{"id":573446,"date":"2025-11-16T05:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573446\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T05:01:22","slug":"andrews-despicable-behavior-was-enabled-at-the-highest-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/573446\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew\u2019s Despicable Behavior Was \u2018Enabled\u2019 at the Highest Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the Queen\u2019s fault that Andrew turned out the way he has, argues legendary journalist, Tina Brown. <\/p>\n

Brown, who has published two books on the Royal Family, told The New York Times podcast The Interview<\/a> that the late British monarch bears responsibility for the behavior of her now-blacklisted son.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is that she has quite a lot to answer for with Andrew, is the truth,\u201d Brown told Lulu Garcia-Navarro. \u201cBecause the Queen enabled Andrew in a really terrible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PrinceQueen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, an Prince Andrew at Epsom Racecourse on June 4, 2016 in Epsom, England. Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Andrew\u2014formerly \u201cPrince,\u201d \u201cMountbatten-Windsor\u201d\u2014was stripped of his royal titles and evicted from Royal Lodge by his brother, King Charles, at the start of the month. <\/p>\n

The 65-year-old former prince has long battled accusations that he sexually assaulted Virginia Giuffre when she was a teenager during his friendship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was her favorite,\u201d Brown said of Andrew\u2019s relationship to Queen Elizabeth II. \u201cShe protected him and mummy was his only client, essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was the one who protected him so, unfortunately, it made him worse,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

\"PrincePrince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell. Virginia Roberts Giuffre\/Fair Use <\/p>\n

While Andrew has repeatedly denied the allegations\u2014including in one infamous BBC interview where he claimed he was unable to sweat\u2014the ongoing reputational damage to the Royal Family appeared to reach a tipping point for Buckingham Palace. <\/p>\n

Brown was editor-in-chief of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair before co-founding the Daily Beast in 2008. <\/p>\n

Her two books, The Diana Chronicles and The Palace Papers, draw on her extensive experience covering the Royal Family, but she acknowledged that most Royal commentators don\u2019t dare to link the late queen with Andrew\u2019s controversies. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Queen was there for 70 years, right? The hagiography around the Queen is intense, you know? I mean, you\u2019re not allowed to ever criticize the queen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the sweeping changes that Prince William is \u201cjust dying\u201d to implement when he takes the throne, Brown noted that she expects serious reform to avoid any further Andrew-like situations in the future.<\/p>\n

\"PrinceAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor at Windsor Castle, UK, 12 Sep. 2025. Shutterstock\/Shutterstock <\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s just dying to clean house, actually. Some of the palaces probably have to be turned over to the public. I mean, how much over housing do you need in that family?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

While Andrew has officially been removed from his previous residence, he has been relocated to the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. <\/p>\n

The 20,000-acre estate has a number of royal homes, and his accommodations will be privately funded by Charles.<\/p>\n

Although the move is seen as decisive, royal commentators say<\/a> it is unlikely to end public scrutiny of Andrew and his relationship with Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Queen\u2019s fault that Andrew turned out the way he has, argues legendary journalist, Tina Brown. Brown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[2204,21438,1763,5105,7710,519,11571,448,181874],"class_list":{"0":"post-573446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","9":"tag-prince-andrew-duke-of-york","10":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","11":"tag-royal","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royalist","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-virginia-roberts-giuffre"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115557622508697520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}