{"id":2132028,"date":"2025-11-03T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2132028"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:38:42","slug":"trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-uk-royal-family-over-andrew-epstein-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-uk-royal-family-over-andrew-epstein-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he feels &#8216;badly&#8217; for UK royal family over Andrew-Epstein saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: United States President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Nov 2) that he felt &#8220;badly&#8221; for the United Kingdom&#8217;s royal family after King Charles III <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/prince-andrew-king-charles-brother-strip-title-mansion-britain-epstein-virginia-giuffre-5436236\">revoked his brother Andrew&#8217;s title of prince<\/a> over his scandalous ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very badly. I mean, it&#8217;s a terrible thing that&#8217;s happened to the family,&#8221; Trump said when asked by an AFP reporter aboard Air Force One about the recent saga.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s been a tragic situation, and it&#8217;s too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, 79, has faced his own political woes in recent months over his own alleged relationship with Epstein, the New York financier who died in prison in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments came as the British government said it would move to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/world\/uk-prince-andrew-royal-family-lose-last-military-rank-defence-minister-5440816\">strip the former prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of his honorary title of vice-admiral<\/a>, his last remaining military rank.<\/p>\n<p>The US president has frequently expressed admiration for Britain&#8217;s royal family, most recently when Charles hosted him for a lavish state visit in September.<\/p>\n<p>Trump received a full state dinner at Windsor Castle, military parades and a flyover during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>But the so-called Epstein files have been the focal point of a controversy engulfing the second presidency of Trump, who was a long-time friend of Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Trump administration announced that it had discovered no new evidence justifying the release of additional documents or the opening of a new investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein died while awaiting trial for alleged sex trafficking of underage girls recruited to provide him with sexual massages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.channelnewsasia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: United States President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Nov 2) that he felt &#8220;badly&#8221; for the United Kingdom&#8217;s royal family after King Charles III revoked his brother Andrew&#8217;s title of prince over his scandalous ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. &#8220;I feel very badly. I mean, it&#8217;s a terrible thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22389,27727,25432],"class_list":["post-2132028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-donald-trump","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Trump-says-he-feels-badly-for-UK-royal-family-over.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132030,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132028\/revisions\/2132030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}