Why on earth do the rich keep bankrolling Prince Andrew? | Gaby Hinsliff
Despite his fall from grace, the royal always seems to find a pal to pay his way. In a world awash with murky interests, it is rather important that we find out why
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a fortune is usually dead keen to throw it at Prince Andrew.
Because they keep on doing it, don’t they? They just can’t help themselves, from the oligarch son-in-law of Kazakhstan’s then president, who so obligingly paid £3m over the asking price for the Duke of York’s former marital home at Sunninghill Park, to the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who so famously lent the duke’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson £15,000 to help clear her debts. Even after King Charles stopped paying his security bills, Andrew is believed to have found what the royal journalist Robert Hardman’s biography of the king delicately calls “other sources of income” related to his contacts in international trade – a phrase that makes you long for the good old days of Fergie gamely doing WeightWatchers ads to pay off her overdraft or Princess Anne’s son-in-law going on I’m A Celebrity to discuss her reaction to his novelty boxer shorts.
Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist
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