IT’S ABOUT Prince Andrew’s royal ruination: The antics and
Heir today, gone tomorrow.
The final straw came last week, but a British royal’s journey from Randy Andy to pariah prince was decades in the making.
Prince Andrew’s dating deeds made him a British tabloid darling in the ’70s and ’80s, but it took a disastrous BBC interview on Nov. 16 defending his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to get him bounced from Buckingham Palace.
Within four days, Andrew issued a statement that said he was going to “step back from public duties for the foreseeable future.”
“It has become clear to me over the last few days that the circumstances relating to my former association with Jeffrey Epstein has become a major disruption to my family’s work and the valuable work going on in the many organizations and charities that
I am proud to support,” read the official palace message.
Reports say his monarch mom fired him, yanking his $320,000 annual palace salary.
The tone-deaf Duke of York became prince non grata after he not only failed to express any compassion for Epstein’s victims in the
TV sitdown but also managed to confirm that his 2010 stay at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion — after the predator served 13 months for procuring a minor for prostitution — included a dinner party.
Confronted with photographic evidence he at least met a teen Epstein “sex slave” who says she was coerced into sleeping with him, the 59-yearold told the BBC he believes the image was “faked.”
The vice admiral then bizarrely boasted that an “overdose of adrenalin” suffered in the Falklands War left him unable to perspire, so the woman’s claim he that he was sweating like a pig actually exonerated him.
The interview was widely panned in the British press, with Royal Central editor Charlie Proctor calling it a “plane crashing into an oil tanker, causing a tsunami, triggering a nuclear explosion.”
Here’s a look back at some of the antics and damaging claims behind Andrew’s downfall:
The young party prince
As a burgeoning bachelor in the early 1980s, Andrew frequently squired models and actresses around town.
Catherine Oxenberg says he proposed marriage when she was only 18 years old. She declined and landed a role on “Dynasty.”
Andrew subsequently dated Koo Stark, an American actress who appeared in multiple movies with explicit sexual content. After the couple took a high-profile trip to Mustique, the relationship fizzled.
The prince moved on to Vicki Hodge, an actress who previously dated Ringo Starr and appeared in the 1974 comedy flick “Confessions of a Sex Maniac.” He also was linked to Catherine Rabett, who later played a Bond girl in the 1987 movie “The Living Daylights.”
Marriage to Fergie
Andrew seemed to settle down in 1986 when he married Sarah Ferguson in an elaborate royal wedding at Westminster Abbey. The young couple went on to have two daughters — Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie — but the union ended in 1992 with an amicable announcement the couple was separating. They divorced four years later. Ferguson went on to later