{"id":3292,"date":"2020-10-14T21:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=3292"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T14:03:27","slug":"prince-andrew-victim-or-villain","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/prince-andrew-victim-or-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Andrew: Victim or Villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3338\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1189369843-e1602704942967.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Andrew\" width=\"1024\" height=\"882\" data-gz_credit=\"Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the biggest scandal to hit the Windsors since the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/princess-diana-best-beauty-fashion-looks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Princess Diana<\/a> \u2014 and could yet prove to be the most damaging to a senior royal since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The revelations that Prince Andrew, currently eighth in line to the throne, was not only friendly with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">but, so it is alleged, may have been a participant in the sexual exploitation of a 17-year-old girl, has Buckingham Palace reeling \u2014 even more so amid reports that the FBI is not done and will expand its investigation into the disgraced financier, who took his own life in a Manhattan prison cell in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A friend of the queen told the British\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sunday Times<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0newspaper: \u201cYou\u2019ve got a serious crime linked to the kind of behavior towards women that people feel particularly strongly about at the moment. Andrew\u2019s association with [Epstein] is deeply damaging.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The allegations stem from court papers filed in Florida by Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2015. She says she was forced to have sex with Andrew on three separate occasions \u2014 in London, New York, and on Epstein\u2019s private Caribbean island \u2014 when she was still a teenager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking in August last year at a Manhattan hearing, Giuffre said of the prince: \u201cHe knows exactly what\u2019s he done, and I hope he comes clean about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prince Andrew strenuously denies all the allegations against him \u2014 but so seriously is the Palace taking the scandal, it has been forced to issue a string of extraordinary statements, with the most recent signed by the prince himself. He stated that he saw Epstein \u201cprobably no more than only once or twice a year,\u201d and that, \u201cat no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behavior\u201d related to Epstein\u2019s trafficking and sexual abuse of underage girls.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3341\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3341 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/Jeffrey-Epstein-Mugshot.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein Sex Offender Mugshot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1120\" data-gz_credit=\"Photo by Florida Department of Law Enforcement via Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Epstein Sex Offender Mugshot, taken after being charged with procuring a minor for prostitution on July 25, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He concluded: \u201cI am at a loss to be able to understand or explain Mr. Epstein\u2019s lifestyle. I deplore the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in, or encourage any such behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Royal watchers in the U.K. remain unconvinced, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t going away,\u201d continues the Palace insider. \u201cThere is a need for him to do or say something more than the statements that have been put out so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From all accounts, Andrew met financier Jeffrey Epstein in 1999, through the now jailed socialite Maxwell, daughter of disgraced publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. The prince at that time held the official role of trade envoy, charged with encouraging investment in British business around the world. His activities were already raising eyebrows: A string of associations with dubious characters, including the son of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi \u2014 as well as rumors about his colorful private life \u2014 had earned him several unflattering nicknames, including \u201cAir Miles Andy\u201d and \u201cRandy Andy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his book Andrew: The Playboy Prince, royal biographer Andrew Morton described a trip to Pensacola, Fla., during which the prince visited a topless \u201cgo-go\u201d club, where a dancer declared afterward: \u201cNow I know where he gets his Randy Andy nickname.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prince and the pedophile appeared to get on famously and throughout 1999 and 2000 were spotted together at locations including President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort and on a yacht off Phuket, Thailand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3339\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3339 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/Prince-Andrew-Jeffrey-Epstien.jpg\" alt=\"Prince-Andrew-Jeffrey-Epstein\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1400\" data-gz_credit=\"Davidoff Studios\/Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck, and Jeffrey Epstein at a party at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew also hosted Epstein and Maxwell at the royals\u2019 Balmoral and Sandringham estates, inviting them to a lavish \u201cDance of the Decades\u201d party at Windsor Castle to celebrate the birthdays of Andrew, Prince Charles, Princess Margaret, and Prince William in June 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew was also allegedly a guest at several of Epstein\u2019s residences, including his private Caribbean island, Little St. James, nicknamed by staff \u201cOrgy Island.\u201d But it was his continued association with Epstein after the financier had been found guilty of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008 that caused most alarm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Jeffrey was convicted, I phoned Andrew and told him: \u2018You cannot have a relationship with Jeffrey,\u2019\u201d an acquaintance of the prince later said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said: \u2018Stop giving me a hard time\u2026 Jeffrey\u2019s my friend. Being loyal to your friends is a virtue.\u2019\u201d So loyal was the prince, in fact, that he was to be a guest at Epstein\u2019s \u201cWelcome Home\u201d party at his Manhattan mansion following his release from jail in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Duke of York has never been one to take advice that doesn\u2019t suit him, and he doesn\u2019t hold back in letting you know what to do with advice that he doesn\u2019t want to hear,\u201d a former royal aide told <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, it emerged that Andrew\u2019s ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, had accepted a \u00a315,000\u00a0loan from Epstein, in a deal brokered by the prince.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble for Andrew really began in 2015, however, when he was named in court papers by\u00a0Virginia Roberts Giuffre as part of her civil case against Maxwell.The details were later struck from the court records after a judge ruled they were \u201cimmaterial and impertinent\u201d to the case \u2014 but the damage had been done, and the press was quick to seize upon the story.<\/p>\n<p>In a sensational interview with America\u2019s notorious tabloid the <em>National Enquirer<\/em>, Giuffre laid out in explicit detail her three alleged sexual encounters with the prince. A photo of Andrew with his hand around her waist as a grinning Maxwell looked on also emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace issued outright denials of all the allegations, insisting Andrew did not have \u201cany form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts\u201d and adding that the accusations were \u201cfalse and without any foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most damaging, however, was the release this summer of a video showing Andrew at Epstein\u2019s New York townhouse in 2010. In it, the prince can be seen waving goodbye to a young woman his lawyers insist that the plaintiff \u2014 that\u2019s Ms. Roberts \u2014 jump through a lot of legal hoops and try to get a court to order him to appear, which is not easy because he\u2019s in another country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr he could just say, \u2018I have nothing to hide. I consent. I accept the subpoena. I\u2019ll be happy to provide my deposition,\u2019 which is testimony under oath. He could do that. I think he should do that. Whether he will do that is another question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is Andrew simply guilty of excessive loyalty? Or something altogether darker?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3342\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3342\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1167346143.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Andrew\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-gz_credit=\" Duncan McGlynn\/Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Andrew, Duke of York is driven from Crathie Kirk Church following the service on August 11, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The sensational arrest of Maxwell on July 2 on multiple charges related to the sexual abuse of young women and girls by Epstein could provide the answer.<\/p>\n<p>While it had initially been suggested Maxwell\u2019s arrest was the end game in The Justice Department\u2019s pursuit of co-conspirators in the case of the convicted pedophile, in recent months, Grazia has learned the FBI\u2019s investigation remains active. Which should make Andrew nervous if Maxwell chooses to sing like a bird.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Southern District of New York, the notoriously tough prosecutorial body who oversaw the Epstein investigation, is known for prosecuting cases they think are unimpeachable\u00a0if\u00a0they were ever to go to trial. That means they likely have testimony from dozens of witnesses that place Maxwell firmly up the proverbial creek without a paddle.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it\u2019s a big\u00a0if.<\/p>\n<p>Most crooks whom the SDNY indict end up taking a plea deal knowing that if their case were to be played out before a jury, they would almost certainly suffer a harsher sentence than if they were to admit wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>So, as the British socialite sits behind bars without bail at Merrimack County Jail in New Hampshire, she is no doubt mulling just what to do next about the six-count indictment that alleged:<\/p>\n<p>She groomed three unnamed girls, all under the age of 18, in London, New York, and Florida, and New Mexico between 1994 and 1997;<\/p>\n<p>She befriended them by taking them to the movies or on shopping sprees and \u2018normalized\u2019 abusive behavior by getting undressed in front of them herself;<\/p>\n<p>She encouraged them to travel to meet Epstein and engage in sex acts with them and him like \u2018group massage sex\u2019 in Epstein\u2019s homes;<\/p>\n<p>Her introduction of them to him resulted in him abusing them when she was not present; and<\/p>\n<p>She lied in 2016 depositions while being sued by Virginia Giuffre Roberts that she\u2019d never groomed or had sex with underage girls herself.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell has denied she did anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If she were to be convicted of all these charges, it\u2019s doubtful she would ever leave prison again. And her options are limited.<\/p>\n<p>First, Maxwell could accept a plea bargain if offered, pleading guilty to certain charges in exchange for concessions from the prosecution. These concessions could include an agreement to seek a lower sentence or to convict her only of a lesser crime than the one with which she was originally charged. Regardless, freedom for the \u201csocialite\u201d would inevitably still be a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Maxwell could choose to fight the indictment in court. To most defense attorneys, this would seem like a foolish move. If convicted, the 58-year-old faces 35 years in prison \u2014 almost certainly what\u2019s left of her life.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the evidence against her seems to be compelling and overwhelming \u2014 proving not only was she a madam, but she was also an utterly depraved pedophile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3340\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3340 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/Jeffrey-Epstein-and-Ghislaine-Maxwell.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1120\" data-gz_credit=\"Joe Schildhorn\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005, in NYC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI believe we will learn the SDNY afforded other alleged co-conspirators, who could have been considered of less interest to prosecutors, various forms of immunity if they agreed to turn federal witness against Maxwell before the Grand Jury that rendered the indictment,\u201d a source said. That\u2019s how cases against \u201ctargets\u201d like this are assembled \u2014 like a series of building blocks.<\/p>\n<p>From the threat of prosecution, comes cooperation from \u201cwitnesses\u201d or \u201csubjects\u201d of the investigation. That block gets added to the stack of assembled evidence, leads law-enforcement officials to new evidence, and edges them closer to proving \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d that the main target is guilty of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell\u2019s major error was excessive hubris \u2014 and a failure to understand just how determined the SDNY was in this case. A source close to Maxwell has told me that she believed she\u2019d never be charged because the plea deal Epstein took in 2007 included non-prosecution provisions for himself and \u2018others,&#8217; i.e. alleged co-conspirators.<\/p>\n<p>That agreement included unusual language; the \u2018others\u2019 were never identified or named, leading many to suspect that the deal covered up a larger sex trafficking operation.<\/p>\n<p>After Epstein\u2019s dramatic arrest on the tarmac of Teterboro airport on July 6 last year, Maxwell asked her lawyers for the 411. They believed \u2014\u00a0and continue to believe\u00a0\u2014 there was no legal basis to invalidate Epstein\u2019s non-prosecution agreement that then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>In the months before her arrest, Maxwell also sought the counsel of Alan Dershowitz, a former lawyer for Epstein, who believed the deal was secure and would maintain her freedom, a source told Grazia.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the SDNY doesn\u2019t believe that to be valid. It challenged that very notion with Epstein\u2019s arrest on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. So, just as they did with Epstein, prosecutors will argue that the 2008 deal only applied to the specific U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Florida that made the agreement \u2014 not all 94 federal prosecutors&#8217; offices in the country.<\/p>\n<p>If the court agrees, that could open the flood gates to a number of cases being re-litigated in other jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of law \u2014 put simply, whether that plea deal was and is still binding \u2014 this ultimately has not yet been tested in court, as Epstein was found dead in his cell before he could come to trial, after apparently killing himself last August.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Lefcourt, one of Epstein\u2019s lawyers who negotiated that original agreement, told the<em> Associated Press<\/em> that he \u201cwould never have signed the agreement or recommended it unless we believed that it resolved what it said: all federal and state criminal liability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the AP reported on July 3: In Maxwell\u2019s indictment, the New York prosecutors appeared to build in an insurance policy \u2014 deliberately charging her with crimes occurring in the 1990s, a time period slightly before the activities with underage girls that were the subject of Epstein\u2019s 2008 guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p>If a judge were to rule that the New York prosecutors were indeed bound by the non-prosecution agreement, they could then argue that \u201cthis stuff happened before, so it\u2019s not covered and therefore Maxwell\u2019s not protected,\u201d former Miami federal prosecutor David Weinstein said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3345\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3345\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/Untitled-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ghislaine Maxwell \" width=\"1024\" height=\"1120\" data-gz_credit=\" Scott Rudd\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghislaine Maxwell attends James Perse Store Launch at 411 Bleecker on September 9, 2005 in New York City.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on counsel\u2019s advice, Maxwell was so confident that the prior deal would save her, she chose not to do what would\u2019ve seemed obvious \u2014 use her vast resources to board a private jet and flee to France where the extradition process is notoriously arduous.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget the famous film director Roman Polanski\u2019s great vanishing act. Before he could face justice after pleading guilty to statutory rape of a 13-year old girl in 1977 at actor Jack Nicholson\u2019s home, he fled the US. Despite numerous legal attempts to bring him back to face the courts, the French-Polish national has been residing in France ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Surely if Maxwell believed she was facing criminal exposure, she would have used all her means \u2014 including her French citizenship and more than 15 bank accounts with balances ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million \u2014 to evade justice?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Maxwell chose to remain on a 156-acre property in Bradford, New Hampshire, that was purchased for more than $1 million in cash through a limited liability corporation last December. And, put simply, that is why she\u2019s now behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a third option for Maxwell. She could turn whistle blower and lay out exactly how the Epstein-Maxwell blackmail and sex trafficking network operated and just who else was involved, including the many high-powered figures and notable names who until now have avoided arrest.<\/p>\n<p>To do that, she would have to name names \u2014 and turn on friends and frenemies alike.<\/p>\n<p>At last, we could learn the truth about Prince Andrew, Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, billionaire hedge funder Glenn Dubin, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, the ex-Harvard President, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Maine Sen. George Mitchell, Leslie Wexner, the Victoria\u2019s Secret retail tycoon, and many others whose names figure in Epstein\u2019s \u201clittle black book\u201d of contacts. (It\u2019s critical to note all of these men have denied any wrongdoing with regard to their involvement with Epstein and Co.)<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell will be loath to do this. As one source told me: \u201cMaxwell will never turn on Prince Andrew \u2014 and most likely not Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s unlikely to have a choice.<\/p>\n<p>If you tell on one, you must tell on all. The SDNY will not let her cherry-pick who it is she throws under the bus or protects. A lot of very big names should be very nervous right now.<\/p>\n<p>Since inmate 76318\u2013054 was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, Maxwell has been the sole custodian of the \u201cempire of dirt\u201d that Epstein built up over more than three decades working as an intelligence source for Israel, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3344\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3344\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/10\/Ghislaine-Maxwell-Jeffrey-Epstein.jpg\" alt=\"Ghislaine-Maxwell-Jeffrey-Epstein\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1120\" data-gz_credit=\"Davidoff Studios\/Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">all Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and musician Michael Bolton pose for a portrait during a party at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on February 12, 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Epstein was not only complex, damaged, and controlling; he was also incredibly calculating and predatory. He reveled in his status as a globe-trotting pedophile. He used his power to exploit the vulnerable and underaged, all the while hiding in plain sight within the innermost circles of the establishment. He used his access to trap the rich and famous and traded in the dirt he had on them to the world\u2019s most secretive intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>It is how he and Maxwell amassed their respective fortunes, as was revealed in the best-selling book\u00a0<em>Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales<\/em>. In the wake of his death, Maxwell rose to the top of the food chain. With her arrest, the Southern District of New York secured its \u21161 target. She alone now has the power to reveal all.<\/p>\n<p>Without her explicit testimony under oath, it would be an epic legal and political struggle to call many of the accused to account for their misdeeds, as we are witnessing with the battle royal between Prince Andrew and the SDNY. Following Maxwell\u2019s arrest, Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the SDNY, said she \u201cwould welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But where things get really complicated is when you consider just how invested law-enforcement officials might actually be to cut a deal with Maxwell to sing, if they\u2019ve already got a slam dunk case against her, the big fish? Sure, the SDNY might like the dirt, and there could be some consequential charges laid against prominent individuals as a result, such as Andrew, but Maxwell\u2019s inevitable incarceration represents the justice to the victims that were lost when Epstein died. Whatever further arrests \u2014 no matter how sensational \u2014 her telling all might provide, convicting Maxwell remains the primary target.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fascinating legal (and moral) tightrope \u2014 for Maxwell, the SDNY and its parent The Justice Department, overseen by William Barr, alike. And whichever defense strategy she chooses, it seems almost inevitable that Maxwell will be convicted of a more unofficial crime:\u00a0Epstein\u2019s partner in crime.<\/p>\n<p>That might be enough for The Justice Department, because diving headlong down the Epstein rabbit hole might take them to a more sinister place, filled with many inconvenient truths.<\/p>\n<p>With Epstein and Maxwell known spies \u2014 who ran a complex intelligence operation for the purpose of blackmailing powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad \u2014 her telling all would expose the secrets that helped enable one of the world\u2019s worst sexual predators to roam free for decades on American soil. That espionage scandal would be so enthralling it could forever tarnish the legacies of a number of extremely powerful high-profile individuals and noted law enforcement officials \u2014 the same people who were supposed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Will Maxwell cut a deal and throw Andrew to the wolves? Will she fight the charges? Does the SDNY even want to deal? Will she spill all she knows, no matter what the consequences? Will she even be allowed to? Stay tuned. The next steps will be crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26633,"featured_media":3336,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prince Andrew: Victim or Villain? 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