The Witch-Hunt Of Prince Andrew Continues
Several years ago, Prince Andrew was falsely accused of rape by a woman who is best described as a chiselling little whore, a serial liar, and a self-confessed child sex trafficker. His name was dragged through the mud by a wilfully dishonest media and he was said to be in disgrace.
Now, he is facing another and entirely different slur, he is said to have links with a man who is alleged to be a Chinese Government agent. Before dealing with this nonsense, it is best to revisit the first manufactured scandal.
Like many royals the world over, Prince Andrew would frequently rub shoulders with the famous, influential or just plain wealthy. One such associate of his was the late Jeffrey Epstein, who regardless of anything else that may be said about him was an enigmatic figure. Unfortunately, he also had an attraction for underage girls, and this led to him being charged with procuring a girl under the age of eighteen for prostitution.
In Florida, the age of consent is eighteen. Epstein had, through his agents, procured many girls under that age to give him erotic massages. The youngest was said to be fourteen, and they were all well-remunerated for their services. Epstein’s activities came to light in March 2005 when a woman told Palm Beach police she had found her 14 year old stepdaughter with $300 cash, money she had been paid by Epstein to strip for and massage him.
Serious though these offences were, two things need to be stressed. The first is that at the time, Epstein was not accused by anyone of rape or any forcible sexual offence. The veracity of later allegations – including by adult women – must be assessed carefully. The second thing to stress is that although he is constantly alluded to as a paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein was not a paedophile; none of the girls from whom he received massages were prepubescent, the hallmark of paedophilia.
Although he was required to register as a sex offender, his treatment by the legal authorities was extremely light, and caused outrage, especially for Palm Beach police who had put an enormous amount of effort into the investigation. Having said that, the crimes for which he would later be indicted were nothing like as serious as those of the grooming gangs the length and breadth of England which were literally ignored by the police here for over a decade.
Three years ago, Epstein’s principal procuress Ghislaine Maxwell was given a twenty year sentence, but anyone who has studied the evidence presented at her New York trial might wonder what crime she committed that warranted such heavy-handed treatment. In the UK, she would have received a sentence of three or four years if that, and Epstein, maybe seven or eight years. He did not stand trial, of course, committing suicide (or perhaps being murdered) in his prison cell. So where did Prince Andrew fit in with this?
Royal protocol dictates that people of Andrew’s rank must not associate socially with disreputable persons. This is an unwritten rule but is a rule nevertheless. Long after Epstein’s conviction became widespread public knowledge, Andrew was photographed walking with him, and in spite of his later claims, he had not severed ties with Epstein.
Although Ghislaine Maxwell had been Epstein’s main procuress (as well as his mistress) she was far from the only one. His second lieutenant, as it were, was a teenager named Virginia Roberts. Roberts would claim she had been recruited by Epstein when she was 15. That is a bald lie. She was introduced to him through Ghislaine while she was working at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, and she would not have been employed there in any capacity if she were not at least 16.
In March 2001, Roberts visited London with Epstein and claimed later that while here she had sex with Prince Andrew. As evidence if not proof of that encounter, a photograph would emerge showing her with Andrew and Ghislaine. Below is one of several edits of this photograph. Some people, including those with serious credentials, claim it is a fake. Let us assume though that it is genuine; what does it prove? First though, let us continue the Virginia Roberts story.
She was so trusted by Epstein that he sent her to Thailand on her own to take a massage course as an eighteenth birthday present. On her return, she was to bring back a girl with her – that is her claim. However, when she arrived, she met an Australian national named Robert Giuffre, and married him after a whirlwind romance. Either he didn’t know or didn’t care what she had been doing. If at this point, Epstein’s willing whore had disappeared forever into the Outback and lived out her days as an Australian housewife, no one would have cared, but a few years later when the FBI came calling, she had some explaining to do.
Her explanation was that she was “trafficked” by Epstein, and anything she did while in his employ was done under duress, “Please sir, I am but humble maid...” You get the picture.
Talking of pictures, on February 17, 2011, The Mail On Sunday published a long interview with the former Virginia Roberts by Sharon Churcher. In this, it is claimed Roberts was with Epstein for four years. No! Two years at most, but four years would have been even worse.
In the article, she claimed further that she was training to be Epstein’s prostitute, and admitted she recruited underage girls for him. That makes her a child sex trafficker. The fact that she was under 18 is no excuse; younger teens have been convicted of far more serious crimes up to and including murder.
Of her March 2001 London visit, she said the four of them went to the famous nightclub Tramp - her, Epstein, Ghislaine and the Prince. Then they went back to a terraced house owned by Ghislaine where the sex took place. The photograph was taken, she says, specifically to show her mother.
“Look Mom, I was raped by a prince” – seriously?
As royal insider Lady Colin Campbell has pointed out, this was the coldest night of the year, and the way Roberts is dressed in that photograph does not seem to gel. Also, Tramp was and remains a club for members and their guests, guests over the age of 18! The age of consent in England is 16.
At this time, although not a bachelor, the divorced Andrew was one of the most eligible single men in Britain if not the world, certainly for his age. One might have expected someone to have taken a photograph of him with an attractive teenager in a fashionable nightclub or somewhere else, but only one such photograph exists, the one the star struck Virginia Roberts wanted to show her mother.
There is no mention in this article of Roberts being forced or coerced into having sex with Andrew, much less being raped, indeed, Churcher is at pains to point out that:
“Virginia was never under the British legal age of consent when she met Andrew. She was 17 during the first two encounters and 18 at the third.”
That’s if these second two encounters happened, but have you got that? Andrew did nothing wrong. Yet, four years later, Giuffre accused him of rape, and the corrupt media went along with it. In November 2019, Andrew sat down with hack BBC journalist Emily Maitlis for what has been called a car crash interview. He had clearly not been prepared by his aides, and among other things denied ever having met the then Virginia Roberts. Maitlis asked him some hard questions; by contrast, her earlier interview with his accuser was entirely softball.
Andrew is far from the only man this chiselling little whore has falsely accused. She claimed to have been sexually abused by Alan Dershowitz, of all people. Dershowitz had been part of Epstein’s legal team. She actually sued Dershowitz for defamation, and he counter-claimed. He said at one point that he wanted her prosecuted for perjury, but the case had a surprising end. It is one thing to make allegations and another entirely to prove them. When it came to discovery, she realised she had nothing, so came up with some BS excuse about having mistaken him for someone else. As if. He accepted her retraction with a magnanimity that was totally unwarranted.
She has falsely accused other people too. Nothing this woman says should be given any credence without extremely strong, independent corroboration. The American criminal justice system considered her word to be of so little worth that she was not even called as a prosecution witness at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. If anything, she should have been put on trial with Ghislaine.
Prince Andrew was advised to settle her lawsuit, which he did. The figure of $12 million has been thrown around. Lady Colin Campbell says it was for much less. If Andrew had simply admitted having sex with her, that would have been the end of the story. He is believed to have settled under pressure from the Queen. One other thing that should be noted about this case is that the former Virginia Roberts had some extremely wealthy backing, probably from more than one party. The cost of instigating a lawsuit of this nature internationally would have been far more than the six figure payout she received from selling her tissue of lies to the tabloid press.
Having set the record straight about Andrew’s alleged sexual abuse – not for the first time – we need not waste too much time on the current slur.
The big story is that Andrew had links with a man who was claimed to be a Chinese spy or at best, some sort of government agent. Links is a favourite weasel word of many hacks, but what does it mean? Police officers, lawyers and many others may have “links” with all manner of nefarious individuals including serial killers. Does that mean they too are nefarious?
Initially, Andrew’s linked Chinese “spy” was not named in the UK but any attempt to suppress his identity was doomed to failure, and he has now been named as Yang Tengbo, pictured below.
The bottom line is from 2001to 2011, Andrew served as an international business representative for this country and is still involved in business.
Mr Yang came to Britain in 2002 and obtained a Masters Degree from the University of York, so he is clearly no stranger. In November 2021, he was stopped by the UK border police and his electronic devices were seized. This is apparently what led him to be denied further residency in the UK.
China is often criticised for its record on human rights, but in recent years especially, the UK has no right to criticise China or almost any other nation. Under its Draconian anti-terror legislation, travellers – including journalists – can be stopped at airports and told to provide the passwords for their devices, which can be seized on the most tenuous of pretexts or none. They can be questioned extensively, and have no right to refuse to answer questions.
We are led to believe that this man and indeed China are enormous threats to the security of this nation, this at a time when bogus asylum seekers by the tens of thousands are flooding into the country from all manner of places. Overwhelmingly, these people are young or youngish men. Most of them destroy or dispose of their papers before they arrive, so we have no idea not only of their countries of origin but of their possible dangerousness including terrorist “links”. Many have been convicted of quite serious crimes, including sex crimes, but this has been largely covered up, and reporting on it deemed racist. Yawn. The United States had and continues to have similar problems with bogus asylums seekers in recent years including three high profile sex murders, one of a 12 year old girl, Jocelyn Nungaray, yet like the UK, the US regards China as a threat to its national security. Let us be quite clear about this, China is a rival, but it is not our enemy.
Returning to Prince Andrew and Mr Yang, what sort of security threat does or did the latter pose by rubbing shoulders with royals? Was he permitted to roam freely around Buckingham Palace without an escort? Does the Monarch hold the key to the nuclear codes?
If Mr Yang had started an affair with a woman who worked for GCHQ, that might have been something to be concerned about, but he appears to have been concerned with business and nothing else, except perhaps boasting to his chums back in China that he shook hands with the Queen of England.
Furthermore, if Prince Andrew is to be condemned for his “links” to a Chinese national, what about Jeremy Hunt? In 2009, he married a Chinese woman who also came to Britain to study. Since then he has held no fewer than four high offices including Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Finally, we should mention Hunter Biden who along with his corrupt father spent a lot of time in China influence peddling, something that was dismissed by leading Democrats with the usual “Nothing to see here, folks”.
China has many investments in Britain, and Britain also invests in China. If Mr Yang is any kind of Chinese agent, then so is every Chinese businessman abroad. As a patriot he would doubtless report back anything that reflected unfavourably on his country. If the tabloid press and others are truly concerned about threats to our national security, they can start by throwing their weight behind the campaign to stop this illegal invasion and to start kicking out true undesirables who have no business being here.
Whatever one thinks of the Chinese Government, it always puts its own people first. It grants very few foreigners citizenship, and anyone who tried invading the country in small boats would be blown out of the water by its coastguard.