The British press salivates at the chance to excoriate Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, for anything ranging from closing a car door to holding her baby belly. And the actual free press across the pond has speculated wildly over whether the source of the “rural rivalry” between Kate Middleton and former friend Rose Hanbury is the result of an affair between Prince William and the latter.
But the true scandal has sat under our noses all along. With registered sex offender and indicted sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein back in chains and under the spotlight, the true villain of the House of Windsor may be revealed at last.
Prince Andrew is most famous stateside for his tumultuous marriage to and divorce from Sarah Ferguson. But his most scandalous relationship is his tie to Epstein. The disgraced financier’s Rolodex included half of the most powerful men in the world, and yes, only a select few have been accused of pedophilic proclivities under the penalty of perjury. But Andrew is a part of that club.
The allegations against Prince Andrew run back to at least 2001, though they didn’t make it to the press until nearly a decade after that and to publication some time later still. Virginia Roberts, who has photographs and flight logs proving she flew Epstein’s “Lolita Express” and hung out with Andrew while underage, has spent around a decade alleging that among his other crimes, Epstein flew her out to London to sexually service the prince and other members of the British elite for tens of thousands of dollars. Photographed beside one such encounter between Roberts and Andrew is Clinton crony and Epstein collaborator, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Predictably, both the prince and Buckingham Palace have categorically denied the allegations made by Roberts under penalty of perjury. The evidence points to the contrary.
For starters, the flight logs confirm that Roberts was at the same location as Prince Andrew as when she claimed to be. For another, the entire British government has repeatedly helped Andrew dodge questioning from the U.S. government ever since. Curiously enough, Andrew seems never to have returned to American soil. But around a month ago, he met with the one person who likely could have made that possible up until this week: the president.
Epstein faced his first public allegations in 2006. He pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14 in 2008. Prince Andrew didn’t end his friendship with Epstein at that time.
No doubt the palace will eagerly await the next time Meghan hires a new nanny or breathes incorrectly. But if the Epstein case is about to explode in the way it deserves, Prince Andrew and his alleged crimes will take the center stage they deserve.
