IS PRINCE ANDREW A PEDOPHILE?

A pedophile is a person who is a child molester who has sex with under-aged children regardless of the sex of the children.

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There are two well-known sayings that are most applicable in this article. They are;

You are recognized by the people you associate with.

If you live with an associate who is a pedophile, you are presumed to be a pedophile.

If a duck quacks like a duck and walks like a duck. it is a duck.

If you know that an associate is having sex with under-aged children and you do nothing to stop it, then you are presumed to be a pedophile. 

I wish to point out that there is no evidence that the prince is homosexual. Whatever sex crimes he is suspected of having committed is related only to under- aged girls and not boys.

The prince’s background

Andrew Albert Christian Edward was born on the 19^th of February 1960. He is a member of the British royal family. He is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne but as of November 2019, he is eighth in line. He is the  Duke of York.

As of February 2015, he holds the honoury rank of vice admiral in the Royal Navy, in which he served as an active-duty helicopter pilot and instructor and also as the captain of a warship. He saw active service during the Falklands War and he flew on multiple missions including  firing anti-surface warfare,  Exocet missile decoys, and assisted in  in casualty evacuations.

In 1986, Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson; the couple's marriage, separation and eventual divorce in 1996 attracted a high level of media coverage. As well as carrying out various official engagements, he served as Britain's Special Representative for International Trade and Investment until July 2011.

Up to March 2011, the prince had an honorable reputation.  But then, his reputation was flushed so far  down the toilet to the extent ,that  it couldn’t be retrieved. 

n March 2011, it was reported that the Duke's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was producing "a steady stream of criticism". Sarah, thebDuchess of York, disclosed that the Duke helped arrange for Epstein to pay off some of her debts. The Duke was photographed in December 2010 strolling with Epstein in Central Park during a visit to New York City, according to The Daily Telegraph, while negotiating his financial help with Epstein.  In July 2011, the Duke was reported to have cut all ties with Epstein, and the Duke's role as Trade Envoy was terminated that same month.

In January 2015, there was renewed pressure for Buckingham Palace to explain the Duke's connection with Epstein.  Peter Oborne, writing in The Daily Telegraph in January 2015, stated that "the proven facts are grim enough. What was the prince doing, in the first place, with Epstein, a who was paedophile who was jailed in 2008 for soliciting young girls for under-age prostitution?

That same month, Virginia Roberts Giuffre made allegations of sexual impropriety against the Duke in court papers related to a civil action in Florida arising from her connection to the Epstein case, but to which the Duke was not a party. Roberts claimed that the Duke was among other men, including "a former prime minister" and Alan Dershowitz, (an American lawyer) who had sex with her while she was a 17 year-old teenager. She alleged that Epstein paid her £10,000 to have sex with the Duke. She asserted that she had sex with the Duke on three occasions, including a trip to London in 2001, when she was still 17 years of age and again in New York and on a private Caribbean island. Flight logs show that the Duke and Virginia Roberts were in the places she alleges the sex happened. The Duke and Roberts were also photographed together with the Duke's arm round her waist though Andrew's friends have repeatedly claimed the photo is a fake and edited.  Roberts said she was pressured to have sex with the Duke and "wouldn't have dared object" and feared leaving, as she felt Epstein, through contacts, could have got her "killed or abducted". The allegations have, as of early 2015, not been tested in any court, but Roberts repeated allegations against the Duke and against Epstein in a sworn legal statement under penalty of perjury.

Buckingham Palace stated that "any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue", later repeating the denials. Lawyers for Roberts claim a request to the Duke for a statement under oath about the allegations was returned unanswered. When the Duke was asked about the allegations by a journalist at the World Economic Forum, he refused to answer the question about the allegation  and left the room.

Dershowitz said, "she's lied about me. She should not be believed about anyone else, It must be presumed that all her allegations against Prince Andrew were false as well.” ’Dershowitz initiated legal proceedings contesting the allegations and he and Epstein were suing the lawyers representing Roberts. In response Virginia Roberts stated she would not "be bullied back into silence.”

On the 7^th  of April, 2015, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the "sex allegations made against Prince Andrew in court papers filed in Florida were to be struck from the public record" .Marra made no ruling as to whether claims by Roberts were true or false, specifically stating that Roberts may later give evidence when the case comes to court.  I don’t know if I ever came to court.

In August 2019, court documents associated with a defamation case, involving Ghislaine Maxwell, revealed that a second girl, Joanna Sjoberg, gave evidence alleging that Prince Andrew had placed his hand on her breast while seated with Roberts in Epstein's mansion while posing for a photo with his Spitting Image puppet. Later that month, the Duke released a statement, emphasizing that "At no stage during the limited time I spent with Epstein did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction," though he expressed regret for meeting him in 2010 after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to sex crimes for the first time. By the end of August 2019, The New Republic magazine also published an email exchange between  John Brockman and Evgeny Morozov from September 2013 in which Brockman mentions seeing a British guy nicknamed "Andy" receiving foot massage from two young Russian women at Epstein's New York residence during his last visit to the mansion in 2010. He then added that he "realized that the recipient of Irina's foot massage was His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York

In November 2019, the BBC's Newsnight recorded an interview between Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis in which he recounted his friendship with Epstein for the first time. The interview was recorded in Buckingham Palace on 7he 14^th of November and was broadcast on yhe 16^th of  November. In the interview, Prince Andrew says he met Epstein in 1999 through British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who Prince Andrew knew since his university days, contradicts comments made by the Duke's private secretary in 2011, who claims the two met in "the early 1990s".He also said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, saying "the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful".

In the interview, he denied having sex with Virginia Roberts on the 10^th  of  March 2001, as she had accused, because he had been at home with his daughters, having taken his elder daughter Beatrice, to a party at Pizza Express in Woking. The Duke said that he had "no recollection of ever meeting" Roberts^.  and that he had "absolutely no memory" of a photograph taken of him with Roberts at Ghislaine Maxwell's house in London. He said he had investigations carried out to establish whether the photograph was faked, but the findings had been inconclusive. He also claimed that he had never been upstairs in Maxwell's house and questioned his attire, saying that the clothes he wore in the photograph were his "travelling clothes" that he did not wear while in the country. However, the Daily Mail revealed photographic evidence that the Duke wore similar clothing on a 2000 night out in London.

Prince Andrew also added that Robert’s claims about dancing with him at a club in London while he was sweating were false due to him temporarily losing the ability to sweat after an "adrenaline overdose" given to him  during the  Falklands War. "Several doctors" told The Times they did not believe this explanation, as adrenaline overdose typically causes excessive sweating in humans. It has been previously said that his mother, the Queen has not been seen sweating in public, raising the possibility of inherited anhidrosis although this was not the explanation given by the Duke.

Prince Andrew also admitted to staying in Epstein's mansion for three days in 2010, after Epstein’s conviction for sex offences against a minor, describing the location as "a convenient place to stay". However, he said that he "kicked him]self for" his decision to visit there "on a daily basis, because it was not something that was becoming of a member of the royal family", adding that he had "let the that family down".

He also said that he met Epstein for the sole purpose of breaking off any future relationship with him, saying that he met and stayed with the convicted sex offender as it was "the honourable and right thing to do", adding that one of his flaws was that he was "too honourable" a person. He also said that, if "push came to shove" (and after consultation with his legal teams), he would be willing to testify under oath regarding his associations with Epstein.

The interview was believed by Maitlis and Newsnight to have been approved by Queen Elizabeth II, although "palace insiders" speaking to The Sunday Telegraph disputed this. One of the Duke's official advisors resigned just prior to the interview being aired. Although the Duke was pleased with the outcome of the interview – reportedly giving Maitlis and the Newsnight team a tour of Buckingham Palace following the interview^, it received negative reactions from both the media and the public, both in and outside of the UK. It was described as a "car crash" and "nuclear explosion l and the worst public relations crisis for the royal family since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Experts and those with ties to Buckingham Palace said that the interview, its fallout and the abrupt suspension of the Duke's royal duties were unprecedented.

On  the eleventh   of  November 2019, the Students' Union of the University of Huddersfield passed a motion to lobby the Duke to resign as its chancellor, as London Metropolitan University was considering the Duke's role as its patron. On the  18^th of  November, accountancy firm KPMG announced it would not be renewing its sponsorship of Prince Andrew's entrepreneurial scheme Pitch@Palace, and on the 19^th of November, Standard Chartered also withdrew its support.

On the 20^th of November 2019, it was announced, through a statement from Buckingham Palace, that the Duke was suspending his public duties "for the foreseeable future". The decision, made with the consent of the Queen, was accompanied with the insistence that the Duke sympathised with Epstein's victims. Other working royals are expected to take over his commitments in the short term.

The Duke of York receives a £249,000 annuity from the Queen.  The Sunday Times reported in July 2008 that for "the Duke of York's public role.he last year received £436,000 to cover his expenses." On the 8^th of March 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported: "In 2010, the Prince spent £620,000 as a trade envoy, including £154,000 on hotels, food and hospitality and £465,000 in travel expenses.

I won’t go into all his other ventures which have been extensive since this article is about the accusations of him being a pedophile. 

The The charges of luring girls as young as 14 laid against Epstein, the 66-year-old businessman for sex purposes in his mansion in Manhattan and his estate in Palm Beach, Florida for sexual acts in exchange for money were mansions that Prince Andrews should not have only visited, he shouldn’t  have even lived in them. 

When he was asked about Epstein’s conduct re having sex with under-aged girls, the Duke said that he was appalled. If he was appalled, why did he continue to hang around Epstein when he knew that Epstein and other men were having sex with under aged girls?