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Giving the monarchy a bad name. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, visits the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital to open the new Stanmore Building, in London on March 21, 2019.Photo by David Mirzoeff /Pool via REUTERS
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Disgraced Prince Andrew is facing a new onslaught of bad press as a new documentary about his relationship with pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein airs Thursday night.
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Royal experts weigh in on the doc, describing the 62-year-old heirhead “an idiot”, a “spoiled brat” and a “narcissist” and the intellectual “runt of the litter”.
He has effectively been exiled from royal life since he paid out nearly $20 million to former Epstein sex slave Virginia Roberts who claimed she had underage sex with Andrew.
The documentary, Prince Andrew: Banished, airs on U.S. channel Peacock. Here are some highlights:
Buddy, buddy. Andrew stuck by convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, right.Photo by SCREENSHOT /NEW YORK POST
DISGRACE
The doc examines how the Puke of York’s antics “brought scandal and disgrace” on the Royal family. Citing Andrew’s “privilege, jealousy, desire, and greed” as the reason for his fall from grace. As a result, he courted villains like Epstein and his paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell, along with a coterie of gun runners, oligarchs and despots as friends.
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Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in a photo Giuffre says was taken in March 2001.Photo by VIRGINIA ROBERTS /FACEBOOK
QUOTES – ‘AN IDIOT’
Press secretary Dickie Arbiter: “The problem is, the man’s an idiot. There’s always one runt of the litter, and Andrew was it.”
Royal author Phil Dampier: “He’s never smoked or taken drugs or drunk alcohol but his one big thing is sex.”
Journalist Helen Kirwan-Taylor: “The talk of the dinner parties was he couldn’t keep his trousers closed.”
Jeffrey Epstein, from left, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew are pictured in file photos.Photo by File photos /Getty Images
YOU DECIDE
Why pay out $20 million if you did nothing wrong? After the settlement, Andrew was stripped of his royal patronage and honorary military titles. Legendary reporter Annette Witheridge said Andrew’s downward spiral was “a lifetime in the making”.
In this file photo taken Sept. 7, 2019, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, attends a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bruges in Bruges.Photo by JOHN THYS /AFP via Getty Images
THE BULLY
One former Royal protection officer described the prince as a “horrible bully” who kept a “revolving door of women” coming into his apartment at Buckingham Palace. “He’s just a horrible person,” Paul Page said, recalling once when a woman was denied entry to the palace. “He shouted at the top of his voice: ‘You listen to me, you fat, lardy-a— c—. If you don’t let my guest in, I’m going to come down there.'”
All of the Teddy Bears on Prince Andrews bed had to be just right. Or else he would freak.
TEDDY
Page found 50 to 60 teddy bears on Andrew’s bed along with a laminated picture that showed how the petulant prince liked them arranged.
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