And yet, the interview, in which he made bizarre claims about his inability to sweat and failed to show any sympathy for Epstein's victims, was deemed so damaging to the monarchy that he had no choice but to give up his status as a senior working royal. "With no small irony, insiders say he owes his self-assurance to the mothering of the Queen, who indulged her second son as she never did her older children and continues to shield him," Catherine Mayer wrote about Andrew in her 2015 biography Charles, The Heart of a King. When asked what led him to stay at Epstein's New York mansion after the disgraced financier was released from prison following his conviction for soliciting underage girls for sex, Andrew said "it was a convenient place to stay," and that he thought ending their friendship in person was "the honourable and right thing to do".
Author: Rebecca Armitage
Published at: 2026-02-21 18:50:31
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