Was it just friendship – or was it blackmail? And who was blackmailing who?

Don’t be too easily persuaded that the Prince Andrew/Jeffrey Epstein saga is chiefly a sex scandal: while the braindead MSM continues to focus on sex, the royal son has little or nothing to fear from vexatious suits brought by young ladies years after the event. As I tried to explain last week,

‘….Such allegations as exist regarding the royal son and an attractive young woman are technical: the age of consent in Miami is 17. Myself and hundreds of millions of others around the world would not regard that as abuse of a minor, and definitely not paedophilia. But I do suspect the Palace may have dropped a clanger by issuing such a studiedly specific denial…’

I think that latter point above would today get general approval. But from Day One, the Palace decided to see…