Even if true, and I won't die on the hill about the authenticity of the photo, it would only prove she met Andrew.
Irrelevant. You have made numerous assertions and claim that the evidence will be forthcoming Real Soon Now.
If you won't even absorb these bits of info and follow the sources and document dumps and court cases I pulled them from, I've even cited the page numbers so you won't have to read pages and pages of boring "Epstein files". What good is it to prod anyone to read them? What I've said sounds strange only because the mainstream media and alt media have decided they won't cover the skeptical perspective.
And yet, the sum of £12 million was paid.
And yet Andrew never had to admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
Nothing unusual in that, it's probably the default in most similar civil cases when an agreement is reached outside of a court imposed sanction.
Indeed; what would be the point of paying out that much and still admitting you did it.
You have made limited references to elements of court cases and extrapolated from there. This is not evidence of your assertions.
But it's worth pointing out if you're assuming that settling is an admission of guilt. Is there something unreasonable about that given Andrew and the royal family's circumstances in late 2021 to early 2022? He did demand a trial shortly before settling, but there are media reports that it wasn't fully up to him, which is believable.
The court cases ARE the "Epstein files" for the most part. What do you expect?
Oh SURE. Andrew's continued relationship with Epstein after he was released from jail in 2009 is the reason he's been stripped of his titles, not the constant bombardment over the last decade from lunatics motivated by Satanic pedophile conspiracy theories. Do you really believe the Andrew story would remain alive if it wasn't for Virginia, that fountain of truth?
Her allegations didn't make him say a bunch of disastrously stupid things on Newsnight. Her allegations didn't make him lie about when he ended his relationship with Epstein.
He seemed unprepared for the The Newsnight interview yes, but it was conducted almost entirely from Virginia Roberts' perspective ffs.
He almost certainly had the questions given to him in advance. Hence his carefully rehearsed eye-rolling, frowns, glares, faux-indignation and ready lies. The ease of his auto-denials (for example, denying he could ever 'sweat' owing to his heroics in the Falklands) showed this is a character to whom lying comes naturally and has done it all his life.
What it actually showed was an inability to listen to advice. He shouldn't have agreed to the interview in the first place, but, having done so, could have simply said he had no recollection of the events, as seems to be the standard get-out these days, rather than producing stories of Pizza Express and the inability to sweat. A bit of regret about his relationship with Epstein would also not have gone amiss. He's been indulged his whole life and is not able to accept responsibility for his actions.
AIUI It was his daughter Beatrice who encouraged him to do it. There seems to be zero judgement in that family or maybe they have got so used to dictating terms to the media, they never thought it could backfire on them.
