Mandy wanted Andy to be the trade envoy and recommended him to Blair. Charles said no, don't appoint him. Blair ignored Charles.
(I think McSweeney was too young to be advising Starmer. He had no idea what a liar and fraudster Mandelson was. You need to be older and wiser to be advising the PM).
I think it is a shame that Andrew and Harry did not continue with their military careers. They were both at their best when they had a proper job to do showing courage and leadership and joining in the camaraderie of belonging to a group. When all this had gone for them they were both lost and the clock could not be turned back. Just as many who leave the military end up homeless and on the streets, never having known a proper adult home life, missing the helping hand of the military institution, so too have Andrew and Harry and both have become totally lost. They were more or less in the way as far as the Royal Family went.
Men like Jeffrey Epstein attract followers like moths around a candle. He lied about his investment qualifications and landed jobs with the big investment houses when he was young, lied about universities and certificates. He hoodwinked Wexner and made millions in stealing from his businesss, Wexner did not press charges. Why? Epstein robbed Wexner of $46M so it is said.
I can see why Epstein attracted Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Ghislaine Maxwell. Both were lost souls. Maxwell lost her father without warning. He had been her life. Epstein attracted her, swept her off her feet, gave her money, was flamboyant, made her smile again. So much was she impressed that she would stand outside Florida high schools for him at end of the school day and promising $200 a time she recruited girls for him. Some were only 14 and all of them thought $200 dollars was great. I may have said this before but anyone who knows Ghislaine Maxwell as a Maxwell in the family business, and I did because they were high profile when I was broking, her and her brothers, there is no way anyone could have foreseen that this is what she would end up doing. She was always on her father's arm, she was going to take over, she had been to Oxford, she was a businesswoman in the Maxwell empire. Mind you Maxwell father was no saint and was crude and quite uncouth and after he died we found out he had robbed the Daily Mirror pension fund.
When anybody wants to cover up for Maxwell and feel sorry for her, please don't. Jail is the right place for her. Andrew is being investigated for misconduct in public life along with Mandelson. It is sickening that at the time of the financial crash in Britain Mandelson was so pathetic and so shallow that he wanted to make friends and look big by feeding highly sensitive information - way out of order for a man in public office. Ditto for Andrew who had been entrusted by Blair to act in the best interest of Britain.
Although it is widely said that the monarchy will survive this, it is now very damaged. The nation may be split but I think it will be difficult to defend anything about it. However much Charles expels and rids us of Andrew the damage has been done and the cleaning up job will never make Andrew fade completely. There is still Harry who is a stain on the Royals with his very silly wedding bride, his pinching of the name Lilibet which was an insult to our late Queen Elizabeth and his wandering around like a lost soul still wanting money and position and respect. I have no respect for him or Andrew. William coming along with a lovely wife, Catherine, but William is a stupid, dangerous, ignorant boy too big for his boots and full of empty sanctimony. I will not be bowing and scraping to him either..
An interesting analysis of Epstein and the Royals. I thought William was more grounded than the rest of them. Maybe not.
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