Camilla takes disgraced Prince Andrew's titles: Queen consort becomes Colonel of the Grenadier Guards as the King shakes up royals and gives the Princess of Wales first Army role

Even though he does come across as rather pompous, I can't help feel sorry for Prince Andrew. After all he was in the military and saw active service.

Alan Dershowitz thinks Prince Andrew was misadvised or didn't take advice in deciding to pay off Virginia Giuffre.

Alan Dershowitz: 'Prince Andrew should not have paid Virginia off

... Dershowitz said that he believed that Giuffre had dropped her case at the urging of her lawyers, after he had painstakingly gathered travel and other records.

These, he said, irrefutably proved he could not possibly have been in the exotic places where she claimed to have had sex with him, including the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island and New Mexican ranch.

Dershowitz told the JC that he believed that she knew her credibility would be “ripped to shreds” if she proceeded to trial.

“She claimed to have had sex with me on seven specific occasions when I have never met her in my life and I have the documents to prove it,” he said during the interview in Tel Aviv.

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“Prince Andrew’s lawyers should have looked much more carefully at Giuffre’s credibility and probed very deeply into it,” Dershowitz told the JC.

“It was critical to look carefully at everything she has said regarding the Epstein case, and that would include the accusations against Andrew. Paying her money in this situation will be seen by many as an admission of guilt.

“Even on legal grounds alone, Andrew should not have agreed to settle. The law was on Andrew’s side, the case could have been dismissed. She claimed she was living in Colorado when she has been living in Australia for the last 20 years.”

To bring a lawsuit in a US federal court against a non-American or non-resident, as Giuffre did against Andrew, the plaintiff has to be living in America at the time of launching the case, explains Dershowitz.

“Andrew was not well advised,” he said. “Or if he was, he rejected the advice.

“Quite possibly, he was pressured by his late mother into making a settlement in the hope the whole thing would go away and he could return to royal duties.”
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Jo wrote:
Camilla takes disgraced Prince Andrew's titles: Queen consort becomes Colonel of the Grenadier Guards as the King shakes up royals and gives the Princess of Wales first Army role

Even though he does come across as rather pompous, I can't help feel sorry for Prince Andrew. After all he was in the military and saw active service.

Alan Dershowitz thinks Prince Andrew was misadvised or didn't take advice in deciding to pay off Virginia Giuffre.

Alan Dershowitz: 'Prince Andrew should not have paid Virginia off

... Dershowitz said that he believed that Giuffre had dropped her case at the urging of her lawyers, after he had painstakingly gathered travel and other records.

These, he said, irrefutably proved he could not possibly have been in the exotic places where she claimed to have had sex with him, including the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island and New Mexican ranch.

Dershowitz told the JC that he believed that she knew her credibility would be “ripped to shreds” if she proceeded to trial.

“She claimed to have had sex with me on seven specific occasions when I have never met her in my life and I have the documents to prove it,” he said during the interview in Tel Aviv.

...

“Prince Andrew’s lawyers should have looked much more carefully at Giuffre’s credibility and probed very deeply into it,” Dershowitz told the JC.

“It was critical to look carefully at everything she has said regarding the Epstein case, and that would include the accusations against Andrew. Paying her money in this situation will be seen by many as an admission of guilt.

“Even on legal grounds alone, Andrew should not have agreed to settle. The law was on Andrew’s side, the case could have been dismissed. She claimed she was living in Colorado when she has been living in Australia for the last 20 years.”

To bring a lawsuit in a US federal court against a non-American or non-resident, as Giuffre did against Andrew, the plaintiff has to be living in America at the time of launching the case, explains Dershowitz.

“Andrew was not well advised,” he said. “Or if he was, he rejected the advice.

“Quite possibly, he was pressured by his late mother into making a settlement in the hope the whole thing would go away and he could return to royal duties.”
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It seems that Meghan Markle was on the witness list.
The yacht photos and messages from someone hoping to "hire" her (again) demonstrates the link between her, her best "friend" Markus Anderson of Soho house, and Epstein/Maxwell.

I have no idea what her evidence might have been, but it might explain why Harry and Meghan have (strangely for blabbermouths) never mentioned his Godfather/uncle at all, if Andrew settled primarily to protect her.

Oh, on a happier note, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent is keeping his role as Colonel of the Scots guards, which tells us that his health must be ok.