/Artikel av Judy Cox i vänstertidningen "Socialist Worker", UK, 19 oktober 2025. Originalsidan kan läsas här./
Royals want to hide that they protected paedophile Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew is the shit that the royal family just cannot scrape from their shoes, however hard they wipe their well-shod feet.
In a posthumous memoir to be published this week, Virginia Giuffre says he “believed having sex with me was his birthright”.
The paedophile prince denies all wrongdoing. But he has been stripped of shedloads of fake titles and unearned honours as explosive disclosures contained in emails in the possession of the US Congress hit the fan this week.
Back in 2011, the former Duke of York tried to get his police bodyguard to dig up dirt on Giuffre. He wanted to smear Giuffre just hours before a picture of him with his arm around her waist—when she was the 17-year old—was published.
He continued to visit Jeffrey Epstein in New York after the financier’s conviction for child sex offences in 2008. Photographs showed him opening the door of Epstein’s palatial East Side townhouse in December 2010 before the pair had a cosy stroll through Central Park.
The new emails reveal that Prince Andrew secretly told Epstein, “We are in this together,” and, “We’ll play some more soon,” in February 2011. He later claimed to Emily Maitles on BBC Newsnight that he cut all ties three months before those emails were sent.
Other newly seen emails suggest that Epstein set the paedophile prince up on a dinner date with a second young woman. She says Epstein sexually abused her for years.
Another email shows that the prince’s family maintained ties with Epstein. His former wife—grifter Sarah Ferguson—and daughters princesses Beatrice and Eugenie were the first people to visit Epstein after his release from jail for child sex offences.
Ferguson begged Epstein to lend her up to $100,000 and pleaded to be allowed to visit his notorious private island.
She has also been stripped of her title after emails showed she called Epstein her “supreme friend” months after she claimed she had cut ties.
During Prince Andrew’s car crash Newsnight interview in November 2019 he denied he abused Giuffre. He claimed to be at a branch of Pizza Express in Woking with his daughter Beatrice when one rape took place.
He said Giuffre’s description of him as sweaty at a nightclub was untrue because an “overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands war” had left him unable to sweat.
Four days later, Prince Andrew stepped back from royal duties.
Prince Andrew was not Epstein’s friend despite sexual abuse. Their friendship was built on the sexual exploitation of others. Epstein never hid his systematic abuse of underage girls—it was his unique selling point.
For more than two decades, Prince Andrew partied with Epstein and Maxwell who is serving 20 years for sexual abuse of minors.
Epstein and Maxwell were at the heart of a grooming gang which served up teenage girls to be abused by rich and powerful men.
Prince Andrew attended naked pool parties and was treated to numerous foot massages by a “harem” of adolescent girls.
Men like Prince Andrew monetise friendships and family relationships and use them to advance their own interests. That is why both Epstein and Harvey Weinstein were guests at the lavish 18th birthday party held for Prince Andrew’s daughter Beatrice.Epstein was arrested nine days later, and Weinstein’s sexual abuses sparked the #MeToo movement.
Men like Prince Andrew, Epstein and Trump see behaviour that would disgust most people as an affirmation of their power and right to dominate others.
Epstein was a guest at a party hosted by the queen at Windsor Castle in 2000. After Epstein was released from prison, rumours began to swirl. So the queen invested Prince Andrew with the insignia of a King Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order—the highest honour she could give him.
The royal family represents the worst of all worlds. They depend on outdated notions of respect and duty but pursue personal gain as ruthlessly as any Dragon’s Den entrepreneur.
Prince Andrew dined out on his royal connections, using Buckingham Palace to impress the billionaire son-in-law of deposed Tunisian dictator Ben Ali. “Air Miles Andy” flew to Egypt with David “Spotty” Rowland—a businessman who gave Ferguson £50,000—to dine with the corrupt president of Kazakhstan.
The president’s son-in-law bought Prince Andrew’s unwanted mansion for £15 million, a cool £3 million more than the asking price.
Prince Andrew once claimed to be too “honourable for his own good”. But he represents the sense of entitlement of the “Droit de Seigneur”—the right of feudal lords to rape peasant women on their wedding night.
But that was compounded with the industrial-scale commodification of women perfected by the capitalist system.
The voices of sexually exploited women and children have been silenced by the monarchy, judiciary, police, church, CEOs and politicians. This complicity has enabled the perpetration of abuse.
Prince Andrew and Epstein, like so many powerful sexual abusers, were not exposed by journalists, friends or family members or law enforcement agencies. They were only brought down because the women involved refused to be intimidated into silence any longer.
Last week, Prince Andrew was forced to cancel an extravagant birthday party for Sarah Ferguson, to be held at their shared Windsor mansion. But they won’t be left on the streets.
Giuffre took her life in April. She was just 41. Her relatives said the latest revelations “expose the lengths to which those implicated try to discredit and defame survivors. The truth will surface and there will be no shadows in which they can hide”.
The royal family has done everything possible to protect Prince Andrew. Not one of the parasites has bothered to express any compassion for what the victims of this grooming gang have endured.
