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Some of you have been kind enough over the past few months to praise me for my output. <\/p>\n
There are certainly various and incredible amounts of Andrew-related news percolating out of the Palace this evening. It has been fascinating to read it all, parse it, sift it, and try to separate the wheat of reality from the chaff of spin.<\/p>\n
Firmly in the \u201cspin\u201d pile for me was Emily Maitlis\u2019 incredible revelation that King Charles masterminded the whole manoeuvre, just like the palace said, and that Prince William\u2019s only contribution to the defenestration of Prince Andrew was to express concern for his uncle\u2019s mental health!<\/p>\n
Yep, he looked really concerned about him that day of the Duchess of Kent\u2019s funeral, didn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n
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I would note that Maitlis\u2019 report earlier this week \u2014 claiming Beatrice and Eugenie had been threatened with losing their titles by William \u2014 was both the diametric opposite of what she told us today and was also <\/span>swiftly and stridently denied<\/a> by Kensington Palace.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m afraid I stopped being able to take her <\/span>News Agents\u2019<\/em> report entirely seriously when she declared that the King had been the \u201csteely\u201d one in all this. I also couldn\u2019t help noticing how very closely her talking points replicated much of the official Buckingham Palace briefing issued yesterday. That said, I believe the detail that Andrew fought his defenestration to the bitter end and couldn\u2019t believe it when the reality of what was coming dawned on him. <\/span><\/p>\n The London <\/span>Times<\/em> reports that Andrew won\u2019t get any Royal Collection art at his new home in Sandringham, that Sarah has declined the opportunity to relocate to the windswept wilds of Sandringham, that Andrew emailed Jeffrey Epstein to say that it would be \u201cgood to catch up in person\u201d months before their meeting in New York in 2010, and er, that we\u2019ve seen the king\u2019s \u201csteel\u201d in his dealings with Andrew. The Sun also clocks Charles\u2019 \u201csteel\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n SO MUCH STEEL!<\/p>\n The Telegraph reveals that some MP\u2019s want Andrew removed from his position as 8th in line to the throne, and that Queen Camilla <\/span>lobbied<\/a> that Andrew\u2019s association with Jeffrey Epstein was compromising her work supporting sex abuse victims (hence that killer last line in the statement).<\/span><\/p>\n