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Last week Prince Philip’s memorial was held at Westminster Abbey and he stole the show by appearing alongside his mother Queen Elizabeth, taking a front row seat.
Royal Family News – Andrew Has High Hopes
According to the Daily Mail, inside sources, “close to the disgraced duke insisted last night that he ‘still has a lot to give to people who will let him.’” Perhaps “let him” is the key phrase here.
Andrew’s reputation was in tatters even before he paid off his friend Jeffrey Epstein’s, “sex trafficking victim,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She took him to court last August alleging that she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three occasions, while a minor and a victim of Andrew’s dead, convicted pedophile friend.
Royal Family News – Andrew Denies All Allegations
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Andrew denies all charges against him but agreed to an out of court settlement in which he paid, “a reported £12million to settle allegations of sexual abuse.”
As if using his triumphant Abbey appearance as a stepping stone, he later issued a since-deleted essay on his military exploits. He used his ex-wife’s social media to do so, and bragged about his activities during the Falklands War. Adding another layer of obnoxiousness, he signed it using a title he has been forbidden to use, ‘HRH.’
No wonder he deleted the entire diatribe. Andrew himself agreed with Buckingham Palace that he would obey after being stripped of his military and royal titles but does a tiger ever change its stripes?
Royal Family News – Is Andrew Deserving Of A Comeback?
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Aides told The Times that the disgraced duke, “was taken aback by the level of hostility to the post, and is now trying to carve out a new role in public life once again in the belief he still has more to offer.”
Just what he has to offer is not something royal experts wish to ponder nor discover.
A source close to the disgraced royal added, “He [Andrew] is clearly in an awful place. If you read it (the Instagram post), it was incredibly personal, and incredibly thoughtful. Even the reaction to that…here he was as a veteran sharing something deeply personal on this important anniversary – it was surprising that it couldn’t be read as what it was.”
Perhaps the public did read it as what it was and the offense taken should be a lesson to the man who would not be king.
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