[News] Prince Andrew interviewed about allegations

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I'm pretty confident that a member of the Royal Family who settled out of court in a case where he was accused of having sex with a trafficking victim is not going to be shaking hands with Joe Pasquale at any time in my lifetime.

Potentially a tough crowd

 

[clapham_gull]

As we, the tax payer are paying for this, Shirley we should be advised of the amount?

I very much doubt it. The family have immense personal wealth. Some of us will hear about it in 30 years.

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[Badger]

it seems if you’ve got enough money you can what you want.

Especially when it comes from unearnt, publicly funded wealth.

 

[clapham_gull]

Potentially a tough crowd

It's what made Joe Pasquale the comedian he is today.

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[Paulie Gualtieri]

I very much doubt it. The family have immense personal wealth. Some of us will hear about it in 30 years.

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Appropriately diarised!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

It's what made Joe Pasquale the comedian he is today.

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Maybe an opportunity for Jimmy Carr to do a royal special, to get the public back on side?

 

[portlock seagull]

Especially when it comes from unearnt, publicly funded wealth.

Which has been the way for centuries and Royals are given by Parliament who we vote for.

 

[pb21]

I really hope they do. I want to hear someone saying "I was there (London, Epstein's island or wherever) and I saw them together". That is all it needs to blow him out of the water.

Given how messy that size a tin of spilled beans would make, I'm sure there are plenty of precautions in place to prevent any spillage.

 

[Bry Nylon]

$7.5m is the figure I’ve heard being suggested as the donation

 

[golddene]

$7.5m is the figure I’ve heard being suggested as the donation

I heard reported earlier between 10 to 20m that’s one very expensive indiscretion !

 

[peterward]

I heard reported earlier between 10 to 20m that’s one very expensive indiscretion !

Quite a lot of money to give away for a woman he claimed "I have no recollection of her" in the Emily Maitless interview

 

[clapham_gull]

I heard reported earlier between 10 to 20m that’s one very expensive indiscretion !

$7.5m is the figure I’ve heard being suggested as the donation

The Telegraph have reported in the last hour that the figure "exceeds" £12 million. and that the Queen has helped to pay.

As Andrew apparently hasn't got a pot to piss in (which is why he went back to see Epstein and that's public record) it's anyone's guess where the rest has come from. I'd imagine he has rich friends though.

They've also reported that 99% of civil cases in the USA are settled out of court.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

This is a good day for the royal family.

They can start to put this behind them.

Whether it's a good day for justice is a harder one to answer

 

[Bry Nylon]

The Telegraph have reported in the last hour that the figure "exceeds" £12 million.

They've also reported that 99% of civil cases in the USA are settled out of court.

In that case, perhaps the figure I heard was $17.5m. It was on Channel 4 News and maybe I misheard as I was scrolling through NSC at the time. (Lucky for Andrew I'm not his lawyer, I guess).

 

[clapham_gull]

This is a good day for the royal family.

They can start to put this behind them.

Whether it's a good day for justice is a harder one to answer

It's a civil case, 99% of which are settled out of court in the USA I've just learnt.

Retrospectively it was also going to go like this, The Royal Family now having to sell off a few spoons and probably cut down on swan sandwiches for a few months.

But I agree with you on the justice front, but there was no way in hell the Royal Family were going to allow the case to go ahead.

It's one of those moments they stop being a family and will happily "throw one under a bus" to protect the institution.

Undeniably that was more important to them face some exposure to get to truth either way. As a nation we should be appalled but inevitably sympathy will be directed towards the institution itself. Bonkers.

I try not to think about them because the whole thing has no place in a modern democracy. There will always be an unelected head of state in my lifetime, but I'd hope that now is the time to scale the whole thing back.

It's so utterly dysfunctional that a the son of a billionaire Monarch living in a palace has to go cap in hand to an American wrong'un to pay off his ex-wife's debts of just £15,000 because she made the tragic mistake of getting divorced and was completely cut off.

If this was the Government (or a private business) you'd look at the top to find blame on how this whole mess was allowed to happen in the first place, or how other obvious behaviours weren't stopped before they got out of hand.

Oddly in this country the "head of the firm" is never to blame. I know she is very elderly and on a human level should be respected of course.

But she hasn't always been. History should judge her as making some huge mistakes regarding the "management" of the "firm", but it won't.

 

[crodonilson]

Rumours rife the Duke of York is plotting a sensational return to public life in the future. Think he will need to lie low for a while and enjoy his very generous pension, but would expect he will be seen around for some occasions for Her Majesty The Queens jubilee celebrations.

 

[lawros left foot]

It’s all going to be okay.

On theHonourable Kirstie Allsopp,daughter of the 6th Baron Hindlip,s advice he has cancelled his Netflix account and stopped buying Starbucks Coffee.

He should have it paid off in a couple of years.

 

[nicko31]

it seems if you’ve got enough money you can what you want.

In this country if you have enough money and / or influence you are above the law, over and over again...

 

[Lenny Rider]

Shades of Michael Jackson, do innocent people really pay out these kind of sums?

However I do have a small degree of sympathy for Andrew, right from birth they have to do what’s right for the establishment rather than what’s right for him as a person.

Charles was eventually allowed to marry the woman he truly loved, but not before the shit storm he had with Diana.

Many say Andrew’s true love was Koo Stark but in the early to mid 80’s, I wonder if things might have turned out differently if he was allowed to go with his heart rather than what the establishment decreed?

 

[dejavuatbtn]

I was wondering just how he is going to support victims of such abuse, as if any victim would want anything to do with him.