The Fall of Prince Andrew： From Royal to Ruin
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Summary
Prince Andrew went from the Queen s favourite son to the monarchy s most toxic liability. Once parading as a war hero and jet-set playboy, he s now mired in scandal, financial strain and public disgrace. A fallen royal who embodies everything the royal family wishes we would forget.
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Prince Andrew went from the Queen's favourite son to the monarchy's most toxic liability.
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Once parading as a war hero and jet-set playboy, he's now mired in scandal, financial strain, and public disgrace.
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A fallen royal who embodies everything the firm wishes we would forget.
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On The Daily Council today, I'm joined by Jeudan.
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Why don't we take a break today from politics and screaming about that like we like to.
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And by the way, a couple of comments on recent videos with you, if I may.
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One of them was, pink shirt guy is my spirit animal.
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And another one just said, amen, amen, amen, pink shirt guy.
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I don't know what you're thinking showing up in this.
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By the way, don't forget to subscribe and tell a friend about what we're doing here on TPL.
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And this is one of the shows The Daily Council.
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Anyway, well, you know, because we're kind of new, Jeudan.
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You were telling me you're keeping an eye on this hurricane that's going on.
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They say it's going to be the biggest hurricane in history or something like that.
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I mean, I know that out there the liberal set is going to blame global warming
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while the conservative set will be filling sandbags trying to save their homes.
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You know, today we're talking about, as you probably heard in the intro,
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we're going to be talking about the most recent life and times of royal Prince Andrew.
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I don't even know if we're allowed to call him that anymore.
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And I was going through all the paperwork and the history on this guy.
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Nick, while I get in trouble, you might have to bleep this.
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This guy behaves in a manner that you would expect one of Donald Trump kids to behave.
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But he just behaves like a rich brat his whole life.
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Well, he, the thing about Andrew that makes me laugh is that he goes out there and he portrays this stoic sort of royal where when he's in public and the lights are on, he stands there and he, you know, his shoulders pinned back.
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I mean, he, he portrays that part of himself very well.
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But at the same time, in the background, he's a child.
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Now, I don't know if you know this little shady thing about Prince Andrew.
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He still has, he still keeps stuffies on his bed.
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Because some of the royal help have commented on the fact that Andrew still has teddy bears in his bedroom, which is absolutely bizarre to me.
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And, you know, in the 70s and 80s, he was even known as Randy.
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Well, Charles was out creating meaningful relationships and trying to do things with butterflies and architecture.
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And actually, now I look at the king and I think, this was a pretty rounded renaissance man, actually, compared to other people.
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Although we don't hear much about his sister and Edward too much.
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We certainly have heard about Andrew over the years.
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And the one thing I don't really, I'm never really able to put my finger on, is what he and his ex-wife do for a living, except go to parties.
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They should name a sponge called the Andrew, right?
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No, like, well, he can't use the word royal, that's for sure.
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He needs to get an apprenticeship as a plumber and go to work like the rest of the people.
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Because right now, he's sitting there with this sense of entitlement that never, ever leaves him.
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He sits there and goes, well, you're going to kick me out of my house that I haven't paid rent on?
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His finances, and we'll get to this a bit later.
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What he was doing with Epstein in the first place, obviously, was driven by money.
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Here's the thing that I've thought about consistently about Epstein.
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All he did was luxury stuff with this cash, right?
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She grows up this wild lifestyle, daughter of a media magnate.
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And here's Prince Andrew, and he's got the actual royal upbringing.
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And as these finances in their life dwindle and that luxury slips into the sunset, you can see them clawing at just about anything to stay in that jet set lifestyle, including being part of this horrible operation of human trafficking.
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Well, I think the thing about someone like Andrew is he became overshadowed by his brother Charles and then by William and Harry and Diana and everybody else.
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It was okay for Edward to disappear and just go live his life quietly as he has.
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And for people that actually know anything about fame at all, fame is fleeting.
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And those that find their fame fleeting will scratch and claw and kill and do whatever it takes to keep themselves in those circles.
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And Epstein was the center of a very unique circle.
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Epstein had way more contacts, I'm sure, than Andrew did.
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Andrew needed to place himself in the center of that.
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Not just because Andrew is probably a debauched individual, but he wanted to make sure that Epstein could introduce him to that person or that person or that person.
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So he could continue to go to the parties, continue to meet the elite, continue to pretend that he was relevant because he's not.
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And I think to Epstein, he must have represented, oh, you know, the royals even invest with me.
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Look, Prince Andrew is a friend of mine, not really understanding that, you know, Prince Andrew is a sponge and that, you know, there is no inherent value in his financial expertise, for example, or, you know, actually his depth of wealth in backing anything.
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But probably to Epstein, it looked pretty cool.
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I mean, Ghislaine Maxwell, yeah, nobody really knew who her dad was after a while, but the royal family doesn't fade.
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No, but the royal family is now becoming more and more irrelevant.
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If you look at the royal family, what do they offer?
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They've got this, what do you call it, the palace there.
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Why do we have a queen of Canada or a king of Canada?
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By the way, if we do decide to get a king or queen of Canada.
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Prince Trudeau has been laid off and I guess King Carney is what's left.
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Well, King, again, King Carney connected to the royals, connected to London, connected
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Like, it's, this is such a tangled, disgusting.
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Do you predict Andrew making his way to Canada eventually to hide out and spend the rest of
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You know, actually, I wouldn't put it past him because he's not wanted in Great Britain.
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Someone that's going to protect him where he has some kind of immunity.
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He meets Jeffrey Epstein in 1999 and he meets, he actually meets him through Ghislaine Maxwell,
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In 2000, Epstein and Maxwell attend a party at Windsor Castle hosted by Queen Elizabeth at
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Don't know if they really stayed in touch through all that with the development of Epstein in
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20, 2001, Virginia Jeffrey, née Roberts, alleges that at 17, she was trafficked by Epstein and
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Maxwell to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, starting with an initial encounter
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In December of 2010, Prince Andrew stays at Epstein's mansion for three days after the conviction
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And in February 2011, an email from Prince Andrew to Epstein services stating, we are in
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And then he basically he he goes on with a Newsnight interview statement where he claimed
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to have ended the relationship with Epstein in 2010.
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In 2019, he gives a BBC Newsnight interview publicly renouncing his dealings with Epstein for the
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He denies having sex with an underage minor and he was home with his daughters after attending
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Now, that brings us to this point, the non-sweaty Prince.
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And Nick, I don't know if we can take a look at some of that interview, but boy, oh boy,
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Do I regret the fact that he has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming?
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So if he was alleging something about Pizzagate, he'd be better to shut his mouth.
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But this interview would have been better avoided entirely for his own image.
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And instead, he's out there talking about how in the Falkland Islands.
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You see, I lost that ability in the Falkland Islands on a mission.
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Now, I took a look at what this guy's missions were.
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Well, I mean, I guess he was a naval officer in the helicopter division.
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And his mission was to do routine work, as many other soldiers would do.
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Nothing that seems so extreme in his service that he would no longer be able to produce sweat.
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Meanwhile, in that interview, he did look a little clammy.
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In 2019, Buckingham Palace announces that Andrew is suspending his public duties for the foreseeable future.
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But on the 24th, the palace confirms that Andrew is to step down from all 230 of his patronages.
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2020, the Home Office recommends a major downgrade of security for Andrew, ending his round-the-clock armed police protection.
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Meanwhile, people are being offed all around this Epstein thing.
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Don't you think he would have needed more security and not less?
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They're only interested in maintaining the monarchy.
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They'll follow a limo with a casket in and his daughters will cry.
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We'll get back to living normal, clean lives without Andrew in the mix.
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And England will go, well, good riddance to him.
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He had it coming would have been the response probably.
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Same year, January 2020, the U.S. attorney, Jeffrey Berman, he stated that Prince Andrew had provided zero cooperation with federal prosecutors and the FBI regarding the ongoing investigation.
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And by 2022, in January, he stripped of all his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, by the Queen herself following sexual assault lawsuit.
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In 2025, Prince Andrew announces that he will relinquish his titles, including the Duke of York in a statement released by Buckingham Palace.
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Now, I guess we all knew in the 70s and 80s, I remember him being called Randy Andy.
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Number one, if you'll recall, Andrew went to a private school out near Peter Rowe, Ontario.
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And actually, Andrew was there while my friend was at Lakefield.
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And if you'll recall, there was the skinny dipping incident where Andrew got caught in photos naked jumping into the lake with all the boys from the rugby team or whatever it was.
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Then the Randy Andy thing started because he began dating a woman by the name of Ku Stark.
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She was in some movie called Emily or The Adventures of or The Life of.
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But I recall the plot, interestingly enough, was about a 17-year-old girl who was forced to have sex with an older, I believe, aristocratic man.
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So it's kind of, like, odd how art imitates life.
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The fact Virginia G. Free was 17 or claimed to be.
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Well, I think that from what I recall and what I've read over the years, because I, you know, the odd time you just go online, you're like, you just sort of.
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So I think that Ku Stark came out and said, no, no, he's not that kind of man.
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But I don't buy it because they were wrapped up in all of the media at the time.
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This was before the internet and it was on the front page of every newspaper.
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And maybe the royal family wanted Ku Stark to go away, and maybe the royal family paid Ku Stark a tidy sum of money to go away.
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And when she went away, part of the deal was, don't say anything bad about Andrew.
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So some photos have surfaced over the years of them standing next to one another, but that's really about it.
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I just find it really ironic that he was drawn to an actress who played a 17-year-old girl.
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And then he was convicted or has been accused, not convicted, but he has been sued and that has been, that has been resolved.
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And so it's a similar, it's like art, life mimicking art.
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So Ku Stark got a payout, Virginia Jufri got a payout of $11 million, I think, which is bizarre to me because why on earth?
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Look, if somebody accuses me of something that I didn't do, especially something like that, I'm fighting tooth and nail,
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especially if I have that kind of money, if I have his kind of money, if I've got f*** you money.
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If I've got that kind of money, I'm not, I'm not saying I did it.
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This guy is just his private security costs around 3 million pounds a year.
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His last means of income at the moment seemed to be his Navy pension, which is 20,000 pounds per year.
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He has a net worth of an estimated 3 to 5 million pounds.
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That means next year his security detail will bankrupt him.
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He doesn't have a home because he has a lease on a home for 75 years that he pays a peppercorn for.
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Although, who knows what Charles will hold you to.
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But having said that, he'll likely get evicted from Royal Lodge.
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So what happens, do you think, to the bankrupt prince?
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I don't think the bankrupt prince is going to live very long.
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I think he's too much of a liability on the world stage.
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I mean, I'm pretty sure Prince William and Kate want nothing to do with him.
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Well, they've actually said, you know, you should leave Royal Lodge.
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So far, that's the best financial solution for him.
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Or maybe they should put him on that TV series 90 Days In and see how he lasts.
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That would probably be the best thing for him, because he bloody well deserves it.
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he's trying to negotiate his way out of the cottage that he lives in on the grounds.
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And then he wants another place for Sarah, because they still live together.
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I think at very best, Prince Charles solves his financial woes between now and his retirement years.
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Maybe to a commonwealth country, a Caribbean location where he can be really hemmed in by the royal family and by a lot of legal rules.
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Well, with a guy like him, though, because he's such an infant, I don't know that they'll be able to hold him to anything.
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No, Zidane, they can't just put down Prince Andrew.
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You can't just put down a loved one in the family.
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I think they should drive Prince Andrew to the farm, right?
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Well, it's a possibility, depending on how far he's gone down the rabbit hole.
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But this financial situation, I point this out because he and his ex-wife there.
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So, essentially, they've always had financial issues.
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And, in fact, he's going to have to do the same thing, and I think he has already.
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What I'm thinking is that the financial stress and having to go to his brother and having to scrap and it was getting tougher to sponge, I think that's the door that opens to Jeffrey Epstein.
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And I think he somehow sees that desperation in the prince and says to him, you know, I can throw you a job, a high-paying job every year that will offset the cost of this.
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You just have to be one of my guys, one of the people out there closing the deals with me.
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And I think we're going to find out that he did open a lot of those doors through his royal connections and through his ability to be a head of state visiting another head of state.
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I think the royal family wants him gone, and I think out of desperation, Andrew is going to go back and rely on the Epstein circle.
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There's still a lot of powerful people in the center of that circle.
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If Epstein's gone, then another Epstein's going to pop up.
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That's what everybody should be asking themselves.
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The royals know too much, but when I say the royals, I mean Charles and Camilla and the next king.
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I forget her only because she's so like a...
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So having said that, having said that, I often forget, because she's very low-key, Camilla.
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She's not out there as an attention grabber.
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Hey, can you do me a favor, please, and check that out for me, Kristoff?
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Actually, I hate to even bring it back around on this front, but as long as...
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Nick, you had applause you wanted to put in there?
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But yeah, no, I never see her as a big problem in the royal family, because like you
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You never hear about them, except when something good is going on.
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But his whole life, I think Andrew's been in this situation where he makes bad decisions,
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and the British people are not surprised that he's...
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Like, if you eat bad food, number two is really a horrible thing to have happen.
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When you're number two in the royal family, you are...
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He's kind of been in the shadows his whole life, and doing the best that he can to be
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...at any moment he can, when his brother's there, or his mother was there, keeping a
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And Andrew knew, you know what, I'm better looking than Charles.
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He's got the big ears, and the large head, and the big nose, and jowls.
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And I'm a, I look better in a uniform, and, oh, you know what, I date better looking women
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than he does, and I'm a philanderer, and I'm, you know, like, he was always in the media.
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I'll be honest with you, I never thought that I'd sit and talk about the royal family
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Okay, look, before we get out of here, though, speaking of, speaking of magic attention getters,
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have you seen the relationship going on right now?
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Okay, I wanted to know what your opinion was of this.
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He's divorced, he's in a new world, he's retired from a position of power.
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Do you think that Katy Perry is going to last very long with him?
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When every second word out of his mouth is um or ah, and he's always going to be trying
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to teach her a lesson when she has more money than he does?
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It's bringing him back into the media for a reason.
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Nick, maybe I'm wrong, but that sounded to me like Zidane actually was the PR firm here.
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The next thing you know, the next photo is them on a yacht.
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And a couple of weeks later, they're on a yacht, and he's,
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He should be laying low based on some of the charges I see leveled against him by Canadians right now.
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He always professes to be this wise sort of guy.
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But having said that, he's now out on the speaking circuit.
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Can you raise my rate just a little bit and see if we can get any takers on that?
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Like, even if I have to do less, for more it would be better.
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What does he have to say that's of relevance to anyone in the universe?
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Well, he's a big guy on global warming, you see.
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Could you see him and Elon Musk sharing a stage in a debate?
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Don't forget, he and his family used water boxes at that time.
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I don't know if you recall, but his family was using water boxes.
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And that was so that they could drink water from boxes.
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You think that she's part of his speaking circuit price?
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And by the way, if you're smart, you'll try to book both of them for your next event.
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You're not standing on the bow of a boat playing grab ass with Katy Perry in a perfect profile
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so that both of you can be seen, you know, your hand on her ass, your perfect profile.
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You think that they're actually going to do that out of the blue?
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A little bit of that in your marriage, by the way, I don't think it would hurt.
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So having said that, I do believe that it might be a real relationship.
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When he's taking a photo and posing, he looks unnatural in everything.
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You watch him in the media and the way that he tilts his head, the way he furrows his brow and stuff like that.
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Watch him at the Katy Perry concert where they got that one shot of him sort of in the front row off to the side.
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And you can see he's got this look on his face.
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Like he knows the effing cameras right there on side stage.
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On that note, Nick, you have any thoughts on this, man?
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I saw you bubbling up earlier today with tee hees and laughter over there.
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Well, guys, I have to disagree with both of you.
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And she's dating Justin Trudeau, who's the greatest prime minister of all time.
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Nick, you fill me with the urge to defecate.
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You just have Trudeau derangement syndrome.
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I want to, you know, I do have one criticism about this pairing is that it's just not diverse
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Can we throw a, can we throw a, let's get Lizzo in there.
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Well, look, I think we did enough damage on the Daily Cancel.
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I'm sorry about today's show, but there'll be a better one tomorrow.