from Elizabeth’s favourite to Windsor’s disgrace | EUROtoday

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For years he was “the favorite son” of the late Queen Elizabeth II, vacuous, boastful and good-looking, protected by her towards all the pieces and everybody. The Epstein scandal, nevertheless, has grow to be his nemesis: the mark of infamy destined to definitively model the previous Prince Andrew as a shame of the House of Windsor, the primary British royal of excessive lineage to finish up in arrest after virtually 4 centuries (and on his 66th birthday) for alleged severe crimes.

A sensational epilogue, of historic significance, regardless of the sordid situation of the affair that led him into the mud and threatens the very way forward for the monarchical establishment throughout the Channel.

Against the backdrop of the black parable of a person born a prince by blood, and but a cadet prince: by no means in a position to give himself a real function in life past the declare of honours, comforts, cash, luxuries or varied plumes.

Third son of Elizabeth and Philip – after the longer term king Charles III and Anne, and earlier than the youthful Edward – Andrew was born at Buckingham Palace on February 19, 1960. He attended highschool in Gordonstoun, Scotland. alma mater of the daddy.

However, he was not enrolled at college, as an alternative being assigned to programs at a naval academy Marina. At the identical time, the picture of a prince begins to construct playboy.