Andrew’s Epstein Cover Story Collapses as Palace Emails and Photos Emerge

0:03 Callarogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome through Pallas Intrigue. I am your host, Mark Francis. Newly released documents from the US Department of Justice reveal further details about the relationship between Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including emails exchanged well after Andrew had publicly claimed he had ended contact. The documents include correspondence from twenty ten, after Epstein had been released from house arrest following his guilty plead to child sex offenses. In an email dated September twenty nine, twenty ten, Epstein told Andrew he was in London and suggested they meet, saying they need private time.

0:45 Andrew replied that he was having lunch with a Saudi Prinson, a secret intelligence firm, before adding we could have dinner at Buckingham Palason lots of privacy. In a follow up message, Andrew wrote, delighted for you to come here to b P Come with whomember and I'll be here free from sixteen hundred dish to twenty hundred bps, understood to refer to budging in ballas. The newly released material also includes an email exchange from twenty ten, in which Epstein offered to introduce Andrew to a twenty six year old Russian woman, whom he described as clever and beautiful. In December twenty ten, Epstein told Andrew he had a female friend he thought the Duke would enjoy a meeting. Andrew replied that he was in Geneva but would be delighted to see her, and asked what information about himself had been shared. Epstein responded, She's twenty six, Russian, clever, beautiful, trustworthy. He added that he had given her Andrew's email address. Additional correspondence shows Andrew and Epstein exchanging messages on Christmas Day twenty ten, including family photographs. After a December twenty ten trip to New York, which Andrew later described publicly as an effort to formally and unequivocally end the relationship, he wrote to Epstein, it was great to spend some time with my US family.

1:54 Looking forward to joining you all again soon. The email trail continues into twenty eleven. In February twenty eleven, Andrew wrote to Epstein, this week is all about me, adding time to put something back into me before the rest of the world starts sucking it out in all their greed and demands. The message was sent at a time when Andrew appeared to be thanking Epstein for help resolving an issue involving unpaid wages linked to his ex wife, Sarah Ferguson. In the same exchange, Andrew also referred to entering his annual retreat for the next eight days. The timing places the email more than a year after Andrew had said he had cut off contact with Epstein, raising further questions about the accuracy of those claims. The emails also include discussions that appeared to touch on financial matters.

2:38 In July twenty ten, Epstein referred to contacts who were super flush with cash, mentioning someone with twenty billion dollars and hungry for deals. Andrew replied by referencing potential purchases from government of up to three point eight billion each. In another exchange, Andrew wrote, so long as they delegate any responsibility to invest, then there are no problems. The released documents also contain correspondence involving Sarah Ferguson. In two thousand and nine, she described Epstein as the brother I have always wished for, and later wrote I urgently need twenty thousand pounds for rent today. The landlord has threatened to go to the newspapers if I don't pay any brain waves. That amount equates to approximately twenty six thousand dollars.

3:22 Epstein later claimed he had helped her financially for fifteen years. One of the files in the release also includes a photograph showing Andrew clothed on all fours over a woman lying on the floor. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing. Other emails showed sustained efforts by US authorities to secure Andrew's cooperation with their investigation into Epstein. In February twenty twenty, an investigation team wrote to Andrew's lawyers, please advise as to whether Prince Andrew will agree to be interviewed and if so, when such interview will take place. Despite Andrew's public statements expressing willingness to assist, no interview to place. Legal correspondents and the COVID nineteen pandemic were cited as contributing factors. Andrew was stripped of his royal titles last year and is in the process of leaving Royal Lodge and Windsor Buckingham Palaces. Said he is no longer a working royal, Andrew, who has consistently denied any criminal behavior more palace. In just a moment in The Express, Jasmine Carey writes, while this newly released photograph does not suggest any wrongdoing from Andrew, who has always denied allegations regarding his friendship with the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, it is not a good look. Even if he wasn't a member of the royal family, a photograph like that would be enough to make anyone cringe. So who knows what King Charles is thinking this morning as he wakes up to see such a photograph of his younger brother. While it could be argued that Andrew has already been punished

4:53 enough for similar scandals, losing his Royal Lodge, home and royal titles, surely it's now time for King Charles to wipe the slate with him completely. I mean, it's not a good look for the monarch to pay for his brother's new home and renovations when he's appearing in photographs like this, is it? I would go as far as to say Andrew should now be banished from royal life completely. No perks had come from being the king's brother, no protection of a home on the royal estate, and definitely no allowance if this is something he is getting to me, I just don't think there is any adequate justification for the photograph. Of course it does not actively imply wrongdoing. But what is a man, a prince at the time doing being photographed on all fours over a woman splayed on the floor like that? What even is the context?

5:36 Because I can't see a twister mat underneath him, which to me would be the only reason why I'd ever expect to see someone publicly in that position over someone else. For Sky News, Rhiannon Mills writes, We've known for some time about the closeness between the Yorks and Jeffrey Epstein, but if genuine, these emails give a new level of insight about their interactions with the convicted pedophile, what they share with him, and just how much they saw him as a friend and close confidante. From the emails, we can see he was apparently welcomed into the fold and the inner sanctum of their palace life. From the discussions about him lending them money and the exchanges about Andrew being set up with women, you can see he was clearly trusted with their innermost secrets. It is the obsequious turne with which they write to him which will inevitably anger the victims. It feels like Andrew and Sarah were dependent on him, whether for money or contacts. It appeers Epstein had made it that way, made himself invaluable to them, which chimes with Sarah Ferguson's claim last year that she had to appear loyal because he was blackmailing her. But away from what's written in the emails, it's when they were written that is also exposing. Just look at the dates, and they appeared to challenge Andrew and Sarah's recollections of when they apparently tried to cut ties with Epstein. It has to be pointed out that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson are inevitably at the top of everyone's search list.

6:54 It means that we are inevitably going to report more on documents related to them, and with other high profile in individuals also linked to Epstein, they will no doubt find that unfair. Perhaps the strongest opinion came from our royal inside a deep crown who writes What strikes me most forcefully is not the scandal itself, but the accumulation of evidence that the monarchy's central defenses have been comprehensively breached. These people, Epstein and Maxwell were photographed at Sandringham, at Royal ascot hunting at Balmoral. Maxwell attended Princess Beatrice's eighteenth birthday celebration at Royal Lodge. These are not public spaces. These are the families sanctuaries, their most intimate redoubts. Someone always knew, security services knew, private secretaries knew. Yet the machinery of monarchy designed to protect the crown instead protected Andrew's access to his proclivities. That is not an accident of poor judgment, That is institutional rot. Charles has stripped Andrew of his titles, evicted him from Royal Lodge, and relegated him to the internal exile on the Sandringham estate.

7:57 But Andrew remains eighth in line to the throne bease, as removing him requires an act of Parliament. Charles could request such legislation, he will not, because what require the monarch to formally acknowledge that one of its own is unfit for the throne. This is not accountability. This is damage control masquerading its principle. William, however, is a different proposition entirely. When he ascends to the throne. I expect swift action Andrew's exclusion from the succession, formalized through parliamentary action or financial support, severed in complete cooperation with any ongoing investigations. William understands what his father apparently does not. The monarchy's survival depends on its ability to command moral authority.

8:38 The difference between Charles and William can be summarized thus, Charles believes in managing problems. William believes in eliminating them. The monarchy exists by consent. That consent is not automatic, it is not guaranteed, and it's not inexhaustible. Every new revelation about Andrew depletes the reservoir a public good will just a bit more. Charles's demonstrates that he lacks the capacity for the accountability required. One can only hope William possesses it, and that he inherits a throne still worth the effort of saving. And there you have it. Like to email us who addresses the palaceintric at gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify Apple or the app of your choice and check us out on Facebook, Instagram. I am Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is palace intrigue and good terms.