Not once in his car crash of an interview with the BBC did Prince Andrew express any sympathy for the victims of his friend Jeffrey Epstein.
Not once did he express remorse for his 11-year friendship with the late pedophile predator.
His only failing is being “too honorable.”
The queen’s favorite son was unconvincing when he denied claims that he had sex with Epstein’s then-17-year-old sex slave, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, three times: in London in 2001, in New York and in an orgy on Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
“How do you explain the photograph,” BBC reporter Emily Maitlis then asked, referring to the notorious snapshot taken of Andrew with his arm around the bare midriff of an obviously underage Giuffre, while his friend and Epstein’s alleged “madam” Ghislaine Maxwell looks on with a smile.
“I can’t,” said the prince, who proceeded to imply that the photo was a fake, a ruse his friends had anonymously been backgrounding to the media.
It couldn’t be real because he’d never been upstairs in Maxwell’s London home, he doesn’t go out without a jacket and tie in London and he doesn’t do public displays of affection because he’s royal.
“I don’t remember that photograph ever being taken … it’s me, but whether that’s my hand …”
In an interview with the FBI in 2011, in court statements in a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2015, and various media interviews, Giuffre has described in great and consistent detail the night in London when that photograph was taken. She alleges she danced with Andrew in Tramp nightclub and later had sex with him in Maxwell’s Belgravia home in London, which began with him licking her feet in the bath and ended with “the longest 10 minutes of my life.”
She later was paid $15,000 by Epstein for her efforts and was congratulated by Maxwell for making Andrew happy, she said. She recalled thinking at the time that she was only four years older than Andrew’s elder daughter, Beatrice.