Meghan’s “DS” Bag & the newest Andrew Fallout

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Palace Intrigue. I'm your host, Mark Francis. Our main story today is quite serious and for adult years only, so we'll do a fluff story first to give you a chance to hit stop if you choose. Meghan Michael has once again proven that even her luggage carries a message. The Duchess of Sussex was seen in Washington, d C. With a Navy travel bag monogrammed with the initials DS, a subtle nod to her royal title. Sources a Queen Elizabeth the seconds grave at Saint George's Chapel reported hearing what sounded like someone rolling over in their grave.

0:50 In a new Instagram reel, Meghan offered followers a behind the scenes look at her whirlwind twenty four hour trip to the Capitol for Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. The clip opened with shots of the Washington Monument before revealing the tote in question. Blue and white lettering for Duchess of Sussex's luggage rolled down a hallway. Our royal inside of deep Crown was the one who sent this to us, adding one would think that after all the hand ringing about the unbearable burden of royal life. After the tearful pronouncements about wanting privacy and normalcy, that monogramming one's luggage with DS might strike even the most tone deaf as rather rich. But here we are what galls is the sheer audacity of it all. We're meant to believe that she fled this toxic institution, yet she clings to its nomenclature like a life raft, whenever it suits her commercial interests.

1:44 The video then followed Meghan through her busy day behind the scenes at the summit, speaking on stage about women in business, toasting with champagne, and chatting with flight crew in a plain cockpit. She captioned the post love being surrounded by strong women supporting each other. Thanks to Fortune, MPW, my teen DC and my sweet friends for the twenty four hours of impact and fun. Speaking to people earlier this year, Megan said that the Sussex name has come to symbolize her family's bond. It's our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn't recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children, she said. I love that that is something that Archie, Lily h and I all have together. It means a lot to me.

2:24 At the DC Summit, the Duchess reflected on her work as a female founder. As women, we support each other. We are not simply supporting each other's lives, we are supporting each other's legacies. She said. When I'm supporting or investing in another female founder, I am investing in what she is going to do for the culture, for her business, and the legacy she's going to leave. And now for that serious story. Virginia Geoffrey, the woman whose allegations helped bring down Jeffrey Epstein's criminal network, has detailed her story in a posthumous memoir, Nobody's Girl, a memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice. In the book, Jeffer remembers the day at sixteen when she was recruited from Mara Lago by what she calls an apex predator. She describes being spotted by Gallaine Maxwell, who says she stopped her car and followed her into the resort spa. Geoffrey recalls Maxwell's first words, are you interested in massage? How wonderful?

3:19 From there, Jeffrey writes her life changed forever. She says she was invited to meet Maxwell's wealthy friend Jeffrey Epstein, and that this encounter began what she calls a nightmare. Dressed up as opportunity, Epstein and Maxwell, she writes, broke down my defenses step by a practiced step. Geoffrey recalls Epstein asking her do you have siblings? Where do you go to high school? Do you take birth control? She says, every time I felt a twinge of discomfort, one glance at Maxwell told me I was overreacting. Over time, Jeffrey claims Epstein and Maxwell used manipulation, money, and threats to control her, even warning you must never tell us soul what goes on in this house. And I own the Palm Beach Police Department, so they won't do anything about it.

4:02 She writes that she was lent out to eight number of Epstein's powerful associates, including politicians, academics, and businessmen, and that Maxwell functioned as a party planner, scheduling and organizing the endless parade of girls she recruited to have sex with him. In one of the memoirs most explosive passages, Geoffrey writes of being trafficked to Prince Andrew. She says that Maxwell told her one morning, get out of bed, sleepy head, just like Cinderella, You're going to meet a handsome prince. That meeting, she claims, took place in London at Maxwell's home near Hyde Park in two thousand and one. Geoffrey says that when the Duke of York arrived, Maxwell was more coquettish than usual. She recalled the Duke being asked to guess her age and that he answered correctly seventeen.

4:48 According to Geoffrey, the evening entered back at the house, where Maxwell and Epstein headed upstairs, signaling it was time that I take care of the prince. She writes that he was friendly enough, but still entitled, as if he believed having sex with me his birthrate. She says she was particularly stuck by his attention to my feet, adding he was eager to get to the bed. In my memory, the whole thing lasted less than half an hour. The next morning, she says, Maxwell told her you did well. The Prince had fun. Geoffrey writes that Epstein later gave her fifteen thousand dollars. Geoffrey alleges there were three encounters in total, in London, New York and on Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands, describing the final incident as an orgy involving eight other young girls who didn't really speak English. Reflecting on the culture that enabled her abuse, Geoffrey writes, so many young women, myself included, had been criticized for returning to Epstein's lair, even after we knew what he wanted from us, But that stance discounts what many of us had been through before we encountered him.

5:47 She adds, a master manipulator, he threw what looked like a lifeline to girls who were drowning. Later, she reflects, some people still think Epstein was an anomaly, an outlier, and those people are wrong. The way he viewed women and girls as playthings to be used and discarded is not uncommon among certain powerful men who believe they are above the law. Prince Andrew has always denied the allegations. He says he never met Jeffrey and had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes. In February twenty twenty two, he reached a financial settlement with her, made without any admission of liability. More graphic excerpts can be found in the Guardian, including Jeffrey's first encounter with Donald Trump at Maru Lago. Virginia Jeffrey died in April, aged forty one, back with Pallace in just a moment, King Charles faces fresh pressure to further distanced Prince Andrew. As Virginia Jeoffrey's posthumous memoir arrives for the first time, the wider public will be able to read Jeffrey's full account, including a claim that she was trafficked to London, New York and US Virgin Islands to have sex with Prince Andrew at age seventeen. In the London chapter, she writes that the Duke correctly guest her age and told her my daughters are just a little younger than you, and later that he was friendly enough, but still the titled as if he believed having sex with me was his birthrate. Biographer Andrew Lowney, author of entitled About Andrew, and Sarah Ferguson, told Newsweek, this is more pressure on Andrew. It's more evidence, and so I think most people don't know about the billionaire's playboy club, so they feel this as new. It's more pressure and

7:19 clearly the press are moving in on Andrew in a big way. It seems to me the Palace need to take it seriously. They're going through the motions, but they don't see any concrete action being taken on potential steps. He added, signing himself the Knight of the gartera is incredibly pompous, but also what is he doing being a Knight of the Garter. That's an easy enough thing to remove. Lowney also argued the Royals should consider removing the Duke and Duchess of York titles. Take away the Duke of York and he's still a prince. But we don't have the Duchess of York then, and she needs to be kind of sanctioned. Though these may not make a huge amount of difference, at least they're seeming to do something, which is what the public wants. I think they now need to look at accountability and transparency over their finances, over the royal records, Royal commentator Hillary Fordage told Fox News given recent revelations, with mounting media outrage threatening the overall reputation of the monarchy, the extended family isn't taking this lightly. Prince William is enraged. He is actively lobbying to ensure Andrew was completely excluded from all than any family activities. He is also behind removing titles once he becomes king. Royal broadcaster Helene de Chad told Fox News Digital that Andrew's narrative doesn't match the intercepted emails, adding that the general consensus is he didn't ever attempt to end his friendship with Epstein, indicating that he has continuously lied.

8:42 She said the Duke believes he's done no wrong, describing him as completely detached from the consequences of his actions. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams warned that as more embarrassing material appears, and very possibly more that involves Sarah Ferguson, there isn't much the monarch can do. It may get worse and this will damage the monarchy. Andrew Lowney adds, I think the reason that Epstein and Andrew were such good friends was that they were interested in the same stuff, basically money and sex. Andrew gave Epstein respectability and some useful contacts from his role as a special trade envoy for Andrew. Epstein provided someone who would pay Sarah Ferguson's bills, a ready supply of women and access to wealthy connections. In the Telegraph, Rowan Pelling writes, there's only so much outrage a jaded sulcan muster at assorted second tier royal or so at thought. However, the news of Prince Andrew sent a ludicrously chummy email to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein nearly three months after the date he claimed to have severed all ties with the jailbird makes my flesh crawl. I can't be alone in feeling furious whenever I see photos of Andrew trotting around wins a great park with the Queen's long serving stud groom, Terry Pendry, or when you hear his entertained friends on a royal estate, or introduced his daughters to wealthy Arab contacts, still a parent peddling some last vestige of royal influence. In short, isn't it about time? At least one old nursery rhyme was rewritten the grand old Duke of York. He told some porky pies.

10:11 They marched him out the royal firm, and he said it big bye bye. There you haven't I'd like to email us addresses the palasintrig at gmail dot com Please follow us on Spotify, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, all the social media hubs. We're out there everywhere. Don't forget. This month is October and Halloween. We have a couple of great channels from Callaoygushark Media up and running. One is called Halloween Pop Up and it's full of several of our shows and the Halloween themed elements, Halloween murders, Halloween ghost stories, Halloween music. Check it out. It's called Halloween Pop Up Channel. And our grand old granddaddy of ghost stories it's called Ghost Scary Stories, Ghost Scary Stories, and that has a new show every day this month. Check it out Ghost Scary Stories and Halloween Pop Up Channel. Wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermot.

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