Prince Andrew's Annus horribilis never ends. For several months, the Duke of York has been regularly quoted in the Epstein Affair. After giving a highly criticized interview to the BBC on November 16, 2019, Prince Charles' brother said on Wednesday November 20 that he was ending his public engagements. “It has become clear to me in recent days that the circumstances of my past ties to Jeffrey Epstein have become a major disruption to the work of my family and mine […] I asked His Majesty if I could retire of my public commitments in the near future ”said the prince before revealing that he had the approval of Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Andrew is notably singled out for not having distanced himself from Jeffrey Epstein, a famous American financier accused by many young underage women of sexual assault, and found dead in prison in 2019. During his controversial interview, the son by Queen Elizabeth II has simply challenged the charges of a young woman who claims to have been forced to have sex with him when she was only 17 years old.
Controversial relationships?
But that's not all. In its edition of Thursday June 11, 2020, Paris Match publishes an article on “Windsor Ball” and relays the words of his biographer Nigel Cawthorne, whose book The End of the Monarchy and Epstein is published this month. "Andrew is connected with all that the planet has of dictators and sulfur character", he says. And our colleagues to detail: "Among them, Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, a son-in-law of former Tunisian President Ben Ali, a Libyan arms dealer or oligarchs from Kazakhstan." The magazine adds: “Special envoy of the United Kingdom to develop trade relations all over the planet, until 2011 and the start of the Epstein scandal, Andrew also took the opportunity to form financially advantageous friendships' without always knowing how to set a limit between his missions of representations and his private life. '” Result: according to a court official, “For the royal family, Andrew became radioactive.”
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