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Poor ol’ Prince Andrew.

His most staunch defender is no longer around following the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and the wolves are at the door.

The likes of then-Prince Charles, now King Charles III, and Prince William have made it pretty clear that they are keen to minimise the Duke of York’s involvement in all royal affairs.

Not the kind of affair Charles had while married to Diana. We won’t speak of that, but The Crown sure will.

A recent update to the Royal Family’s website, carried out to reflect the order of succession following the Queen’s death, saw Prince Andrew relegated to the bottom of the page alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Worse still, royal expert Nigel Cawthorne reckons Andrew could be reduced to “nothing more than the royal dog walker-in-chief” under the reign of King Charles.

The timing of the Queen’s passing was certainly good news for the producers of Banished: Prince Andrew, which debuted last night on Peacock.

Suffice to say, via The Daily Beast’s description, he might be breaking a sweat in a Pizza Hut somewhere:

…director Jamie Crawford’s feature-length documentary takes the late Queen Elizabeth II’s second son to the proverbial toolshed, slamming him so repeatedly and thoroughly that one almost expects a referee to materialize to call the fight off. It’s character assassination of the most brutal, and deserved, kind…

“The problem is, the man’s an idiot,” declares former royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter, adding “There’s always one runt of the litter, and Andrew was it.”

Sheesh – here we were thinking being called a ‘sweaty nonce’ was bad.

Other insults hurled his way included “brat”, “very spoiled”, and “infantilised”. That last one is pretty apt when you consider how he hid away at his mom’s numerous castles to avoid giving a statement in the now-settled civil case against him brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

We’ll have a quick look at the trailer before we continue with the name-calling:

One source described the documentary as “the final nail in his coffin” and Paul Page, a now-retired Royal Protection Officer, described Andrew as “just a horrible person, a bully”.

The Queen, unwittingly at first, helped create the man-toddler:

From his birth in 1960, Andrew was doted on by his mother, who felt guilty about having not been consistently present for her first two children, Charles and Anne.

This bred in Andrew an air of great privilege, and it was furthered by the fact that he was the sort of athletic, gregarious, and charming young man that his father Philip always wanted, and which set him apart from his studious, serious older brother.

Following his service in the Falklands War, Andrew was labelled Britain’s most eligible bachelor and settled down with Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson.

That didn’t last too long and then along came Ghislaine Maxwell. The royal would visit her regularly in New York City and it’s often speculated that the two were romantically involved.

Maxwell introduced Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein and the rest is history:

Epstein also provided Andrew with lots and lots of young girls. Banished: Prince Andrew recaps its subject’s long history of womanizing—which was so rampant that it led some to believe he was a sex addict—in order to contextualize Giuffre’s accusations against him as the byproduct, and culmination, of a lifelong pattern of behavior.

Rather than just “oafish” and “rude,” he was an apparent pedophilic predator who sought out Epstein’s company because the financier and convicted sex offender could give him precisely what he wanted, with Maxwell as the glue that held them together.

Do you reckon Andrew will give it a watch?

Maybe while he lies in his bed, surrounded by 50 to 60 teddy bears, immaculately arranged by ‘the help’.

To add further woe, it’s believed that Maxwell may start to cooperate in prison in order to reduce her sentence.

She’s currently serving 20 years for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse dozens of young women. Spencer Kuvin, who represented nine of Epstein’s accusers, states in the documentary that she has until June of next year to spill the beans.

Here’s The Daily Mail:

Currently in FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal prison in Florida’s capital, she has said she intends to appeal her sentence.

Kuvin said she could be intending on cooperating, in a bid to reduce her lengthy sentence.

‘She is really the person who holds all the secrets,’ said Kuvin, speaking as part of a new Peacock documentary ‘Prince Andrew: Banished’, which was broadcast on Wednesday night.

‘This isn’t the end of the story.’

Go on, Ghislaine.

Sing like a caged bird and take them all down with you.

Start with the runt of the Queen’s litter and don’t stop until you burn the place to the ground.

[sources:dbeast&dmail]