🎶 Oh …. The grand old Duke of York, He had 12 million quid, He sent it to someone he never met, For something he never did. 🎶

Rather than worrying about whether Prince Andrew can return to public life is secondary to whether he will ever be properly investigated and charged if appropriate for the sexual exploitation of children

If he wasn’t a prince he would have been locked up by now..

Our company was visited by Andrew overseas and the staff were very excited to hear a British Prince was coming to visit . On the appointed day I got to sit next to him behind the driver as we drove around a very large and extensive complex . A group of our staff had been positioned on one corner of the yard ready to do a meet , greet , and some photographs . They had stood in the sticky hot tropical sun for many hours and were extremely excited at having been selected for the honour . As we approached and slowed down near the group , the Prince turned to me and asked what was going on . I replied the reason for doing so he could meet these guys but with a look of total scorn he glowered at me remarking “ I don’t do photographs “ tapping the driver on the shoulder he ordered “ Drive on ! Don’t stop. Can you imagine the looks on all those faces as the crowd witnessed us slowing down and then suddenly accelerating out of view . So much for international trade envoy . Thousands of employees in more than one country of course got to hear about it and like me , probably never forgot it . I have many such stories of my interactions with this bombastic fool . Good riddance.

One feels pity ? That one being you Cole Everyone else is feeling all kinds of sick that he is still a free man

There is no way ANYONE with any decency should feel sorry for Andrew Winsor! For the victims yes.

If the ill advised interview had never happened, the prince would still have been a sex offender. He doesn’t deserve protection.

Andrew is Arrogant and entitled

Michael Cole is so disingenuous telling us PA is not a nasty person. He is well known for treating palace and security staff very badly. Rude and obnoxious.

As a woman who knows what it was like to grow up female, I take offense to all this "pity poor Andrew" talk. He should be ashamed and if he himself is feeling sorry for himself, that's disgusting. Instead, he should be thankful if in fact he was ignorant of the abuse and the obviously extremely young age, that he found out before he and all those other people could continue to harm those captive victims.

Supreme arrogance deserves no pity…👎🏽

I have NO PITY for "Prince" Andrew. He is a shame for the Royal Family, for his own Family and for Him Self💔

Per the news in the US, the FBI requested interviews with Andrew multiple times, first several times low pressuredly, with an expectation of cooperation because Andrew said he would meet with them, and then through the most formal channels. Andrew never would meet with them. He strung them along, steadily saying he was willing to be interviewed, seeming to imagine it would all be forgotten if he shined them on for long enough. We were given to understand that the FBI ultimately gave up due to diplomatic immunity. So it is weaselly to say Andrew was never charged, let alone convicted. He lied and he hid.

He was born into immense wealth, power, and prestige. He could've done virtually anything, and repeatedly chose to spend his life consorting with lowlife criminals. He seems like a right wrong'un.

No one feels pity for him on any level.

“Ill-judged”? It was simply the truth of what kind of a person he was and he is.

“AMIABLE’ 😂😂😂. Andrew is the one who drove his Range Rover through the palace gates, costing £85,000 in damage, that came out of public funds.

He's not a Victim. He's in up to his neck in filth. Obnoxious and priveleged. He's put shame on the whole family and the system we are in. No way back!! Far too much is coming out now. They are not fit for purpose.

Poor Andrew, how will he make a living now he can't do public appearances? Will he go on the dole? Oh, wait........he was born into obscene wealth and will die obscenely wealthy.

Nothing 'happened to Prince Andrew on this ill-judged occasion'... Andrew himself put on display his total arrogance, dishonesty and unwillingness to be accountable for his own choices and actions. I still recall my jaw dropping open when he said - with absolutely no hint of awareness - that he felt it totally appropriate to continue to visit with Mr. Epstein after his release from prison (pathetic sentence notwithstanding).... after conviction for sex trafficking minors. That he could not see what was so appallingly wrong with that - and that he could feel that it made sense to express loyalty to a friend in that circumstance over the exploitation of young girls was staggering. It is clear that he will never, ever, get it.

Wasn't Prince Andrew known as "Randy Andy" back in the 80s? Gee, why was that? Has his life-long patterns been forgotten somehow?

Doesn't do his eldest daughter Beatrice, who supported the interview, any favours either. However, it's clear from many sources that Andrew is a "don't you know who I am" type of arrogant bloke. A total lack of judgement on them both.

I don’t think his assessment about Andrew’s attitude before the Falklands is correct. I spent a short time at BRNC Dartmouth just after he left there and the impression I got from one or two people on staff there at the time was that Andrew was arrogant and unpleasant.

We see what unlimited wealth and an inborn sense of massive entitlement do.

Sad to see that he didn't receive judicial punishment

He should absolutely never return to public life.

Prince Andrew should be behind bars. His freedom to have all that money without doing anything for it is no punishment! I have no “pity” for him at all. This speaker is regrettably mistaken!

If you want to know a man's character, give him power. I think Lincoln said that.

I'm bemused by the idea that no longer having a public life will be a disaster for Andrew. Will he lose his income? Will he lose the very fine mansion he lives in? No?? So............he won't lose anything but on the other hand won't have to lift a finger for it anymore. What a disaster.

Wealthy life in golf course is really not a tragedy.

IMO Prince Andrew is guilty of what he has been accused of. He got off lightly. He should be in jail so i don't feel once ounce of pity for him.

How can he be “finished” when he’s a hereditary prince with family titles and the income that goes along with it? What job can he be fired from? So who’s going to weep when he can’t return to the “public life” of giving speeches about…whatever he ever gave speeches on?

On the bright side...Andrew has been offered a role as a global Ambassador for Pizza Express...

As I recall, the Marquis De Sade actually felt that his noble status gave him the right to satisfy his perverted sexual desires upon the common class without limit. It could be that Andrew has some of that self-serving arrogance as well.

A good interviewer who didn't constantly interrupt

Schadenfreude isn’t exclusively felt by Germans, there’s no shame in feeling that Andrew is finally getting a small measure of justice.

He is lucky he has not had the same fate as his good friend Ghislaine Maxwell, Lucky he hasn't faced charges in the USA

Pity for him? Never!

So it’s his “openness” which brought him down. Not his character and behaviour. Right.

Huge respect for Michael Cole, however he's wrong on earlier life of Prince Andrew. In the 80s I have had first hand experience of his disgusting behaviour as a Midshipman at Dartmouth and undergoing elementary Bulldog Naval Flight training at RAF base .I know for a fact his peers loathed him and in many cases hated him,. His arrogance alone was off the scale and his behaviour in the 80s WAS NOT that of an Officer and a Gentleman.

No sweat. Andrew will be ok, because he says he says he cannot sweat!

@17:52 so "we have to take it on the word of a prince of the royal blood" ENOUGH of the forelock tugging already.

Oh no, how are we going to cope without Prince andrew in public..?

It's tragic in the sense that Prince Andrew will never be able to return to public life? What on Earth is this man talking about? It's tragic in the sense that people were abused. And, no, actually, I don't feel pity for Andrew. I don't even see what there is to pity.

I had the misfortune of meeting Prince Andrew many years ago and he was obnoxious, arrogant and rude so not remotely surprised with any of this.

I have a number of issues with the opinion expressed. No conviction nor trial with occur unless Andrew stops hiding behind his brother and man's up reporting to the USA authorities. To express the same empathy to Andrew and the victims reflect the generation that turns the other way to men's bad choices. He just wants to stay in good grace. Curious if Andrew will receive royalties for the series. He certainly has wasted the money he had...

I’m a republic supporter so i am biased, yet anyone born into royalty knows they offer themselves to a life of service and duty to the country as repayment for their privilege, its therefore right that he has fallen as he has failed in this trade off in part by his arrogance. It was his choice not to hold his hands up taken a position of truth and transparency and instead take a route of pay offs and secrecy. He’s lucky he’s not in court facing charges that is where his luck is and this is in part due to his pay off’s. I believe he should be stripped of all titles and all public funding. His brother is rich enough let him support his brother not the state.

Doesn't the guy have daughters? Just think of that in this context.

What Michael Cole seems to be omitting to acknowledge is that Andrew was one of the abusers, he wasn't some hapless innocent who just happened to fall in with the wrong company, he was the wrong company.

Oh God the arrogance! "Shadenfreude is for the Germans"! WOW! How rude!

The only pity felt during my watch of Scoop was because Rufus Sewell portrayed him so sympathetically. I understand from watching interviews of his security guards that Andrew was an obnoxious person to look after. This interview should have only taken 10 minutes as he's saying the same thing over and over.

Andrew is apparently, still the Earl of Inverness, so, naturally, Inverness have retaliated by marketing the 'Loch Ness Noncer' angle - I mean, bravo! Great team work, Inverness!

We can talk about PA and his (unrepairable) reputation all we like but the attention should be Epstein’s victims. They are at the heart of all this, and Andrew associating with the guy and his wife, and the admitting he still doesn’t regret it, should be enough for him to be blackballed by the media now.

Send him to America for questioning

In reality, Andrew has dodged a bullet by avoiding charges for his alleged activity. Andrews other activities, attitudes and history is enough to have him banned from any Royal involvement or appearance in public. Why King Charles III doesn't remove him from Royal Lodge is amazing to me, he may be family but he should be sent as far away as possible.

I thought this was excellent. Prince Andrew as we all know is an arrogant and unpleasant person but I wonder how much is due to his upbringing .

Poor poor prince Andrew. He wasn't homeless and suffering. These people live lives of unimagined luxury. I liked Princess Diana, but she was a player; a European jetsetter.

He cant go back to work but still gets millions of dollars. He will have to be happy golfing and relaxing. Most people who work their whole lives cant hope for such a retirement.

It wasn't ill-judged. It was Karma.

32:12 a life confined to the golf course and private pleasures 🙄 meanwhile some people are having to choose between eating and heating

You have you be really twisted to feel that Prince Andrew was the victim in all this. Where does Times Radio get these ghouls?

Sheer hubris and arrogance. Apparently he still thinks he didn’t do anything wrong and that the British public are docile enough to welcome him back

Prince Andrew isn't "finished", he lives in a huge mansion in a 98 acres plot, and he's a multimillionaire protected by his title. How is this "finished"?

If Andrew was the most pleasant the others must be horrendous 😂😂 Jesus wept

I don’t think “Scoop” has any bearing on PA’s status. He was never coming back. It portrayed him as a pompous arrogant fool with a poor choice in friends. Which is exactly how he was already thought of.

Police wanted to interview him in the USA and he refused to go. The point at which you can feel sorry for Prince Andrew would be when he faces the police interrogation and is released or a court of law and is acquitted. Unfortunately he couldn't even withstand the scrutiny of a relatively friendly BBC interview. This whole article is based on the assumption he made an error of judgement and some silly mistakes and is not guilty of anything. Which to my mind, given his attitude towards power, is the most unlikely scenario. He lacks the empathy and feels he has done nothing wrong, should not have to answer to anything to these people and perceives himself as the victim.

That interview was the beginning of the end of the monarchy. The fact that it happened meant something. The fact that he felt the interview went well mean something even worse.

Peado Andrew is lucky to avoid jail

If previous statements by Buckingham Palace staff regarding Andy's personal character and his attitude towards them are to be believed he is not a person who is likely to earn or deserve public respect!

Ill judgement is the adjective this man gives to the business-friendship relationship between 2 monsters???? Really???? Why is this man so protective on a criminal who by the way recives no punishment or legal prosecution for his repugnant pleasures? Booo booo he lost his public life and titles, poor little thing!!!

How disgusting.. in this interview looks like we have to feel sorry for Prince Andrew!! No way! I feel sorry for victims and for the fact that he is free. He must be in prison!

Andrew was finished long before 'Scoop'

Royal blood give it a rest. Ridiculous

Michael Cole, ex Fayed aide at Harrods ,and PR Expert (very modest) and his pontifications about the Royal Family and what they should or shouldn't do is probably one of the reasons Harry left. He's almost as insufferably smug and entitled as Andrew

The King needs to cut off all security funding until Andrew vacates his palace.

Why is the focus on the PR disaster and interview. Instead the story should be throughly investigated instead of accepting this cover up.

Anyone without his position.Would definitely go to jail.They are never accountable because of who they are.

High status??? In his own mind.

They are all a waste of time and money. Time for a Republic. Time to stop prancing around wearing carpets and head gear. It’s 2024. Time to focus on the people their needs. Not the overbred few.

Michael Cole for years was the voice of the monarchy on the BBC. So for him to be so scathing of Andrew now speaks volumes

He was finished years ago, surely.

I think my Samsung colour screen has packed up on the red.

He should be in jail for the rest of his life

There needs to be a thorough investigation into his actions as the UK trade envoy and its finances.

The Queen did not leave it to Prince Andrews judgment. Interview was far too controversial for Palace not to have given the green light to go ahead. It was filmed in Buckingham Palace so she wasn’t trying to distance the Palace from the interview was she? The whole leave the decision to Prince Andrew shtick was to shield the Queen from recrimination if the interview went pear shaped which it inevitably did. Biggest take away from this incident is that Palace principals and advisors actually thought Andrew could recover his reputation through this I’ll advised interview, showing how completely misguided and out of touch with reality they all are.

He needs to show up in a U.S. court as requested.

Andrew the nounce

'Prince of the royal blood' description from a royal sycophant

When somebody has a purpose in life they will likely be fine throughout it. Given nothing to do they have a great chance of going off the rails perhaps from boredom. This is the trouble with a royal family. Unfortunately Andrew got born into one.

There all a bit dodgey in the Royal Family , one only has to consider the friendship between Charlie and Savil, there all a bit quiet about that one!

I am bald and am pondering whether I'd rather still be bald or have that on my head.

“He’s never been charged with anything “. 😂😂😂. Of course he hasn’t! His brother is head of the judiciary ffs!

He also ensured he avoided the opportunity to deal with the matter in a NYC courtroom.

Very rarely does such an arrogant offensive entitled person get this kind of comeuppance.

It takes an old white male to feel sorry for someone like prince Andrew, who‘s unbecoming conduct had been going on for decades. He was not only close friends with Epstein, but even closer with Ghistlaine Maxwell since College. The interview was not the one problem that brought him down. Andrew just couldn’t help himself, he had to show everyone his true face, because he thinks he hasn’t done anything wrong. Sadly Michael Cole feels more sorry about Andrew getting caught than feeling sorry about what he has done. What an impaired sense of justice. Andrew’s victims are who we should feel sorry for. Andrew never denied his victim‘s statements, never called them out as lies, just said he doesn’t recollect. Let’s face it, he will never be charged, even though he practically admitted it on camera. Only white males can get away with this and have other white males feeling sorry for them.

The film was incredibly boring and trope-filled. However more scrutiny of Prince Andrew can only be a good thing.

Couldn’t focus on this.. overwhelmed by the plumage

Sad sad for the young women affected. Sad for the relatives of Prince Andrew.

I was a big fan of our royal family until the death of Princess Diana completely changed my mind. Andrew is just another example ...

I watched it and my blood boiled.