Prince Edward first royal to speak out after bombshell Epstein files release
Prince Edward has urged the public to ‘remember the victims’ after the recent release of more Jeffrey Epstein files.
At the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the Duke of Edinburgh became the first royal to address the damning files, and began by brushing off a question about how he felt about the new revelations.
‘I’m not sure this is the audience that is probably the least bit interested in that,’ he said.
‘They all came here to listen to education, solving the future, but no, I think it’s all really important always to remember the victims, and who are the victims in all this?’
Edward’s remarks come days after photos of his older brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, showed the former royal crouched on all fours over a woman.
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The three pictures show a man believed to be the disgraced former duke looming over the woman, who is lying sprawled on the floor.
He stares directly into the camera in another scene and places his hand on her abdomen in the third.
Emails between Epstein and his former sister-in-law, Sarah Ferguson, also showed that she told Epstein to ‘marry her’.
The paedophile had just served a year behind bars for soliciting a child for prostitution before making a ‘sweetheart’ deal for his freedom when the former Duchess of York reportedly visited in July 2009, the files showed.
Beatrice and Eugenie would have been just 20 and 19 at the time of the lunch in his Palm Beach mansion, where he was ordered to live under house arrest.
Elsewhere in the document dump, screenshots and scans appear to show the former prince exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein about a ‘beautiful’ Russian woman and invited him to Buckingham Palace.
Andrew previously claimed to have cut contact with Epstein after an investigation was launched in 2006, only getting back in touch to end their relationship in person in late 2010.
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