“Actually [Banished] is reverse in a way it starts with the contemporary story that everybody knows.
But the really fascinating stuff in this project is his life leading up to that.”
Buckle in and learn the most jaw-dropping things from Peacock’s documentary, “Prince Andrew: Banished.”
He was very spoiled."
Thetransformation of King Charles IIIis remarkable, in part because he was bullied growing up.
Unlike his sensitive brother, Andrew was “one of the lads.”
Seward said, “Prince Philip loved this boy.
He was everything Charles hadn’t been.
So he had even more attention lavished on him.”
War hero Prince Andrew ‘couldn’t keep his trousers closed’.
The prince became a war hero, putting the handsome royal in the global spotlight.
Andrew became a ladies' man, fueling his already large ego.
“The Guardiannoted the Duke of York’s nickname was “Randy Andy.”
a different one each time.”
The royal couple married in 1986, but the Duchess of York was unhappy.
Andrew and Fergie only saw each other 40 days in their first year of marriage.
The public was shocked .
And the royal family were totally disgusted."
Essentially, he allowed Fergie to be sort of banished."
In 2001, the prince became Britain’s “special envoy for trade,” an unpaid ambassador gig.
whose sole job apparently is to write thank-you letters."
During the prince’s ten years as “special envoy,” there were many allegations of shady transactions.
But one of Andrew’s deals stands out.
Sunninghill Park was a wedding gift from Queen Elizabeth.
In 2011,The Daily Beastreported that the prince quit his government job under a cloud of scandal.
The documentary frames Andrew more as a predator than the mainstream media has reported.
Journalist Helen Kirwan-Taylor explained, “Without all the trade envoy perks, he needed Epstein.”
Most of all, Epstein and Maxwell supplied the prince with women.
Kirwan-Taylor said Andrew was very needy and wanted to feel important, and Epstein was his “enabler.”
Kirwan-Taylor offered a darker take on the prince, telling interviewers, “It’s acquired situational narcissism.
And it means you may not have been born a flaming narcissist, but you become one.
And I think that’s what happened to Prince Andrew.”
Brown added that meeting Epstein was the point of no return for Andrew.
“The problem is, the man’s an idiot,” Arbiter explained.
Journalist Helen Kirwan-Taylor told interviewers, “Prince Andrew thought he was more than a royal.
I think he thought he was more of a celebrity.”
It’s damning not only of Andrew but of those who enabled him."
