As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is once more pictured out driving after days of controversy, Chris Riches asks if he is intentionally sending a sign to the world.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor rides his horse on Monday (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid)
For the reason that newest Jeffrey Epstein revelations exploded final weekend Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been seen stress-free on horseback near his Royal Lodge residence. When humiliated daughter Princess Beatrice met her shamed dad final month together with her four-year-old daughter Sienna – to criticism from some royal followers for her misguided loyalty – Andrew was once more out driving.
Guess what the once-prince was doing after he was stripped of his royal titles and honours final October? You bought it – galloping on his steed round Windsor. What about when there was outcry final April after Andrew made his first public look in a 12 months on the King’s Easter church service? Yup – he was seen out driving and laughing.
Final quiz query – what do you reckon he was as much as on December 13 final 12 months, the identical day he misplaced his vice-admiral honorary army rank? You bought it, he was AGAIN photographed out driving.
Slightly than serving to US senators and Epstein victims by revealing all he knew concerning the useless American, he appears happier trotting round Berkshire.
Andrew – who strenuously denies any unlawful behaviour or data of any criminality – has been repeatedly accused of conceitedness and bluster however he’s not silly.
The previous Duke of York is aware of after every of those huge information occasions the gaze of the world’s media is on him. He is aware of they’re determined to see how he reacts.
Will they snap Andrew trying heartbroken at his ill-judged previous affiliation with the paedophile? Will Andrew be in tears pondering of the evil American’s poor victims?
Not solely that, however no matter he’s seen doing is a mirrored image additionally on his older brother the King and the whole Royal Household.
And nearer to residence – what he does displays on the notion round his two harmless daughters Beatrice and Eugenie and their younger kids and households.
So why he openly chooses to all the time be seen to be having fun with what many see because the image of wealth and privilege – galloping a horse round your mansion’s expansive grounds – is damning.
It is as if Andrew merely would not care – he is sticking two fingers up on the US Epstein investigators, Epstein’s victims and the Royal Household.
Final weekend we needed to endure photographs of ‘Randy Andy’ on all fours on the ground, along with his hand on a lady mendacity on her again.
God is aware of what he was doing – I doubt it was an annual CPR resuscitation first help refresher course.
Now, with that unsettling new picture, Andrew is again within the highlight however may change the narrative fully, take possession of his shameless relationship with Epstein and previous lies over when he reduce off hyperlinks to the pervert.
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Sadly he is too busy larking about on the again of a nag.
It isn’t an excellent look – however an image is value a thousand phrases, and that claims all of it.
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