{"id":139032,"date":"2026-02-19T18:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139032\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:47:42","slug":"he-was-her-favorite-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139032\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He Was Her Favorite Child\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Queen Elizabeth II enabled son Andrew\u2019s deviant and alleged criminal activity with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein with the help of Buckingham Palace operatives who swiftly punished the whistleblowers that threatened to expose his randy behavior, insiders tell the National Examiner.<\/p>\n

For decades, London\u2019s Met police officers assigned to Andrew\u2019s protection detail knew to keep their mouths shut or face the wrath of the notorious \u201cthe Firm\u201d \u2014 the nickname for the iron-fisted palace machine of advisors, lawyers and aides tasked with protecting the Crown, sources say.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was well known in the police department that if you cared about your future, your career, you never questioned anything about Andrew,\u201d says a royal insider. If you did, \u201cyou were going to be relegated to a back-street Bobby beat or assigned to a miserable desk job.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were protection officers who had really cushy jobs and traveled on private jets with Andrew, and when they raised concerns they were reassigned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The stunning palace cover-up comes as a new tranche of documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice include \u201cnail-in-the-coffin\u201d pictures of a smirking Andrew on all fours, crouching over an unidentified young female splayed out on the floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew even brought in prostitutes to Buckingham Palace for years,\u201d claims<\/a> Andrew Lownie, the author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York. \u201cIt was done on a regular basis. People who worked there complained to people in command \u2014 but nothing was done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Royal experts believe the beloved queen, who died in 2022 at age 96, enabled Andrew, 66, despite pleadings from the future King Charles to banish his brother from the palace forever. Once Charles took the throne, he eventually stripped Andrew of the royal titles of prince and Duke of York and evicted him from his home, the crown-owned Royal Lodge.<\/p>\n

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As readers know, Elizabeth stripped her son of his palace paycheck and duties following Epstein sex slave Virginia Giuffre suing Andrew for allegedly sexually assaulting her when she was 17. Andrew has denied her charges, yet in 2022, the queen helped him pay for the reported $16 million settlement, says the insider.<\/p>\n

A second royal source tells the Examiner that King Charles and his son Prince William wanted to expel Andrew from the royal court years ago but were handcuffed by the queen and the Firm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe queen was always protecting him at all costs, and it was known that he was her favorite child,\u201d says the source. \u201cShe knew about everything \u2014 Epstein, the girls, the trafficking \u2014 and I believe she was just trying to help him. She just turned a blind eye to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story Queen Elizabeth II \u2018Turned a Blind Eye\u2019 to Ex-Prince Andrew\u2019s Scandals: \u2018He Was Her Favorite Child\u2019<\/a> first appeared on National Examiner<\/a>. Add National Examiner as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Queen Elizabeth II enabled son Andrew\u2019s deviant and alleged criminal activity with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15372,2417,6769,1428,17778,9,24,63,9492,1312,122,124,123,58813],"class_list":{"0":"post-139032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-andrew-lownie","9":"tag-buckingham-palace","10":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-national-examiner","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-prince-william","17":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news","21":"tag-son-andrew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}