ANALYSIS: 'The Queen will be embarrassed': Prince Andrew's BBC interview was devoid of self-awareness
As Prince Andrew put it, although"not wanting to sound grand", he's surrounded by hundreds of staff and courtiers in his daily life at Buckingham Palace.Epstein was a billionaire paedophile who was convicted of sexual offencesSurely most are struggling to make eye-contact with him now, after heIt was supposed to be a sit-down interview to draw a line under months of critical coverage of his friendship with the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
"The reason being is that the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful," he said.No doubt Epstein's many victims regret ever encountering him — women have testified that he ruined their lives. The unflappable host of Newsnight, Emily Maitlis, spent much of the interview zoning in on those allegations, which the Duke of York has always vehemently denied.
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