Nearly a year after Jeffrey Epstein escaped justice through death, suspected partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell is locked up in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center on charges that include sex crimes against children. Maxwell, who knows where all of the bodies are buried, has nothing left to lose and everything to gain by spilling all the secrets, including those Prince Andrew may be harboring.
The queen’s favorite son is right to prepare for the worst — even for a possible U.S. prosecution.
As populist furor against the House of Windsor mounts, its most vocal critics from within have been remarkably mum on the matter. Yes, Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have emerged to excoriate the United Kingdom (and its queen, by logical extension) of “institutional racism” for its colonialist past. They have accused the palace of failing to “protect” the former actress during her pregnancy, whatever that means. But the Wokes of Sussex have curiously held their tongues when it comes to the single biggest problem facing the modern monarchy — the Duke of York and the highly credible rape allegations he faces.
Andrew is accused in civil court of molesting at least one child. He also maintained ties with Epstein after the billionaire pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor, which is normally referred to as statutory rape, in 2008. Furthermore, the prince’s horrific waffling on his defense of his ties to Epstein, as well as the queen’s public punishment of him, has only heightened the public consensus that Andrew is at the very least guilty of condoning his friend’s pedophilia.
But Meghan and Harry, always so desperate to land a tabloid headline remarking on their wokeness and opposition to the crown, are silent at the moment their voices could actually matter.
Think of it: A royal still protected by taxpayer money is possibly stonewalling a criminal investigation that implicates him personally. Maybe the average Briton can take that with a stiff upper lip, but should Harry and Meghan, who style themselves as some sort of conscientious voice in the royal wilderness? Their efforts to paint the royals as corrupt, sexist, and otherwise vile cannot be that serious if they cannot bring themselves to talk about the tragedy of Andrew.
Meghan’s legal team has smeared her in-laws under oath. Both members of the couple have publicly repudiated them. Sure, lambasting Andrew might be a bridge too far for those in direct succession for the throne, but Meghan and Harry are out. They already traded their crowns for invites to Hidden Hills cocktail parties. What could they possibly lose in excoriating Andrew publicly, especially given that Meghan has hardly hidden her dreams of becoming the next Michelle Obama?
The federal authorities will surely do what it takes to make Maxwell spill on all of her abhorrent associates. As part of that, the Justice Department ought to issue an official request for information from the Metropolitan Police’s protection command on Andrew’s activities on dates relevant to the Epstein inquiry. Vanity Fair reported that Maxwell, once pictured on British thrones with fellow credibly accused pedophile Kevin Spacey, visited Buckingham Palace as recently as a year ago. Is there any doubt that the federal authorities will be reconstructing a paper trail of Andrew’s whereabouts?
The Sussexes could, at any moment, bring to fruition their dreams of burning down the monarchy and enshrining themselves as global agents of goodness. They’ve already taken up the cheap, easy, low-hanging fruit by handwringing over colonialism and posturing over Black Lives Matter. But their silence on Andrew is truly deafening.
