince Andrew: Banished makes new revelations about the intimacy of Elizabeth II's favorite son.


His legal troubles are behind him.

But he continues to be talked about.

Less than a month after the death of Elizabeth II, Prince Andrew is the subject of a documentary that looks back on the sex scandal that cost him his place with the Windsors.

Produced by the American platform Peacock,

Prince Andrew: Banished

explores the relationship of the Duke of York with the multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trafficking of minors.

On this occasion, he gives the floor to the former press secretary of the Queen of England, to journalists, relatives of the Duke of York but also to the lawyers of his main accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

All draw an unflattering portrait of the one who is said to be the favorite son of Queen Elizabeth II.

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“The problem is that this man is an idiot.

There's always a runt in a litter, and Andrew was," said Dickie Arbiter, Elizabeth II's former press secretary.

Royalty expert Phil Dampier adds: "He has never smoked, taken drugs or drunk alcohol, his only major addiction is sex."

"What we said at dinners was that he couldn't keep his pants closed," says journalist Helen Kirwan-Taylor, as revealed by the

Daily Mail

.

In video, Prince Andrew called "old pervert" at the passage of the coffin of Elizabeth II in Edinburgh

"A revolving door"

In the documentary, a former royal protection officer (serving from 1998 to 2004), Paul Page, recalls being shocked by “the number of women who visited his private apartments”.

Comings and goings that did not escape the other police officers on duty at Buckingham Palace.

“We used to joke that he should have a revolving door in his bedroom,” reports the site  

Page Six

.

“The amount of women coming in and out of there... It was literally every other day someone came to see him.

A different woman in her room every night.”

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The fall of the favorite son

Suspected of being involved in the Jeffrey Epstein affair, the father of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie had been stripped of his title of Duke of York in April.

In mid-January, the youngest son of Elizabeth II also saw his military titles and royal patronages withdrawn.

An American, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, indeed accuses the prince of having raped her when she was 17, through billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

Threatened with a lawsuit in the United States, Prince Andrew had put an end to the proceedings by concluding an amicable agreement with her, up to 12 million pounds (14 million euros).

A sum paid in part by Elizabeth II and Charles III, who did not hesitate to dip into their personal funds to protect the already damaged image of the royal family.

The image of the Windsors scratched

The sidelining of Andrew in any case reflects the serious damage he is accused of having done to the royal family.

The disastrous interview granted by prince Andrew to the BBC, in 2019, had not helped matters.

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Faced with the scandal, Queen Elizabeth II had no choice but to deprive the Duke of York of his titles in early 2022, encouraged, according to some, by his son Charles and his grandson William.

“Monarchies that have lost public support have disappeared,” Robert Hazell, a constitutional expert at University College London, told AFP in September.

Any shrewd monarch is always attentive to public opinion and quick to react.”

And there is, according to the expert, a great chance that King Charles “would not react differently from his mother”.

Source: lefigaro

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