I really fail to understand the attitudes taken by Royal Family supporters here.
If I supported them – and I readily admit that I don’t – I would be mortified by what’s going on and quite deeply angry with Prince Andrew for bring them into disrepute.
Even if he did not sexually abuse a child there are still several factors that are beyond doubt.
He openly consorted with known child sex offenders.
He invited one of the to his daughter’s 18th birthday party (just say that slowly to yourself – his daughter's 18th birthday party) a month after they had been charged with solicitation.
He attended parties on a private island, know to locals as” paedophile island”.
He made a transatlantic trip and stayed at the house of a convicted sex offender for three days because, he said, “it was a convenient place to stay”.
He claimed to have offered himself as a witness to be refused by the US Department of Justice which they – the US government, not the lawyers, the government – denied with the words “…falsely portray himself as … willing to cooperate”.
And even if you now come back with the argument – “well we don’t know that he knew what he was doing” (which shows a staggering lack of awareness both on his part and of the staff I assume we pay to ensure he knows these things) just ask: what sort of deeply creepy rich and famous person attends parties with teenage runaway girls?