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-This entire sorry saga boils down to sex and greed.

-It's rare you see interviews with the royal family

in any circumstance, let alone on something like this.

-At the heart of the story is this bizarre,

dysfunctional triangle between three people.

-Prince Andrew answering questions

for the first time about his friendship

with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

-For many years, Prince Andrew tried to avoid this story.

But, ultimately, the photograph did him in.

-She provided a photo of the two of you together.

-Yes. -You've seen the photo.

-I've seen the photograph. -How do you explain that?

-I can't.

I have absolutely no memory

of that photograph ever being taken.

-Virginia Giuffre alleges that she was trafficked to have sex

with Prince Andrew.

-Trafficked by the Prince's friend -- Jeffrey Epstein.

-A very young girl had allegedly been abused

by the Queen's second son.

[ Crowd cheering ]

-That was utterly shocking.

-The reaction was absolute horror.

-How could someone like Prince Andrew

have gotten into such horrible behavior?

-It was a lifetime in the making.

-Andrew was treated like a little king.

He was very spoiled.

-Prince Charles was the heir --

Prince Andrew was simply the spare.

-But Andrew had the edge over Charles

because he was the Queen's favorite.

That's given him a lot of leverage.

-The problem is the man's an idiot.

[ Laughter ]

-Don't squeeze my fingers. Ow!

-He doesn't drink and he's never taken drugs.

But from people I talk to,

I think you could call him a sex addict.

-He couldn't keep his trousers closed.

-Are you gonna resign, Prince Andrew?

Are you an embarrassment, sir?

-Prince Andrew's world is dirty money,

dirty laundry,

and dodgy people.

-Is there any way you could have had sex with that young woman

or any young woman trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein

in any of his residences?

-No.

**

**

[ Horns honking ]

**

-It was the start of December 2010,

when I got a telephone call from one of the newspapers

I worked for, the News of the World, saying,

"We think Prince Andrew is in New York.

We don't know where, and we don't know why.

Could you try and find him?"

I'd been working as a freelance journalist

in New York from 1995, and...

the thrill of a good story or, you know, a world exclusive

never goes away.

So, I canceled my plans and called a photographer to join me

and went off to try and find Prince Andrew.

At that point, I would never have realized

what a scoop I was about to uncover.

I started looking into his official places,

like the New York Consulate General of Britain.

If he was working, he'd always stay there.

He wasn't staying with the consul general.

Ah, okay.

And I thought, well,

the next place to look would be to Ghislaine Maxwell.

His very good friend. I thought, you know,

she's got a beautiful townhouse on the Upper East Side.

So I tootled over to Ghislaine's house.

Eventually a town car arrived, and she got into the car.

So, we followed her.

First to Tribeca, where she went into a bar,

and then she went to a restaurant

in the Meatpacking District.

But no Prince Andrew.

It was very clear by 10 o'clock at night

he wasn't going to turn up.

So, I went back home, you know, defrosted,

and sat there thinking, "Where else could he have gone?"

And I suddenly thought, "Oh, Jeffrey Epstein."

He was Ghislaine's ex-boyfriend,

but also a convicted sex offender.

-A judge sentenced the billionaire

to 18 months behind bars

for paying underage girls for sex,

but his release comes early.

-It seemed very unlikely

he would want to stay with someone like that,

but at that point I had nowhere else to look.

So, on the following morning, 8:00 a.m.,

I went to Jeffrey Epstein's house.

It's the biggest private residence in New York.

And I suddenly saw lots of activity,

men in suits talking literally into their cufflinks.

And there was clearly somebody in Jeffrey Epstein's house

who was important,

and it could only have been Prince Andrew.

-I could not believe it, 'cause I was sitting at my desk

and I get this phone call

from the movie publicist, Peggy Siegal.

And she says, "Tina, Tina, I want you to come

to a fabulous dinner tonight.

Jeffrey Epstein is hosting a dinner for Prince Andrew,

and Woody Allen is gonna be there,

and Charlie Rose is gonna be there,

and we just think it would be wonderful if you could come."

[ Crowd cheering ]

Peggy then went on to explain

this was all about "The King's Speech,"

the movie that she was helping to publicize.

-It's the story of King George VI

and it's already getting Oscar buzz.

-She said this is why they wanted

to do this dinner for Andrew,

which seemed like a pretty lame excuse,

as far as I was concerned, because clearly it was

another transactional Jeffrey Epstein dinner.

The deal was Andrew would enhance Epstein's karma

and his Rolodex.

And I just was gobsmacked, because in The Daily Beast,

I had already run six exposés about Jeffrey Epstein.

She must have surely seen these stories,

and I said to her, you know, "Peggy, what is this?

The effing predator's ball?

I don't want to go to dinner with a pedophile."

-Anyway, back in front of Jeffrey Epstein's,

the door was opening and closing quite a lot.

We were all watching pretty young girls going in and out.

I've now spent three days trying to find Andrew.

Finally, out came Jeffrey Epstein

and Prince Andrew.

And it was like, "Oh, my God."

Jay, the photographer, leapt out and followed them.

And they walked straight to Central Park.

Jay got ahead of them, he stood on a rock,

and he looked down, and there in the frame

was Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein in deep conversation.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to sex offenses.

He was a horrific abuser of very young girls,

and the second son of the Queen is staying with him

and has gone out openly with him.

Why would he be seen with Jeffrey Epstein?

What is Andrew doing?

**

-So, let's start at the beginning.

-Looking at you. -Alright. Oof. Sorry.

-What is it about the royal world

that keeps you fascinated?

-Well, you have the institution of monarchy, but you also have

a family with all the flaws of any other family.

-And how do you feel about the Andrew story?

-Phew. How long have you got? [ Chuckles ]

Andrew has always had this sort of holier-than-thou,

"I'm greater than everybody else,

the Queen is my mum" attitude.

-Living at Buckingham Palace

and having hundreds of staff and everything done for you.

Of course, he's gonna have some kind of arrogance to that.

I mean, that's completely normal.

Like, wouldn't anybody?

-When you are the queen's son, no one ever tells you the truth.

So, he really grew up with a completely inflated

sense of his own self worth.

-It's acquired situational narcissism.

And it means you may not have been born a flaming narcissist,

but you become one.

And I think that's what happened to Prince Andrew.

-But then you have to ask yourself,

"Well, why wasn't Prince Edward like that,

or Prince Charles or Princess Anne?

Why Andrew?"

And I suppose there's always one runt of the litter,

and Andrew was it.

**

[ Fanfare plays ]

-Any 5-month-old baby

with all this baggage travels in royal style,

and that's exactly the case with Britain's little Prince Andrew.

**

-Prince Andrew was born in 1960

and he was just treasured.

He was the beginning of what the Queen and Prince Philip

called their second family.

The Queen's first child, Prince Charles, was born in 1948

and then Princess Anne came along in 1950.

And then, suddenly, the Queen's father died in 1952,

and young Princess Elizabeth was propelled into this job

that she really didn't think was gonna happen to her

for another 10 years.

-I here present unto you Queen Elizabeth,

your undoubted Queen.

[ Cheers and applause ]

For the next decade, she was so busy being Queen

that she really, really had a difficult time

spending much of that period with her children.

She saw them briefly in the morning

and briefly in the evening, and otherwise,

they were really left in the care of nannies.

But when Andrew was born, she was determined

to see more of this little boy

than she had her other two children.

So, she would pencil in when she was gonna see Andrew.

And he would play under her desk when she was working.

**

During their spare time, the car builders at Newport Pagnell

have been busy on a very special project --

a scaled-down version of the James Bond car

for young Prince Andrew.

-Andrew was treated, you know, like a little king.

He was very spoiled.

But Prince Charles could not have been more different.

-Gordonstoun is where Prince Charles will be

in the next summer term,

and be treated the same as all the other 400 boys.

-My husband was at Gordonstoun with Prince Charles.

Charles was very much a loner,

and the boys there picked on him.

Gordonstoun was all about teaching somebody to sail,

to swim, to climb mountains,

but Charles was rather clumsy and didn't fit in there.

But Andrew fit in perfectly there.

-He particularly enjoyed the emphasis there

on outdoor sports.

-Prince Andrew was one of the lads.

He was very mischievous, and of course,

Prince Philip loved this boy,

who was everything that perhaps Charles hadn't been.

So he had even more attention lavished on him.

Being second in line to the throne was very important,

because Prince Charles was the heir

and Andrew was the backup.

And, you know, he enjoyed his mini kingship

for many years before the fact dawned on him

that actually he was just number two.

**

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-My Lords and members of the House of Commons,

-It's obvious that Prince Charles

has always had a future as the future king.

So, you have an older brother who's got a job

and everybody is, you know, lining up for him.

But Prince Andrew's just kind of sitting there.

-Andrew's life was to be one of descending importance,

because the heir had a son, William, who then gave birth

to three children, and down, down, down, he went.

And that has been his life, all his life.

-So, we had this very needy Prince Andrew,

who was looking to feel important,

and then we had the enabler.

-In some ways, there was something really inevitable

about the downfall of Andrew,

as soon as he came into the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, that was the path of no return for Andrew.

**

-Your friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. -Mm.

-How did you first become friends?

How did you meet?

-Well, I met through his girlfriend back in 1999, who...

And I'd known her since she was at university in the UK.

-You said you weren't very good friends,

but would you describe him as a good friend?

Did you trust him?

-Yes, I think I probably did, but again, um...

[ Stammers] I mean...

I don't go into a friendship looking for the wrong thing.

-At the heart of the story is this bizarre,

dysfunctional triangle between three people.

Epstein had the money but no social skills,

Prince Andrew had the status that opened any door,

and Ghislaine was the glue.

-Ghislaine is really known in Britain

as the daughter of media magnate Robert Maxwell.

-When I first came to the UK from New York, I met Ghislaine,

and she and I immediately clicked

because we were both outsiders.

She was part of a smart group of people

who were so different than those in the royal circles.

But she was adopted very quickly,

as, you know, children of billionaires tend to be.

-She was very bright, everybody says very good fun.

And at some point, she met Prince Andrew.

He was rich, he was entitled, and Ghislaine was very similar.

And so they were a firm friendship.

-Prince Andrew was dazzled by Ghislaine.

You know, here's this wispy, smart, rich woman.

Plus, she was fun...

and highly sexed.

-I started to investigate Ghislaine

and looking into if she was going out with Prince Andrew.

He obviously trusted her, and Ghislaine quickly became

a regular visitor to Buckingham Palace.

-I was a police officer with the Metropolitan Police,

and I was based with the Royal Protection Command

for six years.

My main role was to provide 'round-the-clock

armed protection for the Queen, Prince Philip,

and Prince Andrew whilst in residence.

If you look at the front of the palace,

you'll see the policemen always on the gate.

That's where guests to see royal family would go to.

But whenever Ghislaine would enter the palace,

the routine was we used to wave her through --

no ID, no nothing.

Straight into the quad to Prince Andrew's private apartments.

She would come in and out as often as she wanted.

And she was in and out all the time.

-Which is an incredible breach of security.

At one point, she took in Kevin Spacey,

and the two of them sat on thrones

and had their pictures taken.

-No one else had that access,

apart from members of the royal family.

Myself and my colleagues were under the perception

that Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell

were in an intimate relationship.

If the Queen knew Robert Maxwell's daughter

was being entertained by Prince Andrew in the palace,

she definitely wouldn't like that,

or so we -- so we thought.

-I think Prince Andrew felt Ghislaine's pain and humiliation

probably closer than most people,

because it all fell apart for her,

and very very publicly.

-Robert Maxwell is missing at sea,

feared lost overboard from his motor yacht.

-Ghislaine had to deal with her father's death.

But there was a lot more.

-Police are investigating reports

that Maxwell took almost $2 billion

from his public companies in the weeks before

he plunged to his death from his yacht.

-The headlines were "Maxwell is a crook."

And so overnight, Ghislaine went from being

on everybody's, you know, top invitation list

to suddenly just everyone blanking her.

For Ghislaine, there was only one way out of this,

and that was crossing the ocean to New York.

[ Sirens wailing, horns honking ]

-She was, like, rehabilitating herself in New York

after the disgrace of her father in Britain.

As long ago as 2000, I had a tip

that Prince Andrew was having lunch with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Ghislaine had taken him to a place

called Nello's on the Upper East Side,

which was the one and only celebrity restaurant

that had paparazzi photographers sitting outside.

[ Photographers clamoring ]

Ghislaine clearly wanted to be seen with Andrew.

It gave her street cred.

Andrew started going to New York on a more regular basis,

and Ghislaine was always his touch point.

-When he was with Ghislaine in Manhattan,

he felt he was the center of attention.

-Ghislaine would invite him to these amazing parties,

like Heidi Klum's Halloween party.

-And I don't think Prince Andrew had ever met people like this

in his royal world.

They just had a blast.

And there was genuine affection between them.

**

-As I started to investigate Ghislaine in New York,

the name Jeffrey Epstein kept popping up.

Everything went back to Jeffrey Epstein,

who was this mysterious sort of Jay Gatsby character.

-Epstein's reputation in New York was basically,

"Who's Epstein?"

You know, my husband is a banker.

When I would talk to bankers, no one had heard of him.

-Ghislaine's role for Epstein

was to be the bridge to this big-time social world.

And as far as Ghislaine was concerned,

one of her biggest kind of big, white whales

that she landed for Epstein was Andrew.

-Jeffrey Epstein became known

as a collector of important influential people,

the crème de la crème.

At the top of that list was Prince Andrew.

-Americans go crazy for a title

'cause they still don't really understand it.

It's something that they don't have, so they want it.

And you got, you know, the prince of England --

they go crazy for that.

-That relationship was very valuable for Epstein.

But it wasn't so much about money.

The royal connection was really about status.

-It's quite astonishing when you see how many places

Jeffrey Epstein got into, courtesy of Prince Andrew.

[ Insects chirping ]

-He got to go to the Queen's private home,

Sandringham, to go shooting.

He went with Ghislaine and Prince Andrew to Balmoral.

He went to a ball at Windsor Castle.

I mean, these were prime invitations.

That definitely upped his ante and his social profile,

so he got a lot out of it.

-Prince Andrew was not, you know, naive either.

He said, you know, "This is the guy that's gonna make it happen for me.

He found the people that he thought he should be with,

that were gonna change his life, and that loved him.

-When he was with Epstein,

he felt he was the center of attention.

He felt that he was part of the big time, at last,

which he never felt when he was in England.

it's sad when you see the pathetic figure

that we see today.

There was a moment of promise with him.

[ Explosion ]

[ Drums beating ]

-Argentina today invaded and seized the Falkland Islands,

which had been under British rule for nearly 150 years.

-Have you a thought about the Falkland Islanders?

-Ah, there's my helicopter flying over at the moment.

I think its almost time I should go.

-There is a long tradition of princes

putting themselves in harm's way on the battlefield.

Most recently, of course, Prince Andrew,

flying highly dangerous helicopter missions.

-Prince Andrew was age 21 when he joined my squadron.

The fact he was a member of the royal family

really cut no ice whatsoever.

He was there as a pilot.

The role of the squadron was to protect our ships

from missile and aircraft attack as well as submarine attack.

It was a high-risk thing for him to have to do,

and he rose to the occasion.

-I've been shocked at the way that the ships were taken out.

It is a really nasty, burning wreck.

I mean, it was quite horrific.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

-At that point, he's now "action" Prince Andy.

He's under fire.

He's genuinely out there fighting in the Falklands.

-He certainly acquitted himself very, very well.

His best moments were in the navy,

because there, he had some structure

and he had some purpose, and he wasn't a bad officer.

-Our family is used to service,

so there wasn't that much of a reaction, in the sense that,

"Well, off you go. That's your job, go."

[ Marching band music plays ]

-The day we returned to Portsmouth,

the nation turned out.

The seafront was lined with people.

[ Crowd cheering ]

-When Prince Andrew came back from the Falklands,

he was a war hero.

He was called the one with the Robert Redford looks.

And that was probably the height of his popularity.

People just loved Prince Andrew.

He was the most eligible bachelor in the country.

-Would you accept an invitation from the Prince?

-Phwoar, would I! Yeah.

-He had the reputation of being a ladies' man.

But it's gotten him in trouble ever since.

**

-The organizers of the sports display haven't forgotten

the Prince's reputation with the girls.

"Randy Andy" has a practiced eye for the ladies,

and his romantic adventures have been well publicized.

-* My close friends call me Randy *

-* Randy *

-* I'm a naughty guy *

-* Randy *

[ Laughter ]

-Prince Andrew was known as the Playboy Prince.

He was a very good-looking guy.

Women were literally falling at his feet.

He always had, you know, lovely, exciting girlfriends.

-There was Carolyn Herbert, the Di lookalike;

Broadway star Finola Hughes;

Carolyn Seaward, a former beauty queen;

model Katie Rabbett.

The list, constantly updated by a watchful British press,

goes on and on.

[ Horn honks ]

-And then he met a lovely, beautiful

American actress, Koo Stark.

Of course, you know, everybody then starts saying,

"Well, who exactly is Koo Stark?"

-Prince Andrew is off on a Caribbean vacation.

He certainly deserves that after the war in the Falklands,

but it is who he is with

that has made headlines.

-It turned out, as an actress,

she'd appeared in an art house movie

where there were sex scenes.

-I want you to make love to me.

-This suddenly became unacceptable

to the British public.

The thought was she wasn't suitable marriage material.

-Ms. Stark, are you here on vacation?

-Can we please talk to you for a minute?

I know this is difficult.

-Just for a minute.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

-British tabloids are brutal in their quest

for new narratives all the time.

I mean, they build you up and they crush you.

And we saw this with Meghan Markle and Harry.

-I'm sure that Koo Stark was Andrew's first true love,

and I think it was mutual.

-Prince Andrew, I think, wanted to marry Koo Stark.

She clearly made him very happy.

-But it was bringing the family into disrepute.

Whatever was hanging on Prince Andrew

was bouncing off on the rest of the family

and had the potential to damage the institution.

-Andrew came under tremendous pressure

in the court of public opinion,

and perhaps as well from his own family,

that, no, he could not marry Koo Stark.

You know, he needs to find an English rose, a British girl.

-Koo, this way. -Koo!

-So, ultimately, they split up.

The pressure was too great.

-Good morning. -Morning, Sarah.

-And then came Fergie, as she's become known.

-Sarah Ferguson, age 26, upbringing impeccable,

social connections excellent.

-Sarah's a close friend of the Princess of Wales.

The two were frequently seen together,

but at that time the cameramen weren't paying so much attention

to Diana's red-headed companion.

-In contrast to Koo Stark,

Fergie actually knew a little bit more

about the workings of the royal family.

Her father was Prince Charles' polo manager,

and in fact Fergie had already met Prince Andrew

when they were kids together.

-The first time that I can remember was on the polo ground,

the usual place where everybody meets.

-Could I ask you if you could tell us

what you like about each other?

-Oh. -Wit. [ Chuckles ]

Charm. -Yes, probably.

-Yes. -Mm-hmm. And the red hair.

-And the good looks.

[ Both laugh ]

Sorry.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

-Buckingham Palace rang to the happy cries

of photographers today

with the universally expected announcement

of their engagement.

-Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were a fantastic couple.

She was bright, beautiful, gung-ho,

would do anything for a laugh.

Ow don't squeeze my fingers.

Ow! -Kiss me, then.

-When Fergie came into the picture,

Prince Andrew thought he was more than a royal.

I think he thought he was a celebrity.

-You're a monster.

-He just loved every bit of attention he got.

-[ Laughing ] Oh, God! Don't fall over top of the wall!

-The British royal family is the world's longest running show,

and what's happening now is the introduction of a new character.

[ Crowd cheering ]

-The interest in Andy and Fergie's wedding was immense.

-It's the true air of expectation here this morning

because these people have been waiting all night long.

I'm being swept forward with the crowd.

In fact, I don't think

I could get away from them if I wanted to.

[ Cheers and applause ]

-The public has always been fascinated by celebrity.

And the highest celebrity you can get is the Queen's family.

**

They were this talisman of the new modern royal family.

A couple who genuinely delighted in each other.

So, everybody thought, "Wow."

If something had ever happened to Prince Charles,

it would be Andrew that would be our future king.

-There was a sense that the dashing second son

had married this joyful redhead

and everything was upbeat.

But, of course, very fast it collapsed.

**

-What have you learned so things can be better

for the tourists this year?

-We got a terrific range of merchandise.

It's so good. Look at this tie.

Now, that is part of this year's merchandise.

-When I joined Buckingham Palace in 1988, my job was

as one of the Queen's press secretaries.

In those days, the media was sort of trumpeting

the arrival of Fergie and Andrew as a breath of fresh air.

-Fergie!

-But I hate that phrase, "breath of fresh air,"

because it didn't take long for that air

to turn very, very stale.

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

They couldn't maintain an air of decorum.

-Prince Andrew and Fergie were sort of early adopters

of leveraging titles for all sorts of deals.

[ Applause ]

-There was that story we broke in The Sun.

When they had their second child,

they posed up for Hello Magazine.

And the rumor was that they'd been paid £250,000 for.

And in those days that was seen as an extremely un-royal,

exploitative thing to do.

-They were a brand.

You know, today we hear about this all the time,

everybody's a brand, but not in those days.

And I think, you know, the two of them sat down

and said, you know, "We should monetize ourselves."

-They were thought to be cheapening the monarchy.

I think that was a major turning point

It seemed to sort of go downhill from there, actually.

[ Applause ]

-Her Royal Highness, the fair Duchess of York.

[ Cheers and applause ]

I think Fergie thought it would be champagne all the way,

it's gonna be fun, fun, fun.

But it wasn't fun.

Fergie was thrust into the royal world without Prince Andrew

because he was still in the navy.

-She was very unhappy very quickly,

because she really saw Andrew never.

I think she saw him for something like 40 days

in the first year of her marriage.

-He's doing the H...

or helicopter... something instructor school.

-And here she was, this young bride,

stuck in this gloomy marriage.

She was miserable and forlorn

and quickly started sort of acting out.

-Tabloid newspapers published pictures today

of a topless Fergie sunbathing in Saint-Tropez

with her financial adviser.

-One picture showed him kissing the Duchess' foot.

Several featured the pair in intimate embrace.

-The pictures of Fergie went 'round the world.

The public was shocked.

Anybody who cared about the royals was shocked.

And the royal family were totally disgusted.

-The reaction was one of absolute horror.

-Buckingham Palace issued a statement

strongly disapproving of the photographs

and the circumstance in which they were taken.

-Once those pictures had come out,

Prince Philip refused to even be in the same room as Sarah,

and Andrew was very weak when it came to his father.

Because he has no agency of his own,

essentially he allowed Fergie to be sort of banished.

-The Duke of York, who suffered the humiliation

of pictures of his half-naked wife

being published throughout the world,

looked calm today as he was driven to church

in the front seat of the Queen's car,

as the marriage of her second son falls so publicly apart.

That was 1992, the Queen's annus horribilis.

One of those years when anything that could go wrong,

did go wrong,

[ Siren wailing ]

-It's clear that what we're witnessing here

is a national tragedy.

The fight to save one of the nation's best-loved buildings.

-Buckingham Palace made it official today --

the Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate.

-The sad end to a partnership

and the start of a potentially damaging era for the monarchy.

-1992 is not a year on which I shall look back

with undiluted pleasure.

It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.

-It was at that time it was decided

that Fergie and Andrew should split.

So, the queen did nip it in the bud pretty quickly

because it's about protecting the backsides of her children.

[ Indistinct conversations, camera shutters clicking ]

-If you look at Prince Andrew's choices in life,

you get an idea of what kind of person he is.

-The prince was touring a housing project yesterday,

when he picked up a paint gun and pulled the trigger.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

-The prince went to a novelty restaurant

where mock spankings are giving by waitresses

dressed in schoolgirl skirts.

-A British paper revealed the Prince

as few have seen him before.

-Prince Andrew was so different than Prince Charles.

The reputation Prince Charles has is as a statesman.

-[ Speaking French ]

[ Applause ]

-Prince Charles is serious.

-Ladies and gentlemen...

-You know, he is genuinely committed to the monarchy.

-To many of us in the West...

-There is something quite studious about him.

And the same cannot be said for Prince Andrew.

-[ Laughing ]

-Andrew and Charles have never really been close,

because there's an over-10-year age gap.

So, Andrew always grew up knowing

that Charles was obviously the heir to the throne

and he wasn't, but Andrew had the edge over Charles,

because Andrew's always known

that he had the Queen's intense affection --

that, actually, he is her favorite.

That's given him a lot of leverage.

We saw this with Fergie.

-London's Somerset House.

Here, the divorce court in which the Yorks' marriage

was this morning effectively ended.

On the railings outside, theirs the last of 29

quickie divorce cases listed,

for HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Duchess of York.

-The collapse of the marriage to Sarah Ferguson

was a disaster,

in terms of both their reputations.

-[ Laughing ]

-But Andrew has always really stayed in love with Fergie.

-They still live together, very near to the Queen.

-And they moved in very, very wealthy circles,

and they wanted to be like those friends.

-If global elitism has a capital,

it is surely here in Davos.

-So, here's the thing about royals.

When we see Prince Andrew in private jets,

rubbing elbows with billionaires,

doing rich and luxurious things,

our assumption is that, you know, he has to be very rich,

he has to be a billionaire.

But he isn't.

If you're a royal,

unless you're the Queen or Prince Charles,

you're just not that rich.

-The Queen has her own private wealth,

which at Forbes we estimated at $500 million.

She doesn't own Buckingham Palace,

but she owns two castles, worth over $200 million.

Her private income is about $30 million a year.

As the heir to the throne,

Prince Charles has this massive estate

that he has inherited and the private income from that,

which is also about $30 million a year.

But the Queen's other children, obviously, were not as lucky.

Their income is really contingent upon the work

that they do as royals...

-How are you? [ Laughter ]

-...and also whether their mother wants

to, you know, give them any pocket money.

So, you would ask, what happens to Prince Andrew?

As a working Royal, he made roughly $350,000 a year,

which would pay for a lot of things if you're me.

But if you're Prince Andrew,

living a certain type of lifestyle,

it's not actually a lot of money.

Other royals don't live that flashy lifestyle.

You know, we see them in the news every day.

But it's their royal duties. That's what they're doing.

You know, you're not gonna see them on a private yacht.

But Andrew belongs to a different group of people.

An opulent, luxurious, fancy lifestyle is not something

you can buy out of your own pocket.

So you're dependent financially on your mother.

**

-This is where you have apartments

when you spend time in London?

-[indistinct] still has these,

and I have what was the Prince of Wales' apartment.

But they're not very big -- they're only about

three or four rooms thick.

-I went to see Prince Andrew once

when he was living in Buckingham Palace,

and I was sort of struck by what a dingy scene it was,

quite honestly.

-And that is now Prince Edward's apartment.

-It was as if he was living in a second-rate hotel.

You sort of suddenly saw

just how he has to ask his mother for everything.

He's completely infantilized.

-Prince Andrew's a brat.

In fact, there was a story about how he lines up his teddies

on his bed every night.

-You want the teddy bear story?

As a Royal Protection officer,

we would do security checks on their personal apartments.

I went to Prince Andrew's private apartments,

and he had about, I'd say, 50 or 60

stuffed teddy bears on his bed.

-Is this your teddy?

-He's got a new scarf.

-I thought, for a 41-year-old man, it was a bit odd.

And then I opened the drawer

and there was a laminated picture in the drawer

with picture of the teddy bears all in situ on the bed.

Basically, if those teddy bears aren't put back in that order,

Prince Andrew will shout and scream at the maids,

so they took a picture to make sure they get it right,

-Many grown men, yes, they keep their teddies locked away.

But they don't still have them on their beds

with diagrams for staff to follow.

Most of us have gotten past that.

So, the Queen is lumped with this not very clever boy

who wants action.

And she has this kind of conundrum,

which is what are we going to do with Prince Andrew?

[ Ship horn blasts ]

-The Duke chose HMS Ark Royal for his farewell to the navy.

-For 22 years, I have thoroughly enjoyed myself

with the likes of you.

-When Prince Andrew retired from the Navy,

he was sort of jobless,

He was also short of money.

He still had a house to upkeep,

he had an ex-wife, he had two daughters,

so he was given this job as roving trade ambassador.

Which involved flying around the world,

allegedly promoting British businesses.

-How are you? Nice to see you again.

-A great pleasure.

-It was basically a fake job.

It didn't actually pay,

but it gave him access to a lot of perks.

-He became known as "Air Miles Andy,"

because he was constantly on an airplane,

you know, pulling off free trips here, there, and everywhere.

-Air Miles Andy and his travels have been too costly, say some.

His trade envoy work costs the taxpayer

just over £1 million a year.

-Can I ask you about the comments that have been made

about an extravagant lifestyle and so forth -- is that fair?

-What is an extravagant lifestyle?

-Sometimes people do look at the royal family

and see perhaps that privilege is being used to give them

a lifestyle that people might think of as unreasonable.

-Well, I have to ask the question --

what is a reasonable lifestyle?

-Not long after 9/11,

I went to Bahrain as the deputy ambassador

at the British embassy.

When the Duke of York came in for a visit,

the problems started right from the beginning.

He had a private secretary, two detectives, an equerry,

a lady clerk, as she's called,

whose sole job apparently is to write thank-you letters.

We went with the Bahraini officials in convoy

to the main five-star hotel on the island,

because Duke of York nearly always refuses to stay

at an ambassador's residence

even though it's free, it's paid for by the government.

He always likes to stay in the best hotel.

At one point, I was coordinating things in the foyer

when the valet then turns up with the luggage

and Prince Andrew's six-foot ironing board

and tries to get his ironing board

through the revolving door of the five-star

Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

And I said to the chap,

"Why are you traveling with an ironing board?"

And he said, "I'm the only person that knows

how to iron His Royal Highness' trousers correctly."

The whole thing was an embarrassment.

And then I discovered that all these other people

had the same sort of stories.

-What people really became worried about in the Foreign Office

was not only was he unbelievably oafish

in his kind of social manners, and rude,

but also he would be going off

and doing these side deals with iffy people.

It wasn't even on the agenda.

-I am not doing this, as it were, for my own good.

I am not getting any return for this.

This is all done on behalf of the UK.

It's not done on my behalf.

-He would go off and be partying with these oligarch types,

essentially using the trade ambassadorship

as some kind of springboard for his own sleazy deals.

-For instance, in advance of the Duke of York's last visit

when I was in Bahrain,

the private secretary had told me during the pre-visit meeting

that he might be mentioning Sunninghill Park,

which was his house that had been up for sale for a while.

And I expressed surprise

because I thought this wouldn't be particularly ethical.

-He couldn't unload this house. Nobody wanted to buy it at all.

And then all of a sudden, this oligarch buys this house

for £3 million over the asking price.

The only difference in this house

from when it had first been on the market

was it was now in the flight path of Heathrow Airport.

So, it was actually even less desirable

than it had been a few years before.

It's frankly always been seen as some kind of a dubious deal.

-Prince Andrew, are you gonna resign?

-Prince Andrew, are you an embarrassment, sir?

-Prince Andrew, are you resigning?

-There's no way Prince Charles is gonna accept the freebies

that Prince Andrew has had

and then talk about them and be seen doing them.

-He's become an embarrassment to the royal family.

I think we should say, "Thank you for what you've done

over the years to promote British trade,"

but he needs to step back, he needs to go.

-He just kept messing up and making dodgy deals,

and, you know, it came to an abrupt end.

[ Chuckling ] Let's just leave it like that.

-And now he's stepping aside

as the UK special envoy for trade.

It will be seen as a response

to the controversies he's brought upon himself.

-Without all the trade envoy perks,

I think he needed Epstein.

The moment Prince Andrew met Epstein, he said "hoorah"

because Epstein was every dodgy businessman or sheik,

all wrapped up into this one little guy

who offered him everything he wanted.

-When you realize that Prince Andrew himself

is actually not that rich, then you understand

why Jeffrey Epstein would be such an attractive friend.

Because he would foot the bill.

-Fergie needed money to pay off various debts,

and it was Andrew's job to see if Jeffrey Epstein

could perhaps help out a little,

which we later discovered he did.

**

-It was a pretty good financial-social status trade

that went on between them.

And then, of course, the other great glue between them

was Andrew's sex life.

**

[ Camera shutters clicking ]

-Every so often, you know, there used to be rumors that

Prince Andrew and Fergie were getting back together.

-Meanwhile, Andrew started going out with other women.

**

-After the marriage, he really sort of went into overdrive.

There were models, there were actresses.

-For any young woman, if you are asked out on a date

by Prince Andrew, you're probably not going to say no.

It all looked very glamorous.

-The first time that I met Prince Andrew

was on a double date.

You know, who wouldn't want to be at dinner

with Prince Andrew, you know?

Andrew's a masculine guy,

and the fact that he's flown planes

and he's like a real guy,

and I think women are attracted to that.

It was fun.

But we couldn't go into any place

without there being, you know, 20 photographers outside.

[ Photographers booing, shouting ]

-Prince Andrew was getting an awful lot of attention

and an awful lot of gossip,

which is exactly what he's not supposed to do.

-Thank you much.

-Morning. -Have you got The Independent?

-The Independent's sold out. Sorry.

-In the '90s, it was a tabloid sales frenzy.

-Sold out, sir. Sorry.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

If you could get a picture of Andrew with a new girlfriend,

it was worth a lot of money in those days.

And it would sail onto the front page.

**

-Andrew had finally moved into middle age.

He'd put on weight, he'd got greyer,

but he thought he was still the young Playboy Prince.

-The talk at the dinner parties was that,

you know, he couldn't keep his trousers closed.

**

-I'd been a sports injury massage therapist

for about ten years.

I got a phone call one Sunday just asking me

if I was available to come and do a home visit.

And I went to the Royal Lodge, and that was the first time

I met Prince Andrew.

His massage table was set up, but it was in a bedroom,

and again I said I don't tend to work in people's bedrooms.

That was completely unusual.

I didn't hear him come in,

but this male voice just announced,

"Great [bleep]. Do you take it up the [bleep]?"

And I shot up. I was absolutely astounded.

And I kind of spun 'round,

and he was sort of standing right up against me,

pretty much nose to nose almost, and thank God I just had

the wherewithal just to say,

you know, "None of your [bleep] business."

He then said, "You can't talk to me like that."

And I just said, "You can't talk to me like that."

But from then on in, it was just a lot of sexual innuendos,

lots of sex jokes, lost of talk about, you know,

asking me inappropriate questions about sex.

Every time I saw him, he'd try to hug me.

He'd sometimes try and kiss me.

Just a bit weird and creepy, to be honest.

And, quite frankly, a disgusting way to approach a woman.

-Andrew doesn't drink alcohol.

He's never smoked and he's never taken drugs.

But his one big thing is sex.

**

-My colleagues at Buckingham Palace,

we used to have the joke

that he should have a revolving door in his bedroom,

the amount of women that are going in and out of there.

It was just -- pssh! -- literally every other day

someone would be coming in to see him,

a different one every time.

-These stories started to appear with increasing rapidity.

-And I think for Prince Andrew, having witnessed the demise

of Princess Diana from the press, I think it was

a bit of, you know, "Why are the tabloids doing this to me?"

I think Prince Andrew genuinely believed

that he has his mother's standing.

We all know that even if the Queen

were to have a cocaine-fueled party,

we wouldn't report it, because everybody reveres the Queen.

The difference is, nobody loves Prince Andrew.

-The young Playboy Prince became this sour middle-aged man,

who was rude, who upset people.

And people would leak stories.

-On one occasion, a female turned up

and said that she was here to see Prince Andrew.

We apologized to the young lady and said, "Really sorry,

We can't let you in at the moment

until we can get confirmation from the staff."

So, she said, "That's fine.

Do you want me to ring him on my mobile?"

So, we said, "Yeah. That's fine."

She rang him, and we could hear the conversation.

Anyway, he said, "Put one of the officers on."

My colleagues took the phone.

He shouted at the top of his voice,

"Listen to me, you fat, lardy...

If you don't let my guest in, I'm gonna come down there."

So we just...

And she went bright red. She was embarrassed.

And we just let her in.

You would think a member of the royal family

would have some kind of decorum and respect for the staff

that are there and paid to protect them

and look after them, and there's none.

None at all. He's just a horrible person.

He's a bully.

-He became this sad couch potato

living in his grand but dingy apartment,

a certain grievance all the time about the fact

that he wasn't bigger and better than who he was,

and I think it kind of ate away at his soul, really.

-Prince Andrew's daily life in Britain

would be spent inspecting military parades,

cutting ribbons, opening fairs.

**

His life was probably quite dull.

-He was a sideshow. He wasn't rich enough.

He wasn't the heir to the throne.

Meanwhile, Epstein was very, very good

at making him feel that.

treating him as if he was a major, big deal.

-Jeffrey Epstein was awash with money,

and property all over the world,

and there were a lot of pretty girls around.

-But the privacy that Epstein offered --

the house in Manhattan, the private plane,

the private islands -- that, for Andrew, was heaven.

I mean, he was able to behave as badly as he wanted

behind closed doors.

-This entire sorry saga boils down to sex and greed.

Prince Andrew has never had a woman say no to him,

as far as we know.

But then we hear about Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

**

-[ Inhales deeply ] So...

I'd been working on sexual abuse cases for many years.

-This is the only lawsuit now filed

by one of Mr. Cosby's sexual assault victims...

And I represented four young girls

in the original litigation against Jeffrey Epstein.

It was incredibly surprising that Prince Andrew

would associate himself with somebody like that

and bring such an embarrassment upon the Crown.

But based upon his history,

it seems that Prince Andrew has lived his life

very similar to Jeffrey Epstein,

which is narcissistic.

He thinks he's infallible,

thinks that everyone will believe everything he says

and that he can basically do whatever he wants,

whenever he wants, without any consequence or recourse.

It only changed after Virginia came forward with her story.

-We turn next to a controversy shaking Britain's royal family.

Allegations in US federal court by Virginia Roberts.

-Roberts claims that she was forced to have sexual relations

with the Prince when she was a minor.

-The explosive claim blanketing Britain's front pages today.

-Virginia Roberts was taken under

Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's wing at a very young age,

around 15 years old.

They introduced her to people of notoriety,

and one of those people clearly was Prince Andrew.

-I was woken up by Ghislaine in the morning

and told I was going to meet a prince.

-Virginia was groomed and essentially

made to be a sexual slave of Jeffrey Epstein

and his friends, which included Prince Andrew.

-Ghislaine tells me in the car

that I have to do... what I do for Jeffrey

for Prince Andrew.

-It's completely inappropriate behavior

on behalf of someone like Prince Andrew

to even be put in a situation with a young girl.

-[ Crying ] Powerful people were allowing this to happen.

Not only allowing it to happen, but participating in it.

[ Sniffles ]

-When Virginia came out with her story regarding Prince Andrew,

I felt the same way about her story

that I originally had felt about the young women

that represented against Jeffrey Epstein.

-Do you want to stop for a wee second?

-If you don't mind. Just for a tissue. I'm sorry.

-I knew the royal family would attack her,

make her out as a liar.

All of the typical tactics that we saw in the Epstein saga,

I knew were going to happen to her, unfortunately,

probably tenfold, given who she was going up against.

-Britain's Prince Andrew is on the defensive this morning.

Buckingham Palace forcefully denying

the bombshell allegations.

-Not one, but an unprecedented four statements issued.

-Buckingham Palace comes out all guns blazing

and just denies, denies, denies.

-"Any suggestion of impropriety with underaged minors

is categorically untrue."

-I remember when the story broke,

Andrew was away skiing.

And he actually came back to almost direct operations

in the press office to make sure

that the wording was absolutely right.

-I just wish to reiterate and to reaffirm the statements

which have already been made on my behalf.

-He was, in effect, denying everything.

He wasn't in any of these locations,

he didn't have sex,

and he certainly didn't know who she was.

-And her evidence?

There's this photo from 2001 in London.

Roberts, 17 at the time, with Prince Andrew.

She says they had sex that night.

-As journalists, we say there's no words without a picture.

And there was this picture of very young 17-year-old Virginia

standing in Ghislaine Maxwell's home

with Andrew's pudgy fingers around her bare midriff.

-The original photographs that everyone saw

of just Prince Andrew and Epstein hanging out --

that's...poor judgment and character.

But when you actually place Andrew

with an underage young girl who then comes forward

and tells the story behind that photograph

and what had occurred to her,

that was the pivotal moment in changing the entire story

Was he just a bad judge of character?

Or was he instead an actual sexual abuser?

He was going to drag the entire royal family

into a disastrous circumstance.

-So, the Buckingham Palace machinery kicked into action

and shut the whole Virginia thing down.

-I've had this story for three years.

I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts.

We would not put it on the air.

First of all, I was told, "Who's Jeffrey Epstein?

No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story."

Um, then the Palace found out

that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew

and threatened us a million different ways.

-Power can be very scary to large news institutions

or television studios or whatnot,

and unfortunately what happens in sexual abuse oftentimes

is that it is a "he said, she said" story.

You have a young girl on the one hand,

and you have royalty on the other.

The press and the media have a healthy fear

of the repercussions of putting out a story.

And that fear really is what kept news media out

of not only the Prince Andrew story,

but as well, the Jeffrey Epstein story from the beginning.

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Train rumbling ]

[ Horns honking ]

I still remember it today. I was sleeping.

It was early in the morning.

I got a phone call from another attorney.

And he said, "Are you watching the news?"

-Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested.

-Arrested and charged with sex trafficking.

[ Camera shutters clicking ] -Good morning.

Today we announce the unsealing of sex trafficking charges

against Jeffrey Epstein.

If you have evidence or information,

we want to hear from you.

-When Epstein was re-arrested in 2019,

my first thought was, "What are the victims gonna think?"

I was hopeful that maybe the full story would come out

and these girls would finally see some justice done.

[ All chanting "Time's up!" ]

-2019 was like a new era.

[ Crowd cheering ]

-The Me Too social media campaign

against sexual harassment is now spilling into the streets.

-Women suddenly had a voice.

They were speaking out.

[ Camera shutters clicking, indistinct shouting ]

-Harvey Weinstein, a grotesque abuser of women,

had been convicted.

-The verdict a victory

for the Me Too movement and his accusers.

-Everybody thought, "At last, justice is about to be done."

-It was a completely different world

that that was entering into where people were now listening

to these women about their story.

-Epstein's arrest must have shaken a lot of people

who'd been involved with Epstein.

-Now we'll have to wait and see

whether Epstein is gonna name names.

-It is time for Jeffrey Epstein

and those who participated in these sex crimes

to be brought to justice.

-Epstein being arrested was a body blow for Andrew,

but that wasn't the worst thing that happened for him.

[ Siren wailing ]

-Breaking news out of New York --

Jeffrey Epstein is dead.

-When Epstein dies in jail,

everyone starts turning their sights to who's left behind --

people like Ghislaine Maxwell.

-And tonight, the whereabouts of Ghislaine Maxwell

still a mystery.

-When this story couldn't get any weirder,

Ghislaine simply vanished.

-Where is Ghislaine Maxwell?

-We don't know where she is.

-We don't know exactly where she is.

It sounds like she may be in Europe.

-This woman's just disappeared off the face of the Earth

and she's key to all of this.

-And that's when the story really started to blow up

for Prince Andrew.

-Suddenly Andrew found himself in the red-hot spotlight.

**

-The Daily Mail has got 10 questions here

that it believes the Palace should be answering.

-As the story began to unfold,

Prince Andrew took it upon himself to do an interview.

-His decision to do that interview

was the most unbelievable,

self-destructive decision you could possibly make.

I mean, Andrew strapped on a suicide vest

and sat down with one of the most forensic interviewers.

I was actually sweating on his behalf.

-It was a Saturday night in November.

I sat down on my sofa at my home in London

and, oh, I was just stunned.

-I'm just trying to work this out.

You were staying at the house --

-Yes. -...of a convicted sex offender?

-[ Sighs heavily ]

It was a convenient place to stay.

There's -- I-I mean, and I've gone through this

in my mind so many times.

And I-I admit fully that -- that --

that -- that my judgment was probably coloured

by my, um...

tendency to be too honorable.

But that's just the way it is.

-I watched the Newsnight interview

with growing disbelief, really.

-Do you regret the whole friendship with Epstein?

[ Inhales sharply, stammers ]

Now? Mm, ah, still not.

-I mean, there was a point where I wanted

to stuff my own fist in my mouth

and I was sort of like, "No! Oh, my God! Oh!"

-You threw a birthday party, um,

for Epstein's girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

-N-No...

It was a shooting weekend. -A shooting weekend?

-Just a straightforward --

straightforward shooting weekend.

-It was quite astonishing, the excuses he came up with.

-Here's the problem.

I've never seen Epstein with a camera in my life.

-Andrew said the picture of him with Virginia was fake.

-And that's a -- that's a picture of me.

It's not a picture of -- I don't believe

it's a picture of me in London,

because when I would go out -- when I go out in London,

I wear a suit and a tie.

-It was just, you know, great conspiracy theory.

-The photograph was taken upstairs,

and I don't think I ever went upstairs.

-You-- You're sure about that? -Yeah, because the --

because the -- because the dining room

and everything was on the -- was on the ground floor.

-That interview utterly ripped to shreds

every one of his excuses.

-You have to -- You have to understand that -- that...

I-I-I-I...I-I... [ Inhales sharply ]

But -- But... But I-I-I...

-Yeah.

-It essentially revealed him to the public

as absolutely beyond the pale.

-She described dancing with you. -No.

-And you profusely sweating. -[ Scoffs ]

-And that she went on to have a bath possibly --

-There's a slight problem with -- with -- with --

with -- with the sweating, um,

because I-I-I have a peculiar m-medical condition

which is that I don't sweat, um,

or I didn't sweat at the time, and that was...

Uh, was it...?

Yes, I didn't sweat at the time,

because I, um, h-had suffered what I would describe

as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War

when I was shot at...

-And then, of course, newspapers found pictures of him

wearing almost the same blue shirt

sweating, at that time.

And then, you know, there was the Pizza Express story,

-On that particular day, I was at home.

Uh, I was with the children, and I'd taken Beatrice

to, uh, a Pizza Express in Woking for a party.

-Why would you remember that so specifically?

Why would you remember a-a Pizza Express birthday

and being at home? -Because going to Pizza Express

in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do.

-Woking is a strange little town not far from Windsor.

And the idea of Prince Andrew picking his daughter up

from a Pizza Express in Woking became a joke.

-He can't remember meeting a woman

and having a photo with her,

but he can remember a pizza he had 18 years ago.

[ Laughter ]

-Saying that you went to Pizza Express

for a bit in the afternoon

isn't an alibi to cover the whole evening.

It has "express" in the title.

[ Laughter ]

**

-Prince Andrew is an idiot

for having agreed to have done the interview.

I would've put my foot firmly down and said, "Don't do it.

You're not allowed to do it."

-Andrew thought that his word would be taken as gospel.

He later actually told his mother

that it had gone rather well.

-Andrew thought, "Ah, I've got a vehicle.

I can justify my friendship and I can clear my name."

Well, he didn't justify his friendship,

and he certainly didn't clear his name.

-Backlash this morning.

-Did you watch the interview?

-This interview sparking an immediate firestorm.

-Absolute car crash.

-The headlines have been scathing.

A "car crash," "toe-curling," "insane"

were some of the quotes.

-Prince Andrew may have hoped to answer the burning questions.

Instead, he's poured gas on the flames.

**

[ Birds chirping ]

-After the Newsnight interview,

the Queen went riding with him in Windsor Great Park,

knowing the photographers were there.

The Queen is very canny. She's not an idiot at all.

She wanted to support him.

And she decided that she believed what her son told her.

**

-Right after the interview that Prince Andrew gave,

the US Attorneys' office made it abundantly clear

that they wanted to speak with him.

-The Southern District of New York

and the FBI have contacted Prince Andrew's attorneys

and requested to interview Prince Andrew.

And to date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation.

-If Prince Andrew was already feeling the heat,

imagine how he felt when Ghislaine was found hiding.

-At 8:30 this morning, federal agents

zeroed in on this New Hampshire house,

where they arrested Ghislaine Maxwell.

-People speculated that Ghislaine had tapes

that, you know, Jeffrey Epstein had made that she was gonna use

and was her "get out of jail free" card.

Andrew must have been terrified.

-A yellow US-style bus drove past Buckingham Palace

in a move designed to press the Prince

to help authorities investigate Jeffrey Epstein.

-If Prince Andrew was truly innocent,

he should've been stepping forward and telling the truth

to the US Attorneys and the prosecutors

because he was an integral witness.

So, if he was innocent, he should have talked.

But he didn't. And Virginia filed her lawsuit.

-New legal trouble for Britain's Prince Andrew.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

is now suing the son of Queen Elizabeth.

-I'm calling BS on this, because that's what it is.

-Virginia was determined now to hit back.

-I won't stop fighting, I will never be silenced,

until these people are brought to justice.

-It's a testament to Virginia's strength

that over the years she has been consistent with her story.

And yet, at the same time,

you see an incredible inconsistency by Prince Andrew.

-I think she'd been goaded for so long

that she was like, "Right. I'll sue him too."

[ Birds chirping ]

Meanwhile, Prince Andrew was determined

to avoid this lawsuit.

-They couldn't serve the papers,

because he was hiding up at Balmoral.

-Prince Andrew claimed the visit to Balmoral

was just a normal visit,

but during that time, his first grandchild was born

back down in London.

He did not leave the Queen's estate

to see his first grandchild.

He seemed to think that if he refused to accept

the paperwork, that would be good enough.

-But this evening, at a virtual hearing

of this New York courthouse,

a judge will be told that Ms. Giuffre's legal team

did serve the necessary papers on the royal,

and the clock should now be ticking.

-Then he came out with some ludicrous statement --

"Well, I'm going to go to court."

He obviously wasn't listening to anybody.

He was a bit like a hare running into the headlights,

not knowing which way to run.

-Prince Andrew hired incredibly expensive lawyers

to defend Virginia's lawsuit.

They lodged all kinds of attacks

against her complaint that were filed --

things such as the statute of limitations,

the fact that she wasn't a resident here

because she had moved to Australia,

the fact Prince Andrew was a foreign dignitary

and could not be sued because of his status.

-But the judge was having none of it.

He said no.

You know, "This case is gonna happen."

-Prince Andrew has failed in his bid

to get a civil case dismissed by a US judge.

-Prince Andrew, will you cooperate

with lawyers in America?

-The Palace ultimately saw

this was an absolute unmitigated disaster.

There was no way that they could come back from that.

And at that point, they had to distance

themselves from Prince Andrew.

-Will you recover from this, sir?

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-The Queen loves her son

and she has very much supported him

by being seen with him.

But she's also aware of the public feeling against him.

-After the Newsnight interview, the Queen saw that

Prince Andrew had the potential to damage the institution.

To her, the institutional monarchy is more important

than safeguarding some of the stupid things

that your children have done.

So she took the decision to effectively fire him.

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-Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Andrew

is returning his royal and military titles to the Queen.

-She decided to strip Andrew of all his appointments

and fire him from front-line royal duties.

-He is no longer a functioning member

of the public royal family...

-And will no longer be referred to as His Royal Highness.

-Royal commentators call the decision damage control.

-Given everything that has happened

since Prince Andrew appeared on television,

the Queen had little choice.

-That's very difficult for any mother to do,

but she saw the need to do it

because at the end of the day, the buck stops with her.

And it's the same thing with Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

There was nobody going to let him appear in court.

-Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre

have reached an out-of-court settlement.

-The sum of which is not being disclosed.

-A clear sign the disgraced royal wants to put this case

and the controversy behind him.

-I think Prince Andrew must have been in pieces,

because he's always gotten his own way.

-That must have been a very hard pill to swallow.

Not just settling, but how was he going to settle?

Because he didn't have the money.

All sorts of figures were bandied about --

$10 million, $15 million, $20 million.

We don't know.

-And there were reports that said

that part of the bill was covered by the Queen herself.

-It was obviously substantial, but...

it does beg the question, doesn't it?

I mean, he claimed he didn't know her,

but why are you paying somebody you don't know?

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-Andrew refuses to accept today that he's done.

I mean, he really believes that he can come back,

because as a prince and as a son of the Queen,

everything always has really gone his way.

-His mother still loves him,

but does his older brother love him?

[ All speaking indistinctly ]

-The question is what happens when Prince Charles takes over?

Or Prince William, who I know and I've heard

has no time for this at all.

[ All speaking indistinctly ]

-It's a big dilemma for the monarchy,

what to do to stash, frankly, a very healthy,

62-year-old man who lives a stone's throw

from Windsor Castle and doesn't want to go anywhere.

-He can't work.

He can't represent the royal family.

-He's not been found guilty of any crime.

But he's been sentenced by the court of public opinion.

And the court of public opinion is important

because they are the people

who decide whether the monarchy is retained or not.

-He's out in the cold.

-It's important to remember that Prince Andrew is not a victim.

I think he would like us to think he's a victim.

But he was a very active participant in his own demise.

Not only did he make bad choices,

but morally questionable choices.

And only he is to blame for his behavior.

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[ Indistinct conversations ]

-Let them through, please!

-[ Speaking Spanish ]

-This is a key moment for the victims.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Prince Andrew's accuser.

-Today was a towering day for justice.

-If there's one person in this entire sordid story

who has the information

that could terrify Andrew, it's Ghislaine.

-I think any of the coconspirators

that have been involved in this trafficking ring

have to be very nervous right now.

-Ghislaine will appeal this case,

and we are confident that she will prevail on appeal.

-I don't think that Ghislaine

wants to spend the rest of her life in prison

so some wealthy men can get away with it.

-I think that anyone who was involved with Jeffrey Epstein,

which includes Prince Andrew,

should be nervous about Ghislaine Maxwell talking.

She is really the person that holds all the secrets.

This really isn't the end of the story.

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