I wondered if I had completely lost my remaining marbles when I read the news today (oh boy). A headline saying that contestants in the TV show I’m A Celebrity would no longer be eating live insects was bizarre enough. My first thought was simple: why would anyone either want to eat insects, live or dead, and why would anyone want to see them eat it on the telly? There speaks your baffled blogger who has never seen the show and never will. If that seemed more than a little bonkers, it was nothing compared to what I felt after Prince Andrew announced that one of the reasons he continued to stay with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was because he was “too honourable”.
You must remember the photograph of Andrew walking side by side with a man who, a few years before, was found guilty of soliciting a minor for prostitution. But there was equally bad stuff to come. Andrew’s memory was fading too.
There is another photograph of Andrew next to 17 year old Virginia Roberts. Roberts, now called Giuffre, who was supposed to have been forced to have sex with him. “It didn’t happen. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever,” said Andrew. As denials go, I’d say that was not particularly strong one. I appreciate it happened (allegedly) in 2001 but that’s hardly that long ago. It’s a non denial denial. And Randy Andy has opened a can of worms with that strange reply. He didn’t do anything, but he “let the side down”. What an astonishing choice of words for something so serious. “I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady” does not mean the same as “I have never met this lady:”, does it?
With the Queen approaching her 94th birthday, thoughts start to wander as to what happens when she dies. Understandably, she is becoming very frail, like her 98 year old husband Prince Phillip who these days is only capable of writing off his 4X4. Prince Charles, who hardly anyone likes, is going to step into her shoes. I cannot imagine any circumstances in which the public will regard Charles and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles with any great affection. It might weaken the monarchy to the point where no one cares whether they exist or not. Andrew’s sexual exploits fit in very nicely with this most dysfunctional family.
Perhaps Andrew learned more from his father than we previously knew. After all, the old boy was forever making ‘unfortunate’ comments, like “I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.” Prince Andrew’s dead friend knew a thing or two about underaged prostitutes. Phillip of Corfu might have been a bit smarter than we all realised. Andrew must just be a bit more stupid. And certainly not honourable.
