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This marks the conclusion of Prince Andrew’s association with any official Royal duties, with his remaining time characterized by the five infamous words he shared with Jeffrey Epstein: ‘We are in this together.’
Not only did this remark exhibit a distasteful alliance with a convicted sex offender, but it also serves as undeniable evidence that the Duke of York was not truthful during his damaging 2019 Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis.
Understandably, viewers could easily detect his deceit, especially when he asserted it was ‘right’ and ‘honourable’ for him to personally visit New York and lodge at Epstein’s vast mansion to sever ties with the disgraced financier.
And now we know that, 12 weeks after they were pictured together in Central Park, he was emailing him as if no break in relations had ever happened.
The Duke also declared to Maitlis that he couldn’t recall meeting Virginia Giuffre and questioned the authenticity of a photograph showing them together, even suggesting the picture might have been altered by claiming: ‘We can’t be certain as to whether or not that’s my hand on her.’
Nonetheless, his communication with Epstein, which followed the release of the photograph in the press, did not question, ‘Who is this Virginia Giuffre everyone is speaking about?’
He knew perfectly well that she was one of the underage girls used by Epstein to lure his friends into positions of compromise.
He knew he’d had inappropriate – and, in the US at least, illegal – relations with her.
The leaked correspondence stands as conclusive evidence that the Duke deceived during his BBC Newsnight interview, where he stated he had ‘never had any contact’ with Epstein after being spotted together during a walk in Central Park, New York, in December 2010.
In his disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019, Andrew also suggested the picture with Ms Giuffre was a crude forgery – but a 2023 investigation by this newspaper provided incontrovertible proof the photograph is genuine
The MoS has verified the email address used by Andrew, while Epstein’s email address has repeatedly appeared in court documents. Prince Andrew declined to comment
Perhaps it was just such relations he was referring to when he promised Epstein: ‘We’ll play some more soon!’
To my mind ‘play’, to these predatory, middle-aged lechers means ‘we will continue to exploit underage girls’.
We all know what psychological damage this does to people when they are trafficked or forced into unwanted sex.
Virginia’s suicide was not an accident and Andrew must accept his role in her death.
So now, the questions that the Palace, and the King, have long tried to avoid are growing louder with each leaked email.
When will they actually send Andrew packing? When will the King, who is his brother’s landlord, say that he and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson simply cannot go on living in Royal Lodge, a 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park? That they cannot attend royal funerals?
That they are not to be lined up with the Royals for church services, Garter ceremonies or anything else? That they are out, completely out?
But royal exile for the Duke could invite even greater problems for the King. The fear is that, untethered from royal protocol, Andrew will become the loosest of loose cannons and his broadsides will splinter the entire Monarchy.
The King and the Prince of Wales cannot be seen to support or underwrite Andrew any more. His very existence as an official Royal is a scandal. PIctured (l-r): Prince Andrew, King Charles, Prince William, Catherine Duchess of Cambridge
It is a major crisis for the Monarchy, perhaps the gravest since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936. Pictured: King Charles with Prince Andrew at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral last month
For a start, he would need to find an income to fund his lavish lifestyle. Fergie, who has enlisted the help of many a poorly-paid ghostwriter to pen her ludicrously bad children’s books, will no doubt advise Andrew to sign a book deal.
Any publisher would lick their lips at the vault of Windsor secrets he could open, and pay handsomely for it.
But they would backpedal fast if Andrew continued to deny any involvement with the Epstein crowd.
The only book deal that would be credible is one in which he reveals as much about himself as he does his family, think: Confessions Of A Sex Addict Prince. The Palace must hope that he would not agree to such a memoir as it would be tantamount to admitting criminal offences.
However many millions he was offered to write it, he and Fergie would get through the money in next to no time.
So the pair would have to beg for handouts from monied friends, be they paedophile financiers, oligarchs from the ex-Soviet ‘stans or Chinese spies.
So this is a real problem, and not only for the immediate family. It is a major crisis for the Monarchy, perhaps the gravest since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.
The King and the Prince of Wales cannot be seen to support or underwrite Andrew any more. His very existence as an official Royal is a scandal.
So they must cast him out, for if they show him mercy, they are themselves implicated, and we are only a hair’s breadth away from a republic.
