The claim was made within the latest documents released as part of her
High Court battle against The Mail On Sunday over an article which
reproduced parts of a letter she had sent to her father Thomas Markle in
August 2018. UK taxpayers contributed to the estimated £32million cost of
the wedding, although the church service, flowers and reception were paid
for by the
Royal Family.
The majority of the estimated figure -
£30million - was funded by the taxpayer and mostly spent on security
measures, including costs on protecting Windsor with a heavy police
presence, crowd control and restrictions placed on businesses.
UNQUOTE
Recall that
Markle Kept Her Hollywood Handlers
when she married Harry. I won't mention her again until she divorces him -
see more and better details at
Markle Will Divorce Harry In Next Five Years Or Not Say Bookies. Put a few
pounds on it? I would. Will it be like the referee says in professional
wrestling, a clean break? Not a chance.
Mr Phillips - the former head of the Equality
and Human Rights Commission - said the
Duke of Sussex's use of the term 'structural racism' made him sound
'like a 1980s polytechnic lecturer'.
He also said Meghan's claim that she 'didn't
realise that there was a Black History Month in Britain' was a mistake,
because it was first celebrated in 1987, and showed 'how little she learnt
about Britain' during her time in the country.
UNQUOTE
Prince
Harry was the pick of the bunch until that ghastly woman ruined him.
They certainly didn't teach him this Marxist gobbledegook at
Sandhurst. Does he understand
Institutional
racism? Does she?
Prince Harry Worth $7 Million To CBS Broadcasters
QUOTE
Talk isn’t cheap when it comes to Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry and
Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
CBS
VIAC 3.28% is paying a license fee of between $7
million and $9 million for the rights to air Ms. Winfrey’s interview
with Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex, according to people
familiar with the pact.
The two-hour interview is scheduled for Sunday on CBS at 8 p.m.
ET, after the network’s popular news magazine “60 Minutes.” Sunday
is one of the biggest nights of television consumption................
A spokeswoman for the couple said they are not being compensated
for the interview. CBS was seeking roughly $325,000 for 30 seconds of commercial
time during the program, according to ad buyers, about twice the
normal price of ad time in that time period............
The Sussexes moved to Montecito, Calif. and have focused on
various ventures to create audio and video content, including a
five-year pact with
Netflix
Inc. that is valued in the $100 million range, according to
people with knowledge of the deal.
UNQUOTE
If you turn up to your wedding to find that the bride has her
divorce lawyer in tow warning signals should flash but then it is
far too late. Yes,
Markle
Kept Her Hollywood Handlers. So we have the
Markle Marketing Machine Making Millions.
Meghan Markle Is A Victim - Tucker Carlson Explains [
11 March 2021 ]
QUOTE
Sunday's interview of
Prince Harry
and
Meghan Markle by Oprah
is everywhere in the news. The other news outlets are going wall-to-wall
with it. (They’re natural fangirls, so of course they love the royals.) But
we’re Americans. The idea of discussing the details of some dispute within a
decayed monarchy felt too much like European history class. Who cares?
It’s not like prince whatever-his-name-is and his angry wife from Los
Angeles are compelling. You know exactly who they are. He’s weak and
unhappy. She’s a manipulative opportunist. So who do you root for in this?
How about nobody? We were going to take a hard pass on the whole thing, but
then we heard some of it:..........
The princess, or duchess, or whatever she is – not that we know the
difference – one of the most famous and fawned-over people in the world,
told Oprah that she was incredibly wounded because she got into some kind of
petty argument about dresses with her sister-in-law at her wedding three
years ago. Stop the presses: She and her sister-in-law had a tiff about
clothes. That’s never happened before. She thinks this is important enough
to bring up in a television interview. It was her 9/11, so of course she
considers it newsworthy...............
Meghan Markle is a narcissist. We guessed that. But that’s not the whole
story. What she’s really saying is that despite her enormous wealth and
fame; despite the fact she never has to cook her own dinner or drive her own
car ever again for as long as she lives; despite the fact that every time
she heads to the gym, the journey is treated like the moon landing by an
army of awestruck reporters; despite the fact that she’s literally a
princess — sorry, duchess — she is actually an oppressed victim. She may
look powerful, but she’s powerless, which she explained to
Oprah................
I have been silenced. I am a victim."
A rational person might consider this claim absurd. But, amazingly, no
one else seems to think it is. Oprah clearly doesn’t think it’s absurd.
She’s deeply empathetic. Oprah’s worth more than a billion dollars, but she
knows the pain, because she sees herself as a victim too. She often says so.
You’re not allowed to make fun of this, and you’re definitely not allowed to
mock the oppressed duchess.............
Remember, they gave Hillary Clinton a Senate seat because her husband was
the president. They listened to her in rapt attention, despite the fact
she’d never said a single word that wasn’t banal and predictable. By most
standards, she would be considered a fairly accomplished overachiever. How
many of her classmates in high school thought she’d get this far? Probably
not too many. But because we didn’t hand her the keys to the most powerful
country in the world, she believes she’s been deeply wronged. She’s a
victim, and she’s mad about it.
You see this attitude everywhere all of a sudden — the most powerful
claiming to be powerless and wronged...............
What’s going on here? A lot of things, probably. For rich people,
deciding that you’re a victim has many levels of appeal. For one thing, it
gives meaning to your decadent, empty life. There are only so many expensive
vacations you can take to St. Barth’s, only so many overpriced clothes you
can buy, only so many dumb parties you can go to in Aspen before you begin
to realize that none of it is enough. None of it really means anything. It’s
empty. Victimhood solves that problem. When you’re a victim, you’re
inherently significant. Martyrdom means you’re forever the hero of the
story. So you can see why narcissists love it, and there are a lot of those
right now.
But there is another, darker effect of all this, an effect that has
changed our country. When powerful people decide they’re oppressed, the
balance of power changes. If you were very rich, you might imagine that you
owed something to the people below you. Noblesse oblige, they used
to call it, back when we had a responsible ruling class that thought about
other people.
Previous generations of rich people understood this very well, and they
taught their children this: To whom much is given, much is expected. That
was the deal for centuries. But self-identified victimhood instantly
nullifies this deal, and restores power to the powerful. No one expects
anything from a victim. Victims don’t give, they receive.
UNQUOTE
Tucker Carlson, a rather sound sort of chap
explains a
manipulative opportunist. Markle is
Straight Outta Compton; the phase is taken from a piece by
N.W.A, short for
Niggaz Wit Attitudes. Its opening lines are “Straight outta Compton, crazy
motherfucker named Ice Cube / From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes”.
Tucker's remarks about
Noblesse oblige are
spot on. Prince Philip knew about it. See the next one.
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh RIP Departed This Life [ 9 April
2021 ]
He served for real during the Second World
War, at
Cape Matapan and Sicily. He did some
Great One Liners Too.
QUOTE
After leaving Gordonstoun in early 1939, Philip completed a term as a cadet
at the
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, then repatriated to Greece, living with
his mother in
Athens for a month in mid-1939. At the behest of the Greek king,
George II (his first-cousin), he returned to Britain in September to
resume training for the
Royal
Navy.[20]
He graduated from Dartmouth the next year as the best cadet in his course.[21]
During the
Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two
of his brothers-in-law,
Prince Christoph of Hesse and
Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side.[22]
Philip was appointed as a
midshipman in January 1940. He spent four months on the battleship
HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the
Australian Expeditionary Force in the
Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on
HMS Kent, on
HMS Shropshire, and in
Ceylon.[23]
After the
invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the
Indian Ocean to the battleship
HMS Valiant in the
Mediterranean Fleet.[24]
On 1 February 1941,[25]
Philip was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at
Portsmouth, in which he gained the top grade in four out of five
sections of the qualifying examination.[26]
Among other engagements, he was involved in the
battle of Crete, and was
mentioned in dispatches for his service during the
battle of Cape Matapan, in which he controlled the battleship's
searchlights. He was also awarded the
Greek War Cross.[21]
In June 1942, he was appointed to the
V and W-class destroyer and flotilla leader
HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the
east coast of Britain, as well as the
Allied invasion of Sicily
UNQUOTE
The BBC did a decent
Obituary in spite of
being a bunch of left wing perverts. They can when they want. The
Mail's was longer and better - see
Prince Philip Dies. He had a prang a few
years ago; his victim was cross, then whoops;
Motorist Criticised Prince Philip's Driving Then Gets Banned For Six Months.
Vanuatu Tribe Worshiping Prince Philip Might Adopt Prince Charles [
15 April 2021 ]
QUOTE
A tribe living on a remote South Pacific Island
who believe Prince Philip is their god and the incarnation of a volcano spirit
may anoint his son Prince Charles as his successor.
The tribesmen and women on the island of Tanna
in Vanuatu are devastated by his death and have started a three-month
ritualistic mourning process.
For the next 100 days, elders will gather at a
clearing shaded by an ancient, massive banyan tree to air thoughts and drink
kava - a peppery, mildly intoxicating root drink that is a vital part of
important ceremonies in the islands.
While most chiefs wear little more than a penis
gourd, proceedings unfold with the gravity of a papal conclave, as worshippers
mull the future of their spiritual movement without its figurehead Prince
Philip.
The connection that we've had with the royal
family will endure, chief of Yaohnanen Jack Malia said.
UNQUOTE
This story is being
censored
by the
Daily Mail. Charles did anthropology at university so he would
appreciate the inner subtleties of the matter.
Prince Philip RIP Was Buried At Windsor Castle [
17 April 2021 ]
QUOTE
The Queen wiped away tears and was forced to mourn alone away from
her family in St George's Chapel during Prince Philip's Covid-hit Windsor
Castle funeral today as she said an emotional final goodbye to her 'strength
and stay' after their extraordinary 73-year life together.
Her Majesty looked grief-stricken and bowed
her head in reverence as she accompanied her beloved husband's coffin on its
final journey while their eldest son Prince Charles cried as he walked
behind the casket into church followed by other devastated royals.
The Duke of Edinburgh's coffin was covered in
his personal standard and carried his sword, naval cap and a wreath of
flowers with a handwritten note from his wife as pallbearers placed him on
to his extraordinary self-designed green Land Rover Defender hearse in the
castle's quadrangle packed with hundreds of armed
personnel..................
The emotional Queen had arrived at the funeral
as the national anthem played and the royal Bentley stopped next to her
beloved husband's coffin, where she poignantly paused for a moment of
reflection as cannons fired and bells tolled in remembrance of the duke,
wiping tears from her eyes.
UNQUOTE
There was a deal of Pomp and Circumstance but the
Prince Philip was rather special. Not many men are left, who served for real during the
Second World War. Now there is one less.
The Irish Savant Comments On
Prince Philip's Departure
Yesterday’s men. And today’s.
https://www.takimag.com/article/di-a-thousand-deaths/
Di A
Thousand Deaths
Taki goes over some of the ground of
Princess
Diana's death in 1997. He duly damns the BBC & the
greasy little Pakistani crook they used to interview her. Bashir got away with
using a forgery to deceive Her.
Piers Morgan Abuses Prince Andrew For Not Talking To American Accusers
[ 11 August 2021 ]
QUOTE
'If I speak, I am condemned,' laments
Hugh Jackman's fugitive character Jean Valjean in the movie version of Les
Miserables. 'If I stay silent, I am damned!'
I suspect that's exactly how
Prince Andrew's feeling this morning after the bombshell news that his sex
abuse accuser Virginia Roberts is suing him for battery, sexual assault and
emotional distress. Roberts now 38, claims in the lawsuit filed in federal US
court that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York three times - in
London, New York and the Caribbean - on the orders of his late billionaire
paedophile friend Jeffery Epstein.
The claim is......... ferociously damning in its detail: 'Prince Andrew's
actions…constitute extreme and outrageous conduct that shocks the conscience.
Prince Andrew's sexual abuse of a child who he knew was a sex-trafficking
victim, and when he was approximately 40 years old, goes beyond all possible
bounds of decency and is intolerable in a civilized community'.
UNQUOTE
I am sure we all accept that
Piers knew nothing
about the routine phone tapping when he edited the Daily Mirror. Of course he
didn't do a bit of
Insider trading when he paid £20,000 for
Viglen shares just before his
columnists told the rest of us to rush out and buy them. At all events he keeps
quiet about it; he stayed
out of prison too. Whatever one thinks of
Prince
Andrew he served Queen and Country for real in the Falklands.
Flying helicopters doesn't leave much scope for a shirker.
Green Prince Flies 750 Miles In Private Jet To Play Polo [ 22 August
2021 ]
QUOTE
Prince Harry has landed in Santa Barbara after taking his millionaire
friend's private jet home just months after lecturing about
climate change. The campaigning royal, 36, boarded the
20-seater £45million plane from a polo match in Aspen,
Colorado, to his home in Santa Barbara,
California, on Thursday.
He took the two-hour flight, which could have emitted as much as ten
tons of CO2, shortly after he was pictured on horseback at the polo. The Gulfstream jet is understood to belong to
one of Harry's polo friends, Marc Ganzi, according to
The Sun.
After touching down in Santa Bambara, Harry was rushed into the car and
headed back to his mansion in Montecito with Meghan and their two children.
It comes just three months after Harry said climate change was one of
'the most pressing issues we are facing', and just as his father Prince
Charles made his most powerful intervention on the issue yet, as he
told Britain's business leaders they must help, or the planet is 'done for'.......................
Harry previously attracted criticism for taking four private jet flights
in 11 days, including to a climate change summit in Sicily.
UNQUOTE
Most of the Global Warming mob have worked
out that using private jets while lecturing the rest of us about their
current hobbyhorse goes down badly. Sadly
Prince Harry Let Us
Down Too, albeit he served for real, unlike so many chancers & politicians.
Prince Andrew's Lawyers Expose His Accuser's Goings On
[ 1 November 2021 ]
QUOTE
Prince Andrew's legal team have challenged his accuser over her claims
she was abused by exposing her 'sex kitten' past and accusing her of
procuring 'slutty girls' for
Jeffrey Epstein, legal papers show.
The Duke of York's lawyers filed a blistering
36-page motion to dismiss the US civil suit brought by
Virginia Giuffre in which she accuses the Royal of rape.
The 38-year-old, previously known by her maiden named Roberts, claims she
was sex trafficked to Andrew on three occasions by convicted paedophile
Jeffrey Epstein, the first time when she was 17 and below the legal age of
consent under New York law.
The 61-year-old Duke has consistently and vehemently denied her claims.
In court documents filed on Friday night, Andrew's US legal team called
Ms Giuffre's lawsuit 'frivolous', saying: 'She has initiated this baseless
lawsuit against Prince Andrew to achieve another payday at his expense.'
They said she had profited from her association with Jeffrey Epstein, the
convicted sex offender, for years and was willing to 'milk the publicity'
for all she could but had not kept her stories straight.
Lawyers also cited a story published in the
New York Daily News in 2015 that claimed Giuffre recruited young women
into Epstein's sex trafficking ring and referenced former friends who had
described her as a 'money-hungry sex kitten' who enjoyed a lavish lifestyle.
UNQUOTE
This one was always going to get dirty.
Prince Charles Says Slavery Was An Appalling Atrocity
[ 30 November 2021 ]
QUOTE
The Royal Standard was lowered in Barbados in the early hours of this
morning as the Caribbean island became a republic - 396 years after it first
became part of the British Empire under King James I.
In a speech to mark the occasion, the Prince
of Wales said slavery was an 'appalling atrocity which forever stains our
history' as the baton was passed..........
But a planned protest against Prince Charles'
presence in Barbados and calling for slavery reparations from the Royal
Family was cancelled after the island's government denied them a permit to
prevent the spread Covid-19.
The handover of power was pointedly chosen on
the anniversary of Barbados' independence from Britain in 1966 and the
island's most famous star Rihanna jetted in to receive the honour of
National Hero of Barbados - along with cricket great Sir Garfield
Sobers.............
Chinese pressure is said to be fuelling a
drive to remove the Queen as head of state in Barbados, British MPs have
repeatedly warned.
UNQUOTE
Prince
Charles seems to believe too much Left Wing
nonsense, including the Global Warming
Boondoggle. The Royal Navy lost more men
one anti-slaving operations than two world wars. See
The Royal Navy was in the front line against slavery
for more and better details.
https://www.seangabb.co.uk/flc219-thoughts-on-the-diamond-jubilee-29th-may-2012-by-sean-gabb/
Sean Gabb Writes About The Diamond Jubilee In 2012
Sean, England's leading Libertarian does not
bother to write about the Queen's 2022 jubilee. His view of the last one is
just as apposite. He refers to her as Elizabeth the Useless; he is right.
What has she done to restrain corrupt politicians? Very little and that
badly. The family are a shower. Read for yourself. Think for yourself.
Decide for yourself.
Prince Andrew Buys Off Sex Accuser [ 16 February
2022 ]
QUOTE
Prince Andrew has dramatically settled the bombshell sexual abuse lawsuit
with Virginia Giuffre after he agreed an undisclosed deal said to be worth
£7.5million with his accuser without admitting her accusations.
Court documents filed in New York this morning
revealed the Duke of York and Mrs Giuffre have reached a 'settlement in
principle' in the civil sex claim - but royal experts said it was 'very,
very unlikely' that there was a way back to public royal life for the
Queen's son................
Mrs Giuffre, previously known as Virginia
Roberts, sued him last August, alleging he sexually abused her more than two
decades ago when she was 17, a minor under US law, while the late financier
and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking her.
UNQUOTE
The winners of this one are the lawyers, on both sides of course.. My guess is little Mrs Guiffre's
lawyer will
be in for 30% of whatever. He is David Boies, who might well have taken the
case on spec. Lotsa money for a win & nothing for a loss. NB the
Mail is censoring comments. Andy is not getting much sympathy.
https://www.unz.com/ghood/the-new-monarchy-wokeness-as-a-survival-strategy/#comment-4995652
QUOTE
anon[108] • Disclaimer says:
International diplomacy rarely offers encounters with angels.
But Prince Andrew’s adhesive contacts with reprehensible foreign
riff-raff went far beyond what was explicable or acceptable. He
hosted lunches at Buckingham Palace for the insalubrious
relatives of Middle Eastern tyrants, invited a Libyan gun
smuggler to Princess Eugenie’s wedding and Princess Beatrice’s
21st birthday party, and went goose-hunting with Kazakhstan’s
then-president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The Kazak strongman’s baby-faced billionaire son-in-law
bought the Yorks’s white-elephant pile, Sunninghill Park, for
£3 million over its £12 million asking price. This was doubly
puzzling because the only enhancements to the house since the
Yorks’s occupation was a new zoning designation that put it
under the direct flight path of Heathrow Airport.
Andrew wasn’t much better on his own turf. The former Labour
foreign secretary Jacqui Smith recalled on LBC radio in 2019
that at a 2007 state banquet at Buckingham Palace for the Saudi
king, she and her husband were left “slack-jawed” by the “awful
jokes” Andrew made “involving camels”. At a lunch with
then-London Assembly chair Darren Johnson and then-London mayor
Boris Johnson, Boris was so appalled by Andrew’s inane pitch for
city improvements, he commented to the chairman on the way out:
“I’m the last person to be a republican, but, f---, if I ever
have to spend another lunch like that, I soon will be.”
Andrew, unfortunately, exhibited classic symptoms of what is
scientifically recognised as the Dunning-Kruger effect, the
cognitive bias in which people come to believe that they are
smarter and more capable than they really are. The combination
of minimal self-awareness and dim wattage leads sufferers of
this condition to overestimate their own capabilities. Years of
enjoying unearned obeisance to his royal position allowed Andrew
to bang on with a combination of overweening self-confidence and
unchallenged ignorance. It also made him an easy mark for con
men and crooks.
His position as Britain’s trade ambassador could not possibly
last – and it didn’t. Andrew’s unsavoury sub-rosa life suddenly
blew up, thanks in part to the publication, in February 2011, in
the New York Post, of a photo taken the previous December of Andrew strolling in Central Park with the American financier and
sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – just five months after Epstein
was released from a Florida jail for the solicitation of minors.
The revelations were compounded by news in The Telegraph that in
2009, Epstein, at Andrew’s request, had given money to one of
the perennially broke Duchess of York’s personal assistants to
satisfy a paltry debt of £15,000.
Andrew wasn’t the first prominent sucker to be taken in by
the world-class manipulator Epstein. The New York power player –
said to be worth at least $500 million from a little-understood
investing career – used to perfection his customised Boeing 727,
dubbed the Lolita Express, because of its cargo of young women.
It had a rolling manifest of global masters of the universe, all
of whom loved to fly Air Jeff. Whether you’re a former president
or a former CEO, it seems one of the hazards of flying private
is that some strange craving enters the soul that makes it
unbearable to ever fly commercial again.
Epstein had houses to entertain them in as well: a gated
spread in Palm Beach, his own Caribbean island, a sprawling
ranch in Santa Fe, and a $56 million, 40-room Manhattan mansion.
Even if it wasn’t down to the strange vibes of numerous
teenage girls coming in and out of his seven-storey townhouse,
one would have thought the “tell” for these guests would be the
grotesquely vulgar and very weird decor. There was, according to
New York magazine, a life-size female doll hanging from a
chandelier, a row of individually framed artificial eyeballs in
the hallway, a portrait of Bill Clinton wearing Monica
Lewinsky’s blue dress, and a huge chessboard with customised
figurines modelled after suggestively attired members of his
staff that one guest described as “hair-raising in its
commitment to creeping people the f--- out”.
I had an unsettling encounter with Epstein myself when I was
the editor of The Daily Beast. The Cuban-born sex-trafficking
activist and journalist Conchita Sarnoff came to me with a story
that Epstein had committed not one but multiple crimes against
minors as young as 14. Yet, thanks to a sweetheart deal with
prosecutors, he had only served 13 months in a private wing of
the Palm Beach County stockade, plus a measly 18 months under
house arrest, during which he was still able to travel to his
multiple homes. All of these details and more appeared in the
six exposés we published between July 2010 and March 2011. I can
proudly say that her reports in the Beast were the first to
reveal the extent of Epstein’s depredation.
Shortly before we published Conchita’s first piece, I
returned to my glass-walled office at the Beast and found
Epstein sitting there. How he got through front desk security I
will never know, but it perhaps speaks to his celebrated gifts
for conning his way into anywhere. He was snake-eyed and terse.
“Just stop,” he said heavily as I stood staring at him from the
doorway. “Just stop. There will be consequences if you don’t.” I
thanked him for his suggestion and told him to talk to our
lawyers. “You heard me,” he said. “Stop.” And he left.
After the pieces ran, I awaited the legal bomb with
trepidation, but it never came. Instead, Epstein let fly a
blizzard of press releases about his philanthropic activities.
Perhaps he gambled that the reports would not get picked up by
other news outlets. He was right. The pieces generated chatter
in New York circles, but this was pre-MeToo, before sexual abuse
of women by powerful men was Topic A on the news agenda.
What did Andrew see in the shadowy financier? Epstein always
knew the right psychic buttons to press. There was a
hollowness in the Duke’s personality. That’s why he laughed
louder and boasted so much. He knew that for all the palaces he
lived in and the servants who Sir’d him, he was the second son
whose childhood parity with Charles was a mirage. Epstein deftly
exploited Andrew’s sense of grievance. The wife of a financier
who sat next to Andrew at an Epstein dinner told me how the
Prince suddenly declared: “I don’t know why people don’t pay us
royals more respect.”
Privately, Epstein told people that Andrew was an idiot, but
– to him – a useful one. A senior royal, even if tainted, is
always a potent magnet abroad. Epstein confided to a friend that
he used to fly the Duke of York to obscure foreign markets,
where governments were obliged to receive him, and Epstein went
along as HRH’s investment adviser. With Andrew as frontman,
Epstein could negotiate deals with these (often) shady players.
Epstein made Andrew feel he had joined the big time – the
deals, the girls, the plane, the glittering New York world,
where he wasn’t seen as a full-grown man still dependent on his
mother’s Privy Purse strings or on the harsh pecking order of
the Palace. The Duke was always as oversexed as a boob-ogling
adolescent.
I am told that former US ambassador to the UK Walter
Annenberg’s wife, Lee, was appalled when the Duke made a private
visit in 1993 to Sunnylands, their magnificent Palm Springs
estate in California, and holed up in his bedroom for two days,
apparently watching porn on cable TV.
The privacy of Epstein’s homes was a valuable prerequisite to
a prince always trying to avoid Palace censure and the scorn of
the press. On visits to New York, instead of staying as expected
at the British consulate, Andrew stayed just five blocks away
with Epstein so often, he was given his own grandly decorated
guest suite. The sardonic Epstein christened it “the Britannica
Suite”.
A key figure in the Andrew-Epstein relationship was the woman
who introduced them, Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of press baron
Robert Maxwell who disappeared mysteriously in 1991 over the
side of his yacht off the coast of the Canary Islands. Ghislaine
fell madly in love with Epstein, but the affair was brief. As a
strong-willed, mature woman with a short pixie haircut, she was
nothing like the pliable, pre-adolescent waifs Epstein liked to
dominate.
Their relationship quickly turned transactional: Epstein made
the money, and Ghislaine made the introductions. Unable to hold
his sexual attention, she found a way to keep him at her side by
recruiting “nubiles” (as she called them) to service his
insatiable needs.
Ghislaine was omnipresent in the strata that gathered to
celebrate perfume launches, art gallery openings and
air-kissing, black-tie charity galas. Sometimes, she attended
book parties I hosted. She was always a fly-by guest who came
alone and hovered coquettishly around powerful men. I never
really “got” Ghislaine, though we had many mutual friends. There
was something about her hard, shiny edge and strained vivacity
that suggested an unease at war with her self-confidence.
The primary focus of Ghislaine’s childhood was pleasing and
performing for her explosive father. Eleanor Berry, daughter of
then-Daily Telegraph owner Lord Hartwell, tells an unnerving
story of 10-year-old Ghislaine inviting her to see her bedroom
at Headington Hill Hall. Berry noticed an odd-shaped hairbrush,
a strap, a slipper and other implements laid out on the child’s
dressing room table. Ghislaine said, rather proudly, “this is
what daddy uses to beat me with. But he always allows me to
choose which one I want.” In the sadistic offering of power to
the powerless, asking her, in essence, to procure herself for
her father, one can better understand how Ghislaine fell under
the spell of a man like Epstein.
Prince Andrew was Ghislaine’s biggest social catch to present
to Epstein. He was easy to entertain and satiate.
Andrew, Epstein and Ghislaine became a peripatetic social trio
– the Three Musketeers of Lust – showing up together at Ascot,
joining a shoot at Sandringham, and stepping out at the Queen’s
Dance of the Decades at Windsor Castle in June 2000. Andrew
insists that Epstein was there only as Ghislaine’s plus-one –
but three months after the Sandringham weekend, in March 2001,
there they were again, partying together, this time in London.
It is the events of that weekend that would seal the Duke of
York’s destiny of descent and disappear him altogether into a
lifelong pit of shame.
Extract taken from The Palace Papers: Inside the House of
Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil, © Tina Brown 2022, which is
published on April 26 by Century, £20. To order, call 0844 871
1514 or visit
books.telegraph.co.uk.
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Tina Brown puts the boot in. As the
NY Times tells us she has had lotsa practice.
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Five o’clock in the morning is an unusual time for a member of the
Royal Family to be issuing instructions for staff. It smacks of panic
and suggests an overly controlling nature. It is certainly anti-social.
But in the summer of 2018 junior employees at
Kensington Palace were becoming wearily familiar with these dawn emails and
texts from the newly married
Duchess of Sussex.
Palace officials were at first quick to offer
reassurance: part of Meghan’s working day meant connecting with contacts in
the U.S., they said, when she had to be at her desk because of the time
difference, hence the early messages to staff. They also talked of ‘cultural
differences’ in management style. Americans, they suggested, were more
direct.
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His mother knew how to treat Her servants. Markle does not but then she is
Straight Outta Compton; the phase is taken from a piece by
N.W.A, short for
Niggaz Wit Attitudes. Its opening lines are “Straight outta Compton, crazy
motherfucker named Ice Cube / From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes”.
At least Princess Diana is not here to see what is going
on. Commentators do not like what they see of Markle.
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/
is not an admirer either.
