FLASH
Shkruar nga PamfletiThere are extensive files on Andrew, including photographs, in the hands of hostile regimes from Russia to China, documenting his sexual exploits as well as his greed. The former prince is said to be vulnerable to blackmail and his position is a real time bomb placed under the monarchy. An impossible sheep to debunk.
All families with a black sheep are the same, but a royal family with a black sheep has its own problems.
And the former Prince Andrew, now simply Mountbatten-Windsor and for a few moments a common prisoner, has done everything he can to fulfill this role and discredit his venerable relatives.
Petted and flattered throughout his life, he has ultimately revealed himself as the worm that threatens to bring the entire edifice of monarchy to its knees.
And to think he was Elizabeth's favorite.
The Queen forgave everything to Andrew, her favorite (in the movie "The Crown" he is seen landing his helicopter on the Windsor lawn, throwing everything into the air) there has always been a rumor in London, which has never been fully confirmed, that Andrew was not actually the son of Prince Philip.
Charles's younger brother, by birth, was second in line to the throne and remained so until William's arrival, and if anything had happened to Elizabeth's heir in those years, Andrew would have become king.
Imagine that. And yet, to this day, despite having all his other titles stripped from him, he remains eighth in line to the throne and only the third to reach adulthood (after Harry).
So the prospect of him becoming regent, in the event of catastrophic events, is not entirely out of the question. But more than the Crown, sex has always been Andrew's morbid obsession, which earned him the nickname Randy Andy (Andy the Baboon, who even brought porn stars to the Palace) and led him into the circle of Jeffrey Epstein, the American paedophile tycoon who supplied him with many young girls on whom he could indulge his desires, including Virginia Giuffre, then a minor, who would become his relentless accuser from the grave (she killed herself last spring and then her posthumous memoirs, full of sordid revelations about Andrew, were published in the fall).
Charles himself had never had much faith in his younger brother, so much so that in 2001 he advised the government not to appoint him as special envoy for trade.
But then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, encouraged by his lover Peter Mandelson (who was also devastated by his friendship with Epstein), appointed him.
"He'll end up chasing women and playing golf," Charles commented. And so it happened, so much so that once, in Thailand on a "business" trip, Andrew even had up to 40 prostitutes waiting for him at his hotel.
In the end, he had become a burden that threatened to bring down the entire royal house, however, Charles hesitated for a long time before cutting the boil, because the brotherly bond was impossible to suppress.
And so, Andrew, although stripped of all his noble titles, starting with that of prince, and expelled from Royal Lodge, his 30-room residence in Windsor, was welcomed to Sandringham, the private estate of the king, who offered to pay the rent for him: a black sheep, then, but one that is more prudent to keep in the fold.
In the end, the axe fell on Andrew not for his dirty sexual affairs, but for his business acumen.
The most striking example was brought to light by a recent BBC investigation, which revealed that the then-prince may have been involved in a money laundering operation originating in Kazakhstan. The British public broadcaster reconstructed the details of the sale of a mansion given to Andrew by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of his wedding in 1986.
It is Sunninghill Park, in Berkshire, a twelve-bedroom, twelve-bathroom estate, sold in 2007 by Andrea to a Kazakh oligarch, Timur Kulibayev, son-in-law of then-dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev. Even at the time, the fact that the villa had sold for £15 million (over €17 million) was astonishing, £3 million more than the asking price and almost double its market value.
At first glance, these circumstances seemed inexplicable. But it later emerged that Kulibayev had used a loan for the purchase from a company that had just received funds from a bribery scheme: a classic money laundering scheme, where the proceeds of corruption are "cleaned" through an investment in real estate, at the center of which was Andrea.
After the sex scandal involving American tycoon Epstein, which cost Andrew all his titles, the former prince's unfettered business dealings have come under the spotlight. According to his biographer Andrew Lownie, when he travelled the world as Britain's foreign trade envoy, Andrew had no qualms about embezzling millions in bribes, often from corrupt regimes.
This would explain how the prince was always able to live a luxurious lifestyle, far beyond his official capacity.
There are said to be extensive files on Andrew, including photographs, in the hands of hostile regimes from Russia to China, documenting his sexual exploits as well as his greed. The former prince is said to be vulnerable to blackmail and his position is a real time bomb placed under the monarchy. An impossible sheep to untangle.
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