Prince Andrew's Obsessions, Perversions, and Improperities, Beyond Epstein

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London. The title of "the most perverse animal in the bedroom," according to Epstein the connoisseur, rightfully belongs to Prince Andrew, former Windsor handsome man, Elizabeth's favorite son, and a national embarrassment since his name, in a perky downward spiral that began in 2015, became intertwined with that of the financier who committed suicide in prison in 2019. Sly as Satan, the latter had made Andrew his useful idiot, as Andrew Lownie recounts in "Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York," out August 14 and already a hot topic of conversation. And of course, with all the gems it contains about Andrew, Sarah, and the Epstein galaxy. In order of international reach, the most important news is that Jeffrey allegedly sold Andrew's secrets to the Mossad, the Saudi intelligence services, and even Gaddafi's Libya. All it took was to indulge his passion for young women and the high life, and the prince would pass on information that the financier would then pass on to Israel. Not only that, but Vladimir Putin's Russia was also caught up in Epstein's waltz of information and blackmail, an "agent of influence" for the Kremlin. The most distressing aspect is that the prince, so pompous and self-important, never even felt used.

It's not as if he was just gardening at Royal Lodge in Windsor, the 30-room mansion where he lives with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and from which William is eager to evict them after King Charles stripped him of his £1 million annuity. For ten years, Andrew traveled the world on behalf of the Crown as a trade representative, gaining access to information and being easily courted by ill-intentioned individuals of various origins, starting with the Chinese —he wrote birthday letters to Xi Jinping under dictation from a spy he'd befriended, apparently with the blessing of Buckingham Palace—and anyone who gave him what he wanted, namely attention, haughty respect, and girls. It seems to have been common knowledge that during a trip to Thailand for King Bhumibol's diamond jubilee, he had 40 girls brought to his room, under the eyes of astonished diplomats, but then again, Andrew is just like that, "kinky," even by the standards of the "king of kink," Epstein.

The other scoop that dominated the scene was the one, immediately denied by California, according to which Harry punched his uncle – complete with a "bloody nose" – in 2013 for talking behind his back. When Meghan entered the scene years later, things were said in person: "An opportunist," "too old," "the marriage won't even last a month," and other pleasantries about Harry needing to investigate his future wife's past more thoroughly . Now both are black sheep, removed from the scene of a struggling royal family, although for Lownie, the financial scandals, even more than the sexual ones, will be the hardest to stomach. Andrew is a friend of Ghislaine Maxwell; she introduced him to Epstein; together they lived through golden years like 2000, when they went to Mar-a-Lago with Trump and Windsor with Elizabeth. Lownie cites a 2001 interview with Epstein by a man named Halperin, who self-published a book in 2020, in which he told him he'd met the queen and introduced Diana to Dodi Fayed. He was deeply impressed by the royals, "absolutely brilliant," as well as the "richest motherfuckers" in the world, all on the taxpayers' backs, dealing with the buffoonish, perverted, inappropriate, rude, and arrogant prince. A nightmare to have around at dinner, because he only talks about underwear and sex, with "the finesse of a grenade." A man who throws tantrums over nothing, capable of throwing an employee away because he has a mole on his face and asking his bodyguards to fetch his golf balls from around the course. And even Boris Johnson is said to have said that "I'm the last person who could become a republican, but if I have another dinner like that, it could happen soon."

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