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If you hang around with a paedophile after his conviction and expect nobody to raise an eyebrow, you are two things – stupid and entitled.

Here’s looking at you, Prince Andrew.

Mother dearest has helped him out in recent times, as has his brother, Charles, in the wake of a reported £12 million out of court settlement with Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Other than appearing alongside the Queen at Prince Philip’s memorial, the Duke has been keeping a low profile. Chances are he’ll see what Tina Brown has written in her book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil.

A long-winded title, but it appears to be packed full of juicy information. Here’s NewsAU:

“Privately, Epstein told people that Andrew was an idiot, but — to him — a useful one,” Brown writes in the book…

“A senior royal, even if tainted, is always a potent magnet abroad,” Brown continues.

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“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.”

Nothing like carting a prince around with you to open a few doors.

Conversely, Andrew also felt like he was benefitting from the relationship:

“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.”

That makes it slightly ironic that he’s had to rely on the Royal Family purse strings to settle out of court with somebody who was first introduced to him by Epstein and his righthand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The book is set for release on April 26 and is already the number one seller in Amazon’s ‘Historical British Biographies’ section.

According to The New York Post, no punches are pulled:

The journalist further describes the royal in unflattering terms, writing: “Andrew, unfortunately, exhibited classic symptoms of what is scientifically recognized 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.”

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Brown adds that Andrew had a combination of “overweening self-confidence and unchallenged ignorance.”

I find it unfathomable that there are still ardent monarchists in the UK who think the institution brings tangible value to society.

Brown also labelled Epstein, Andrew, and Maxwell ‘the Three Musketeers of Lust’.

Sounds like a nice way of dressing up what was essentially a global sex trafficking operation that wrecked lives and continues to do so to this day.

[sources:newsau&nypost]