Will the embarrassments never cease for Prince Andrew? Queen Elizabeth’s second son is already so disgraced, we’d think his reputation couldn’t possibly sink any further.
But a new book from Tina Brown (a journalist who previously penned the bestselling biography The Diana Chronicles) further reveals just how pathetic of a character Andrew truly is in his own scandals.
In an excerpt of The Palace Papers published in The Telegraph, Brown writes that the Duke of York’s association with “reprehensible foreign riff-raff went far beyond what was explicable or acceptable”: That “gun smuggler,” we now know, introduced him to the man who ended up getting him and his daughters involved in a fraud scandal… Related: The Queen Settled One Sexual Assault Lawsuit For Andrew — Is Another One Coming? Even among this crowd, the Duke of York’s most infamous associate was “billionaire pedophile” Jeffrey Epstein, whose friendship has gotten Andrew into the most trouble.
But Epstein apparently had nothing but disdain for the military vet, according to Brown: It doesn’t sound like it was too difficult to manipulate the father of two, as “years of enjoying unearned obeisance to his royal position allowed Andrew to bang on with a combination of overweening self-confidence and unchallenged ignorance.” OUCH!
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