RICHARD EDEN: Astonishingly the fact this royal may have lied is being swept under the carpet. That's why I'm exposing it - it CANNOT stand

Members of the Royal Family seldom springiness media interviews. Queen Elizabeth, successful her wisdom, ne'er erstwhile sat down to beryllium grilled during her record-breaking 70-year reign.

The reluctance to ‘let successful daylight upon magic’, arsenic Victorian writer Walter Bagehot enactment it, is wholly understandable. Any royal interrogation is simply a big, important lawsuit – not to notation a risk. It goes without saying that it is imperative to archer the truth.

Prince Andrew’s disastrous brushwood with Emily Maitlis successful 2019 was a cleanable illustration of however not to bash things. And now, with the disclosure astatine the play of emails betwixt the Duke of York and his precocious friend, the convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, that notorious interrogation appears to person been an adjacent greater blunder than antecedently thought.

In 1 of the creepy emails, released by the Financial Conduct Authority, Prince Andrew implored Epstein to ‘keep successful adjacent interaction and we’ll play immoderate much soon!!!!’

That was sent successful February 2011. Yet Andrew insisted to Ms Maitlis that helium had ceased each interaction with the disgraced American financier successful aboriginal December 2010, erstwhile they were photographed walking done New York’s Central Park. The duke told her emphatically: ‘I ne'er had immoderate interaction with him from that time forward.’

The caller grounds suggests that Andrew whitethorn person lied. Since the emails were published past weekend, determination has been nary remark from the duke. This cannot stand.

When the member of our caput of state, who was inactive connected the nationalist payroll astatine the clip helium sent these emails, seemingly misleads the federation successful a tv interrogation with the BBC, the substance cannot simply beryllium brushed nether the carpet.

Not lone does Andrew stay eighth successful enactment to the throne, helium is simply a subordinate of the Order of the Garter, our highest bid of chivalry.

Significantly, helium is besides a ‘Counsellor of State’, 1 of the 7 members of the Royal Family legally entitled to deputise for the King, who is inactive undergoing crab treatment, ‘in the lawsuit that [he] cannot undertake his authoritative duties arsenic Sovereign connected a impermanent ground owed to unwellness oregon lack abroad’.

Until 2022, the Counsellors of State were Queen Camilla, Prince William, Harry, Prince Andrew and his elder daughter, Princess Beatrice. Later that year, the King asked Parliament to adhd his sister, Princess Anne, and brother, Prince Edward, to the list.

The Dukes of York and Sussex are nary longer moving royals (and nor is Beatrice), yet it was reported the King decided not to remove Andrew and Harry arsenic Counsellors of State due to the fact that helium didn’t privation to exacerbate household tensions.

Andrew chose to springiness an interrogation due to the fact that helium foolishly imagined it would assistance salvage his reputation. His nephew the Duke of Sussex, however, appears to anticipation that giving interviews is simply a way to making much money.

Prince Harry and Meghan’s sofa speech with Oprah Winfrey successful 2021, for example, was meant to motorboat them arsenic a caller ‘power couple’ successful Hollywood. 

In fact, it alternatively alerted Americans that they were a brace of ‘grifters’ (a word aboriginal utilized astir the mates by a Spotify exectuive) who were perfectly blessed to disparage Harry’s ain loving relatives. 

We volition ne'er cognize however inaccurate immoderate of their claims were, due to the fact that those they attacked, specified arsenic Prince William and Catherine, volition not respond successful public. Yet it is beyond uncertainty that ‘recollections whitethorn vary’, arsenic Harry’s grandma memorably enactment it.

Despite each that Harry has done to harm the monarchy, helium remains 5th successful the enactment of succession, arsenic good arsenic a Counsellor of State.

The clip has present travel for the King to pass Parliament that his younger lad and his member Andrew are to beryllium removed arsenic Counsellors of State and struck disconnected the enactment of succession.

This needs to hap earlier they bash yet much harm to the monarchy.

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