The shamelessness of Prince Andrew of Britain really takes a bit of a beating.
He has suggested that a photograph of him with his arm around a teen sex trafficking victim was faked because he had “chubby fingers.” He said the description of the same woman pouring sweat into a nightclub must be a lie because she can’t sweat (can). He attributed his one-week 2010 visit to Jeffrey Epstein to his extreme sense of honor. Don’t even mention his love for pizza.
Incredibly, Andrew now seems to be using his father’s death to crawl from the rock of royal exile to which his brother Charles, who has long struggled with him, banished him after the disastrous November 2019 News night interview in which those and many other questionable allegations were made, including the cynical lie that would cooperate with police investigations into Epstein’s crimes.
Leaving the church on Sunday morning, just 48 hours after the death of his father, whose greatest contempt was reserved for the embarrassed family, Andrew made a phone line for the camera and began giving the which seemed like a leverless interview on a news camera about how the whole royal family “felt a great sense of loss.”
Andrew has missed his media appearances. He kept following. What he appreciated was the tributes paid to his father. How “quiet” his father was as a man. He was also careful to suggest that his father’s death had helped him connect him with the proletariat, saying that “he took it home to me not only from our loss, but from the loss that everyone has felt, for so many people who have died and lost loved ones during the pandemic. “
It was surprisingly shocking to see Andrew, not a drop of sweat, despite gaining a few extra pounds, bad British teeth and all, standing there in his black suit, acting as if nothing had happened, working independently for the cameras.
Perhaps we had all imagined the last year and a half, especially the time when Prince Charles, now more than ever the head of the royal family, had stripped him of all his royal patronage, expelled him from his office in the Buckingham Palace and withdrew its obscene $ 300,000 annual grant to the British taxpayer.
It was, at first, quite a harmless waffle emanating from Andrew’s mouth. He might not have even made it to the evening news. But if there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to energize the British public, it’s a vision of the most mysterious: how the queen really feels, up close and private.
Asked about the effect of Philip’s death on His Majesty, Andrew surprisingly decided to go there: “He described that he had left a huge void in his life,” he said, adding that he had described her husband’s passing as a “miracle”. “.
His words were picked up on news websites and TV stations in a matter of moments.
Considering that Andrew was filmed outside the private royal chapel of All Saints at Windsor Castle, which he had attended along with other members of the royal family, including his younger brother, Prince Edward (who spoke more traditionally to journalists outside the chapel saying the death was a “terrible shock”) it began to be assumed that Andrew had been allowed to speak to the media.
Had Charles changed his mind? It sounded amazing, but did Andrew re-enter the enchanted circle, entitled to free food and air miles once again?
On Monday, however, leaks began to leak suggesting that the assumption was by no means an exact characterization.
Dan Wooton, the journalist who broke the news that Harry and Meghan were leaving the UK, reported to the Daily mail that sources had told him: “Prince Andrew may expect this sad situation to change things, but Prince Charles is adamant that there is no going back as the charges hang over him. He spoke to the camera privately because it is “No one can stop him from doing it.”
Neither the palace nor a consulting firm retained by Prince Andreu answered The Daily Beast’s questions.
Andrew’s fantasy about the return has often been reported in the last two years. And he still follows, with a source who is said to be “close to Prince Andrew” and tells Wooton, “He still has thoughts that he may return. He really believes it’s possible.”
If Andrew needs more reminders that he is no longer welcome in British public life or living rooms, and that his father’s death doesn’t change anything, he may want to take this statistic into account: almost 400 people have already written in the BBC to complain about Andrew appears on the corporation’s coverage.