Andrew wonders how many people you've slept with

0:00 Ah Callaroga, Shark Media, hell Loo and welcome to Palace Intrigu. I'm your host, Mark Francis. The country singer claimed Andrew asked her how many people she had slept with. Allegation comes from Harriet James, formerly of the country band Pearl Tennessee. In her new memoir What Harriet Did, James says the encounter took place in two thousand and five when Royal Ascott was temporarily held at York Racecourse while Ascott underwent redevelopment. According to James, she and her husband, former racehorse trainer Ed James, were invited to a formal, black tied dinner where Andrew was staying with mutual friends. She writes, we were told we had to have dinner with Andrew. He was staying with friends of ours, and we were instructed to dress in black tie in honor of him being royal and all that. He arrived in jeans in a thick weave gray cardigan. According to her account, she was seated directly opposite Andrew when he opened the conversation with an unexpected question, how many people have you slept with?

1:01 She claims he asked. James said she immediately challenged him, you can't ask me that. How many people have you slept with? She writes that Andrew responded with what she described as a pompous gasp before replying, you certainly can't ask me that. According to Rider Online, a source claimed Andrew now sees the golf as offering opportunities that no longer exist at home. Andrew knows Britain is no longer a place where he can rebuild either his reputation or his sense of purpose. He feels every door has effectively been closed to him, whereas in parts of the golf he believes people are still interested in the relationships he has cultivated over decades and the international connections he can offer. In his view, he is treated there as someone with experience and influence, rather than simply being defined by the controversies that have overshadowed his life. Another insider claimed Andrew has accepted that there is no realistic path back in Britain.

1:52 He has become increasingly convinced that if he is ever going to regain any sense of purpose, relevance or personal respect, it will have to be outside that you can He's now almost one hundred percent ready to flee Britain for the Gulf. The report also claims Andrew is looking to his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie to help preserve the York families standing within the monarchy. One long time associate alleged Andrew speaks about Beatrice and Eugenie as if they are his front line troops and his battle to be welcomed back into the royal fold. Andrew sees Beatrice and Eugenias carrying the banner for him in his book. As long as they are still visible and active in royal circles, the York name stays present, and that keeps the door slightly open for him to inch back toward some kind of role in royal life one day. According to the report, Andrew has encouraged both daughters to maintain a visible presence at major royal and society events. He urged them to walk in as though they belonged there, to keep their chins up and make sure the cameras saw them. One source claimed he didn't want them melting into the background or behavior as if they had something to be ashamed of. Stories of future King William trimming the monarchy are surfacing again, according to Radar Online, has focused on the York's sisters after a report into royal residences revealed that King Charles pays the rent on Beatrice's apartment at Saint James Pallace and Eugenie's home Ivy Cottage at Kensington Palace, despite neither serving as a working royal.

3:15 One inside a claimed the revelation about the sisters housing arrangements has caused concern within their circle. The level of outrage has shaken Beatrice and Eugenie. The source said the girls are desperate to hold onto their royal connection. Being cast aside like their parents is their ultimate nightmare. The report notes that both sisters have successful careers in substantial private homes. Beatrice and her husband at Gwadom Mapelli Mozzi own a home in the Cotswolds, while Eugenie and Jack brooks Bank divide their time between Britain and a villa in Portugal. According to another source, Women believes the non working royals should no longer receive benefits linked to the monarchy. He thinks it's egregious for non working royals to be feasting off the royal pile like this. The Inside acclaimed Charles needs to trim the fat, and mixing Beatrice and Eugenie free Rent is a no brainer from now. However, the report suggests the sisters have little control over what decisions may come. They're powerless, the insider said, so the only option is to ride it out and hope for the best. More palsing just a moment, Andrew could once again find himself facing uncomfortable headlines over his past association with Jeffrey Epstein. That reported new documentary moves forward. Several major studios are said to be interested in producing a documentary based on the story of Sarah Callen, one of Jeffrey Epstein's longtime assistants. A source described as a senior production inside a told Radar Online. Interest in Sarah's story has intensified because she occupied a unique position inside Epstein's operation for many years. She is said to have maintained

4:46 meticulous records of appointments, visitors, and movements involving some of the most powerful people in his circle. Kellen, who worked for Epstein for roughly fifteen years, has denied knowingly participating in his crimes and has described herself as one of his victims. Reporting has revealed that Pizza Express carried out its own internal inquiry after Prince Andrew cited one of the chain's restaurants as part of his explanation during his twenty nineteen BBC Newsnight interview. During that interview with Emily Maitliss, Andrews said he had been at a Pizza Express restaurant in working on the day Virginia Geoffrey alleged they had sex. Andrew has consistently denied any wrongdoing. Explaining his whereabouts, Andrew said, I'd taken Beatrice to a Pizza Express and working. It's still been worked out by my staff who've looked at the diary and everything else. The Duchess was away, I think the United States somewhere, and we had a very simple rule at that stage. The children had one or the other of us for all most of the well as often as we could manage. So if one of us was out, the other was in, and then occasionally they would have both of us. And on this particular occasion, she was away and I was at home. According to the BBC, Pizza Express senior management considered Andrew's claim significant enough to warrant an internal investigation. The company reportedly searched for any surviving records from them and attempted to contact former staff members and local management connected to the working restaurant. However, the manager who had been running the restaurant in two thousand and one had since left the company and was not interviewed. The BBC reports that Pizza Express ultimately found no evidence confirming that Andrew had visited the restaurant, but

6:17 also found nothing to contradict his account. The Woking Alleway became one of the most memorable moments of the Newsnade interview, which was widely viewed as a public relations disaster for Andrew and ultimately led to his withdrawal from public royal duties. During the same interview, Andrew also rejected Virginia Jeffrey's account that he had been sweating heavily while dancing with her at London night club. Emily Meetler said she was very specific about that night. She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating. Andrew replied, there's a slave problem with the sweating. I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat, or I didn't sweat at the time. I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at and it was almost impossible for me to sweat.

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