Jeffrey, Andrew, Charles.

Well there goes another day. Strange one. The day the ex-duke was arrested on his birthday, a day after mine. He 66, me 77, both multiples of the notorious 11 so prominant in most of the terror events we have been subject to since '9/11'. It takes me back to 1960 and 1971, 1982 and 1993.

Besides Andrew now being questioned about passing sensitive state information to Jeffrey Epstein, a trafficker of girls, and no doubt boys if required, for the sexual pleasure of rich men, for the purpose of influence and control, it puts the Monarchy in the most precarious position it has been in since the death of Diana, and before that, Edward VIII's abdication. 

Central to that has been the Palace's attempts under both Queen Elizabeth and King Charles, to cover up Andrew's behaviour over decades, culminating in paying to the late Virginia Guiffre, formerly Roberts, a female he claimed he had never met or known, twelve million pounds as a settlement for her civil case against him. 

It is clear Andrew had a voracious sexual appetite. Not for nothing was he called 'Randy Andy' from the 1980's onwards. It was satisfied by women who provided such services professionally. This was obviously known to the Police and Palace Authorities but not shared to the public for obvious reputational reasons. One Palace Policeman, Paul Page, has given many interviews, claiming that young women visited Andrew on a regular basis late at night at Buckingham Palace itself.

Clearly this risky behaviour was not controlled but it must have been monitored, as, at great public expense he was provided with constant and close personal Police protection. 

Thus the scandal is not just a personal one for Andrew, but reaches to his mother the Queen, his brother the King and the highest reaches of the Political Establishment. 

Despite this well-known reputation, Tony Blair on the recommendation apparently of the then Buisness Secretary Peter Mandelson, he was appointed as the Department of Trade Trade Envoy in 2001 and served in that position, travelling the world, until 2011. 

It is in connection with this role and how he handled trade sensitive and confidential information, that he is now being interviewed under caution  by Thames Valley Police,  not it should be noted in connection his sexual activities. But it is the shadow of the latter, particularly in the context of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, that haunts the story. 

Andrew's claim when interviewed by the BBC's Emily Maitlis seven years ago, that the photo of him with his arm around the then seventeen year old Virginia Roberts, taken by Jeffrey Epstein at Gislaine Maxwell's London House, was a fake and he had never been there or met her (the late Virginia claims in her book they had sex three times at different locations) has been proved by the Epstein Paper's and Gislaine Maxwell's testimony to be a lie.

Of course the Palace must have known this at the time via its Police and MI5 sources, but chose not to reveal the fact, effectively protecting the then Duke of York. 

Inevitably therefore this unseely matter will not stop with the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The damage will creep out and up, probably making the King's position untenable. 

Consenting sex with adults, either hetero- or homo-sexual is not a crime. Sex without consent and sex with under-age persons, is. However Epstein was well known to prefer under age females - he denied at his civil deposition that he was either homo- or bi-sexual - and was convicted of sex with a minor in 2008 in a so-called "sweet heart deal".

Given the very close - despite his denial of such - connection between the Duke and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, with Epsein, both before and after the conviction, the question still remains whether Andrew Mountbatten Windsor engaged in illegal sexual relations with girls either in Britain or America? The following released photograph certainly raises questions.

Given the fact that in these matters he has been proved to lie, his long-held denials carry less weight. 

The ramifications of his and others', in particular Peter Mandelson's, association with Jeffrey Epstein can only get wider, deeper and more profound for both Government and Monarchy. There is no doubting this has become a pivotal moment in British constitutional history, that impinges on the survival of the Monarchy itself. The nation and world awaits the outcome.

Claimed to be a genuine image from the Epstein Files. It needs to be explained.

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