00:02:32.420But he just behaves like a rich brat his whole life.
00:02:36.100Well, 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.
00:03:21.580Because 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.
00:03:42.720Well, Charles was out creating meaningful relationships and trying to do things with butterflies and architecture.
00:03:48.660And actually, now I look at the king and I think, this was a pretty rounded renaissance man, actually, compared to other people.
00:03:56.180Although we don't hear much about his sister and Edward too much.
00:04:01.060We certainly have heard about Andrew over the years.
00:04:03.560And 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.
00:05:26.740And here's Prince Andrew, and he's got the actual royal upbringing.
00:05:32.860And 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.
00:05:50.900Well, 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.
00:06:41.220Andrew needed to place himself in the center of that.
00:06:43.280Not 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.
00:06:53.320So he could continue to go to the parties, continue to meet the elite, continue to pretend that he was relevant because he's not.
00:07:02.960And I think to Epstein, he must have represented, oh, you know, the royals even invest with me.
00:07:07.600Look, 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.
00:07:24.320But probably to Epstein, it looked pretty cool.
00:07:27.220I mean, Ghislaine Maxwell, yeah, nobody really knew who her dad was after a while, but the royal family doesn't fade.
00:13:21.180Same 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.
00:13:35.440And 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.
00:13:47.280In 2025, Prince Andrew announces that he will relinquish his titles, including the Duke of York in a statement released by Buckingham Palace.
00:14:30.940And 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.
00:15:05.900But 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.
00:15:20.080So it's kind of, like, odd how art imitates life.
00:15:26.200The fact Virginia G. Free was 17 or claimed to be.
00:15:31.000Ku Stark played a 17-year-old in lingerie.
00:15:41.880Well, 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.
00:15:50.520So I think that Ku Stark came out and said, no, no, he's not that kind of man.
00:15:56.020But I don't buy it because they were wrapped up in all of the media at the time.
00:16:01.520This was before the internet and it was on the front page of every newspaper.
00:16:04.560And 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.
00:16:14.080And when she went away, part of the deal was, don't say anything bad about Andrew.
00:21:13.440And, in fact, he's going to have to do the same thing, and I think he has already.
00:21:16.760What 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.
00:21:29.560And 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.
00:21:39.120You just have to be one of my guys, one of the people out there closing the deals with me.
00:21:43.340And 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.