Members of the royal family rarely give media interviews. Queen Elizabeth never sat down in her wisdom to be grilled during her record-breaking 70-year-old government.
The restraint to 'leaving daylight on magic', as Victorian journalist Walter Bagehot said, is completely understandable. Every royal interview is a large, important event – not to mention a risk. It goes without saying that it is necessary to tell the truth.
The disastrous meeting of Prince Andrew with Emily Maitlis in 2019 was a perfect example of how to do things. And now, with the disclosure during the weekend of e -mails between the Duke of York and his deceased friend, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that notorious interview seems to have been an even bigger blunder than previously thought.
In one of the scary e -mails, released by the Financial Conduct Authority, Prince Andrew Epstein begged to keep close contact and we will play a little more soon !!!! ''
That was sent in February 2011. Nevertheless, Andrew said to Mrs. Maitlis that he had already stopped contact with the Chattered American financier at the beginning of December 2010 when they were photographed by the New York Central Park. The duke explicitly told her: “I never had contact with him from that day.”
The new evidence suggests that Andrew may have lied. Since the e -mails were published last weekend, there has been no comment from the duke. This cannot be outstanding.
When the brother of our head of state, who was still on the public paylist the moment he sent these e -mails, apparently misleads the nation in a television interview with the BBC, the case cannot easily be brushed under the carpet.
Andrew not only remains eighth in line with the throne, he is a member of the Order of the Garter, our highest order of chivalry.
Andrew chose to give an interview because he suggested that it would help save his reputation
It is important that he is also a 'state adviser', one of the seven members of the royal family who has legally entitled to the king, who is still undergoing cancer treatment, “in the event that that [he] Can not take its official tasks as sovereign on a temporary basis due to illness or absence abroad '.
Until 2022, the advisers of the advisers were Queen Camilla, Prince William, Harry, Prince Andrew and his older daughter, Princess Beatrice. Later that year the king asked the parliament to add his sister, Princess Anne, and brother, Prince Edward, to the list.
The dukes of York and Sussex no longer work towards Royals (and is neither Beatrice), but it was nevertheless reported that the king decided not to remove Andrew and Harry as counselors of the state because he did not want to worsen family tensions.
Andrew chose to give an interview because he thought it would help to save his reputation. His cousin, the Duke of Sussex, seems to hope that giving interviews is a route to earn more money.
Prince Harry and Meghan's Sofa talk to Oprah Winfrey in 2021, for example, was intended to launch them as a new 'PowerPaar' in Hollywood.
Instead, instead, it warned Americans that they were a few 'grifters' (a term that was later used over the couple by a Spotify Exectuive) who were completely happy to dispute Harry's own loving family members.
In an e -mail, released by the Financial Conduct Authority, Andrew Jeffrey Epstein begged to keep close contact and we will play a little more soon !!!! ''
We will never know how inaccurate some of their claims were, because those who attacked them, such as Prince William and Catherine, will not respond in public. Yet it is without a doubt that 'memories can vary', as Harry's grandmother said the memorable.
Despite everything Harry has done to damage the monarchy, he remains fifth in the succession line, as well as a state adviser.
The time has now come for the king to inform the parliament that his younger son and his brother Andrew must be removed as counselors of the state and the line of follow -up of the line of follow -up.
This must be done before they cause even more damage to the monarchy.
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