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The Mystery of Thomas H. Lee – Clinton-Epstein Conspiracy Theories Continue

Matthew Steeples examines whether the recent suicide by gunshot of “the envy of Wall Street” billionaire Thomas H. Lee was in any way linked to a clear association with Bill Clinton and a possible one with Jeffrey Epstein

Thomas H. Lee did not appear in the 95-page infamous ‘Little Black Book’ associated with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell. Now, however, after his apparent ‘suicide’ this billionaire financier has not only described as “considerate, generous and unpretentious” and a “constant presence” in her life by Hillary Clinton, but also as having “links” to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sparking rumours of yet another example of the ‘Clinton Body Count’ – the much disputed conspiracy theory that as many as fifty people with close links to the Clintons have died in nefarious circumstances – Stephen M. Lepore for the DailyMail.com shared a photograph of Lee at a New York shindig with another billionaire named Robert Kraft and a couple named Glenn and Eva Dubin. Swedish Ms Andersson-Dubin dated Jeffrey Epstein prior to his 2008 conviction and continued to “socialise with [him] after his time in jail,” Bloomberg reported in 2019.

The 78-year-old Harvard graduate and founder of Lee Equity Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners was best known himself for having bought the soft drinks brand Snapple Beverages in 1992 for £112 million ($135 million, €127 million or درهم496 million) and sold it for a 334% profit to Quaker Oats for £1.4 billion ($1.7 billion, €1.6 billion or درهم6.2 billion) in 1994.

Known also for being an “avid art collector,” father of five Lee also served as a trustee of Lincoln Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Brandeis University, Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Harvard University, the Intrepid Museum Foundation, NYU Medical Center, and Rockefeller University.

In a statement currently opening the homepage of their website, Lee Equity Partners shared:

“It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder and Chairman, Thomas H. Lee. He was a great partner and wonderful friend whose vision will continue to influence us for many years to come.”

“Tom’s determination, commitment and strategic vision will continue to inspire all of us at Lee Equity Partners. He was a leader, a friend, a partner, and our mentor. We know he will be proud as the firm continues on, with strength. We will work every day to meet the high standards he has set for us and the entire industry. On behalf of our employees, management teams and investment partners, we mourn his loss and extend our deepest sympathies to his family.”

Clearly illustrating that something might be amiss in the financial community, a member of the Wall Street Oasis forum last week remarked of Lee’s death:

“Self-inflicted gunshot wound. Wonder if he knows something about the future…”

Another added: “Perhaps another private equity guy with Epstein connections about to get exposed.”

Going further on Monday, Fortune shared an article with the headline: “Thomas H. Lee’s sudden death shocks partners at his $3 billion private investment firm – with a $1 billion fundraise in the balance.”

For the publication, Dawn Lim and Amanda Gordon added:

“Since then, Lee Equity’s executives have been forced to confront a difficult moment. In at least one conversation, they discussed the importance of reassuring clients that there’s no connection between his death and Lee Equity’s financial health or fund performance.”

“Lee’s death has ushered in a new level of public attention for a shop that manages £2.5 billion ($3 billion, €2.8 billion or درهم11 billion) and doesn’t have a formal media-relations team. It also comes at a critical juncture for the 40-person firm, which is raising a £833 million ($X billion, €942 million or درهم3/7 billion) fund just as investors have become increasingly reluctant to part with their cash amid volatile markets. The firm has raised the vast majority of that fund, other people said.”

“The suicide also presents a test for key partners Mark Gormley, Benjamin Hochberg, Yoo Jin Kim and Joseph Rotberg. They’re among eight executives who climbed the ranks to take bigger leadership roles and steered the firm into financial services and health care.”

“Some investors have taken comfort in the fact that succession is largely complete, people said. They pushed for the firm to spread its wealth more evenly among partners and had sway in the years after the financial crisis, when buyout firms struggled to raise new money. Lee’s cut of the profits was less than 10% for the firm’s last fund.”

“In recent days, several institutions extended condolences and provided expressions of support to the firm. Investors such as Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. committed money to the new fund. The firm’s backers have said they hope Lee’s death doesn’t rattle new investors.”

Returning to the story of the mystery surrounding the supposed ‘suicide’ also by gun shot of Bill Clinton aide turned Jeffrey Epstein associate and wannabe “international deal-maker” Mark Middleton, speaking exclusively to The Steeple Times this morning, Shaun Attwood provided comment to follow up by our two articles this week by Kirby Sommers and Matthew Steeples. The author of Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton? shared:

“Yet another ‘suicide’ in a long line of suicides #ClintonBodyCount. No surprises here when it comes to the Machiavellian behaviour of the Clinton crime family who’ve left a trail of corpses behind them from Arkansas when Bill was governor to the White House. It is a trail that continues to this day with Jeffrey Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel.”

Separately, in developing news about the possible move of the “simple shooting party” bestie of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that is Prince Andrew to Frogmore Cottage and possibly taking over Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle’s home, Matthew Steeples and Shaun Attwood will be live at 7pm GMT on YouTube tonight to discuss this in the fourth episode of Meghan Markle Expose. Follow the link below to tune in.

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party. Follow Matthew Steeples on Twitter at @M_Steeples.

Follow Shaun Attwood on Twitter at @shaunattwood and purchase his book ‘Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton?’ by clicking here.

Pictured Top – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton enjoying a jolly on the golf course with Thomas H. Lee and enjoying a bit of a bash at the White House with the sex trafficking fiends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Was the suicide of billionaire friend of Bill Clinton and financier Thomas H. Lee in any way connected to matters about financiers linked to Jeffrey Epstein? #ThomasHLee #ThomasLee #BillClinton #HillaryClinton #ClintonBodyCount #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #EvaAnderson
— Matthew Steeples (@M_Steeples) March 3, 2023

This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Was the suicide of billionaire friend of Bill Clinton and financier Thomas H. Lee in any way connected to matters about financiers linked to Jeffrey Epstein?” He accompanied the feature with the hashtags #ThomasHLee #ThomasLee #BillClinton #HillaryClinton #ClintonBodyCount #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #EvaAnderson. As of 11:30am on Friday 3^rd March, 50% of respondents favoured the option: “YES; Eva Andersson etc.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5RMKkC3pkE&list=PLPT_cCpNMvT50d_7cJ55ciKoZEY8q_YPt&index=7
To watch ‘Meghan Markle Expose – Part 4’ click this YouTube link. The 1 hour 15 minute episode first airs at 7pm GMT on Friday 3^rd March 2023. Issues covered primarily focus on the ‘FORGXIT’ saga of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from Frogmore Cottage, but there is also discussion of Prince Andrew and his grifting wife, Sarah, Duchess of York – a woman who has still never confirmed if she repaid the loans she so disgracefully took from the since croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Mr Lee’s body was found in a bathroom at his office at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York at around 11am on 23rd February. The 78-year-old was pronounced dead shortly after. A “family friend and spokesperson” named Michael Sitrick later shared: “While the world knew him as one of the pioneers in the private equity business and a successful businessman, we knew him as a devoted husband, father, grandfather, sibling, friend and philanthropist who always put others’ needs before his own.” Just prior to the time of his passing, ‘Forbes’ estimated his worth at £1.7 billion ($2 billion, €1.9 billion or درهم7.3 billion).

The now deceased billionaire (second left) partying with the billionaire businessman CEO of the Kraft Group Bob Kraft, the billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin and his “allegedly racy” wife Dr Eva Andersson-Dubin. Back in April 2022, ‘The Steeple Times’ featured the story of neighbours of the “decidedly dubious Dubins” slashing the price of their Upper East Side apartment from £25.1 million to £21.2 million. Of this news, a New York realtor told us: “1040 Fifth Avenue certainly has a perky past, but whilst Jackie Kennedy and Generoso Pope Jr. were unlikely bedfellows when they both lived there at the same time, the stench of the Epstein-Maxwell connections of Glenn, Eva and Celina Dubin is actually very off-putting to buyers. Who on earth would want to live next to them? It’s no wonder no one is biting-at-the-bit to snap up the apartment currently on offer and I can only suggest the sellers perhaps put off marketing until these two social misfits move off elsewhere.”

In February 2021, ‘The Steeple Times’ shared an exclusive story courtesy of information supplied by the crusading author of ‘Ghislaine Maxwell: An Unauthorized Biography’ Kirby Sommers concerning Glenn and Eva Dubin. In it, we featured pictures of the vile paedophile Jeffrey Epstein with one of the couple’s daughters on his lap on his notorious sex trafficking private jet. We titled the article: ‘PLANE PERVERTED.’

The house Mr Lee – who went by the self-assigned nickname ‘Tomcat’ as he believed he had “nine different lives” – shared with his second wife Ann Tenenbaum in East Hampton, New York. Of it, the ‘New York Post’ observed: “‘He was regarded as having one of the most admired houses in the Hamptons – Bill and Hillary Clinton were frequent guests, they would regularly stay there,’ the source told ‘The Post.’ The Clintons famously holed up at Lee’s East Hampton pad after the bruising 2008 Democratic primary. ‘He was a regular at Maidstone golf club,’ also, the source noted.”

Both Hillary Clinton and her husband attended the New York funeral service for Brooklyn born Thomas Haskell Lee (27th March 1944 – 23rd February 2023) on Monday 1st March 2023 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Remarking, Hillary Clinton commented: “Tom was a constant presence. “We’ve shared births and weddings and anniversaries, state dinners at the White House, lively parties from New York City to Martha’s Vineyard to the Hamptons during good times and tough ones. We’re here expressing our gratitude for years as friends, as colleagues and certainly as family members for his long, successful life.” Mr Lee leaves five children – Jesse, Zach, Nathan, Robbie and Rosalie as well as Ann Tenenbaum, the second wife he married in 1996.

Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein and President Bill Clinton at the White House on 29th September 1993. Allegations that Clinton and Maxwell had sexual liaisons that became a full-blown affair have abounded, but remain unconfirmed by either party Equally, Epstein and Clinton travelled together on multiple occasions and clearly shared a mutual liking for young girls also. The former POTUS was most certainly advised about the derelict and deviant actions of the nefarious former taxi driver turned financier, yet conveniently chose to ignore such and to instead accept the dirty devil’s dollar.

March 3, 2023
Will Royal Rotter ‘Randy Andy’ Be Turfed Out Of Royal Lodge?

As it is suggested royal rotter Prince Andrew will be turfed out of £30 million Royal Lodge, we suggest he move into ‘Feckless Fergie’s’ £4 million Belgravia mews house

This morning, in predictable form given her chummy associations with both Ghislaine Maxwell and Sarah, Duchess of York, Daphne Barak penned piffle in The Mail on Sunday in which she suggested it unfair that Prince Andrew might be evicted from Royal Lodge, Windsor in September as part of a cost cutting exercise by King Charles III.

Quoting an unnamed source “close to the Duke of York” – whom one must assume to be her friend ‘Feckless Fergie’ – Barak shared:

“The Queen had barely been laid to rest when it began. Message after message, delivered through the anonymous Buckingham Palace machine, warning that life was about to change for Prince Andrew… and not for the better.”

“’They didn’t even wait ten days from the end of mourning the Queen,’ I was told by a source close to the Duke of York. ‘That’s when courtiers started to send them the bad news.’”

“And it was recently made clear to Andrew, still grieving, that the annual allowance he has received from the monarch since he left the Navy in 2001 was about to be severely reduced, possibly even axed, as soon as April.”

“His mother paid him the yearly subsidy, last reported to be £249,000, out of her own private fortune, enabling him to fund his family home at Windsor’s Royal Lodge.”

“Now the Prince – who I have been told is ‘distraught’ – may have no choice but to give up his home of 19 years as soon as September.”

“Even people appalled by his association with the late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein would surely ask: ‘What’s the rush?’”

How terribly predictable of Barak to “rush” to the defence of a non-sweating, Pizza Express loving mouse-not-a-man who paid a sum estimated as high as £10 million to a woman he supposedly never met. Who will she be supporting next? Gary Glitter?

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

Should Prince Andrew be turfed out of Royal Lodge given he's no longer a working royal and clearly is lacking of the means to fund maintaining the £30m pad? #PrinceAndrew #DukeOfYork #RoyalLodge #Windsor #royal #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell https://t.co/NpAu3D8VQv
— Matthew Steeples (@M_Steeples) February 19, 2023

This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Should Prince Andrew be turfed out of Royal Lodge given he’s no longer a working royal and clearly is lacking of the means to fund maintaining the £30m pad?” Out of the four options offered, the immediate reaction was a majority being in favour of the rotten royal ratbag moving into his live-in ex-wife’s new home in Belgravia whilst one follower answered: “Him and Gary Glitter could share a flat.”

Grade II listed Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, Windsor, SL4 2JD has been home to Prince Andrew since he took a 75-year lease on it from the Crown Estate in August 2003. He paid around £1 million for it and had to agree to spend £7.5 million at September 2002 prices excluding VAT on the building’s renovation. In January 2022, the building was valued as being worth a sum of £30 million on the open market.

The Queen Mother was the previous occupant of the building on a grace and favour basis and died there in March 2002. She and her late husband had taken up residence there in 1931.

With friends like these… The Duke of York really does know how to choose them…

With friends like these… The guffawing goon that is the Duke of York was happy to take the “benefits” of his friendship with someone who bunged him cash and girls, Jeffrey Epstein, when it suited him. He was happy to take the “benefits” of his friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell, someone he allegedly even had a relationship with, when it suited him. He must now face the music and possibly also prepare to be dragged before the authorities if he ever dares to darken the doors of the United States of America ever again. Shame on him.

With friends like these… Prince Andrew is plainly a man who’ll hang out with anyone – as long as they are rich and/or powerful. He had no qualms in staying with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he got out of jail.

With friends like these… In February 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ reported on croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s chum (and his wife Sarah, Duchess of York’s financial sponsor) Prince Andrew having Bernie Ecclestone over to Royal Lodge, Windsor to celebrate his birthday. Whether this man “with qualities that would make Leona Helmsley look generous” brought Sloppy Giuseppes from Pizza Express (Woking branch) for the bash remains still unknown.

With friends like these… Another chum of ‘Air Miles Andy’ is the billionaire despot leader of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. This authoritarian dictator is known for a regime that presides over elections that are not free and fair, where political power is concentrated in the hands of his family, where corruption is rampant and human rights violations are beyond severe. The Aliyev’s have over £400 million of property in the United Kingdom alone and the Duke of York has most definitely been beyond helpful to them.

With friends like these… The Duke of York and his then wife even spent time holidaying at the expense of the currently incarcerated awaiting trial alleged paedophile Peter Nygård – an evil cretin whose own son has disowned him and changed his name.

With friends like these… The Duke and Duchess of York have also associated with the convicted paedophile Stuart Hall. One is left enquiring: “Is there any paedo pest they’d actually turn away?”

With friends like these… Sarah, Duchess of York, equally, has a lot to fear from Ghislaine Maxwell. She happily took wonga from Ponzi schemer Jeffrey Epstein in loans and gifts and has never declared whether or not she ever repaid such prior to the paedophile’s death in 2019. Shame on her.

February 19, 2023
Tall Tales At The Telegraph – Newspaper Taken In By Yet More Lies From Ian Maxwell About That Infamous Bathtub Bonk
As ‘The Telegraph’ falls for tall tales from mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother Ian Maxwell about Prince Andrew’s infamous “bathtub bonk” at her home, we remind readers of the truth about that standard sized tub

“It’s the most peculiar photograph I’ve ever seen on a front page” raged Justin Webb on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. Mr Webb, was referencing the day’s cover of The Telegraph and was talking of a story peddled to the rag-no-longer-a-readable paper by the nutty-not-nice Ian Maxwell, brother of the incarcerated noxious nonce Ghislaine Maxwell.

Going further of this clear episode of an editor gone bonkers, Labour MP Chris Bryant asked on Twitter: “Is it 1^st April? Was the whole editorial team on acid?” of an article by Robert Mendick and Victoria Ward that was titled: “The photo that ‘clears Duke [of York]’ over bath sex.”

In said piece, the pontificating and pointless paper shared an image of two people sitting in the first-floor bathtub at Ghislaine Maxwell’s former home at 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London with images of Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Prince Andrew in place of their faces. Bizarre it most definitely was, but newsworthy it was not.

If that was not weird enough, Mendick and Ward then chose to quote Ian Maxwell as if he were some kind of reliable source. The nutjob ranted:

“I am releasing my photos now because the truth needs to come out. They show the truth that the bath is too small for any sort of sex frolicking.”

“The whole of Virginia Giuffre’s case pivots upon a photograph taken more than 20 years ago at my sister’s former house in Kinnerton Street, in Belgravia.”

“It proves nothing. Prince Andrew and my sister think it’s a fake, but I take the view that it’s irrelevant. It just shows that Prince Andrew had his arms around a girl who wanted a photograph, as she has said herself, ‘to show to her mother.’”

“Ghislaine was in custody, and shortly after the picture was taken, the mews house was sold.”

“[Giuffre’s] story relating to having had sex in the bath dates back many years, and the obvious time to put it to her that the bath is too small and makes sex impossible was at the trial. But Virginia Giuffre was never called to give evidence, and the photo never came to light.”

“But her admission that her claim of having sex with Alan Dershowitz may be mistaken and therefore untrue, and given Prince Andrew is considering appealing the settlement, it seemed in the context of that the correct moment to release the images.”

“Prince Andrew has been completely cancelled on the basis of the allegations…The truth really does need to come out. If this photo is helpful in achieving that, then that is what this is all about.”

In January 2022, in a world exclusive subsequently picked up by the Daily Mail also, The Steeple Times revealed the first ever known photograph of the aforementioned bathroom and that this image showed this tub to be exactly what it is – full sized and thus perfectly capable of being a space in which two people could fool around and fornicate.

Prior to this latest release of what should be condemned as nothing but fake news, on 25^th January, Epstein victim lawyer Lisa Bloom tweeted of the matter:

“So important. Prince Andrew’s reported new effort to worm out of the settlement he signed comes just as his buddy Ghislaine Maxwell says Virginia’s photo with Andrew is faked. But OTHER PHOTOS. And she looks like such a little girl in the photo on right. Because she was.”

Editor’s Note – Unlike as is the case in many publications, this article was NOT sponsored or supported by a third-party.

Pictured Top – ‘The Telegraph’s’ front page on Saturday 28^th January and their soppy source, the swivel-eyed half-witted fruitcake Ian Maxwell; that this paper has been taken in by this nutcase is just further proof that this once respectable publication has well and truly gone to the dogs.

When asked about what occurred on the night of 10th March 2001 in the first floor bathroom at her Kinnerton Street mews house, Ghislaine Maxwell responded: “[Virginia Roberts] then characterized [sic] things took place in my bathroom in the bathtub itself. The tub is too small for any kind of activity whatsoever.” The picture of that very same tub used in marketing material by Wellbelove Quested proves exactly to the contrary.

The floor plan shared by the likes ‘The Daily Mail’ and ‘The Sun suggested the first-floor bathroom at the house to be 7-foot, 4 inches by 7-foot, 2-inches. Floor plans shared by estate agents Wellboved Quested suggested that the room is actually 8-foot, 4-inches by 8-foot, 2-inches. There was most definitely plenty of room for two…

A floorplan of 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia. In it, mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s home is clearly shown to be a place where ‘public’ entertaining took place on the ground floor, whilst ‘extracurricular’ activities took place on the upper two floors.

These photographs of 44 Kinnerton Street, taken in July 2021, provide proof that the bannisters seen in the March 2001 photographs remain inside said property. The setting in which Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts were captured was indeed most definitely genuine. In the same month, the new owners of the property displayed a poster at 44 Kinnerton Street for a festival that was to be held in East Anglia from 31st July 2021 to 1st August 2021. The event, the EA Festival, was hosted at Hedingham Castle – home to Jason and Demetra Lindsay – in Essex and had a line-up that included model and advocate Arizona Muse, film director Mike Figgis, ‘Countdown’s’ Susie Dent, sex commentator Rowan Pelling and comedian Josh Berry. The same open doorway also showed something else… The very same bannister that was shown in the photograph Prince Andrew, Virginia Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in.

This morning on Twitter, Matthew Steeples asked: “Why is Ian Maxwell, brother of Ghislaine Maxwell, trying to make out that the bathtub at her former home at 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia too small for Prince Andrew & Virginia Roberts Giuffre to have had sex in? I proved it was of normal size last year.” The majority of respondents thus far have taken the view that “he’s working for Prince Andrew.”

In November 2020, ‘The Steeple Times’ featured bathtub mats featuring Prince Andrew’s face and the caption “nonce” that were available for sale through Redbubble.com. Priced then at £23.61 ($32.30, €28.29 or درهم118.61), these 61cm by 43cm polyester microfiber items clearly proved very popular as they are no longer on the site. Clearly, there is a market for bathtub memorabilia that references the Queen’s supposed favourite son.

THAT 2001 Photo Thus Far NOT PROVEN A FAKE – The 10th March 2001 photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell

The photograph, taken supposedly by Jeffrey Epstein on the first floor landing at 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8ES, United Kingdom, has been shared by the world’s media in hundreds of thousands of articles and analysed countless times by countless experts.

In November 2019, the Daily Mail’s Inderdeep Bains called it: “The photograph that WON’T go away” and it, as of date, has NEVER been discredited. Amongst evidence suggesting it to be perfectly real is that:
- The setting of the photograph has been confirmed as genuine by the Maxwell family. Of it, in March 2021, Ian Maxwell told Radio 4’s Today programme: “I do recognise that setting.”
- The window in the picture has the same features as the front first floor windows of 44 Kinnerton Street.
- The width of the first floor landing is accurate to the measurements shown in the floor plan of the sales brochure prepared on the 14^th October 2021 by estate agents Wellbelove Quested.
- Though he claimed to be “at a loss to explain this particular photograph” during the 2019 BBC interview, the Duke of York has admitted to having visited 44 Kinnerton Street. He stated: “I don’t think I think ever went upstairs… The dining room and everything was on the ground floor.” Contradicting the royal, sources have claimed that the room behind him, Roberts and Maxwell in the photograph was used as a sitting room.
- The heights of all three individuals in the picture look to be accurate proportionately.
- Prince Andrew’s “chubby fingers” are clear to see. The Queen’s second son’s fingers are clearly “chubby fingers” and these very same “chubby fingers” have been seen hundreds of thousands of times in hundreds of thousands of other photographs.
- Prince Andrew has claimed he only ever goes out in London in a suit and tie. Images of him in open necked shirts in the capital – including one of him leaving the nightclub Chinawhite – prove to the contrary.
- Prince Andrew has claimed he does not “do” hugs and and embraces in photographs. Images of him taken in St Tropez embracing the US socialite Chris Von Aspen in July 2007 suggest the alleged non-sweater is wrong also on that score.
- The outfit worn by Virginia Roberts – a woman who has already received financial settlements from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – has been seen on her in photographs of her at Naomi Campbell’s 2001 birthday party in France. In spite of some suggestions that a lady only wears an outfit once, we counter that a lady in Miss Roberts’ unfortunate situation would be forced to wear what she was told appealed to those in control of her wished her to wear.
- Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times and Shaun Attwood of Shaun Attwood’s True Crime Channel have both seen inside 44 Kinnerton Street and the stair rail shown in the photo remains in place and is thus genuine to the setting. Attwood subsequently released film footage of this on his YouTube channel and The Steeple Times shared its most recent image of the open front door with the stair rail beyond in July 2021.
- Many experts have repeatedly stated photo manipulation was in its infancy at the time that this image first surfaced.
- The FBI have never questioned the authenticity of the image.
Twitter reacts to ‘The Telegraph’ being taken in by Ian Maxwell’s tall-tales…

The Names & Numbers – ‘Mucky Madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bathtub Bonk Pad’ – 44 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8ES, United Kingdom
- 28^th January 2023 – Valued at £2.317 million ($2.871 million, €2.641 million or درهم10.544 million) on TheMoveMarket.com, a sum 32.4% higher than the April 2021 sale price and a sum 503.4% higher than the January 1997 sale price.
- 14^th January 2022 – Property website TheMoveMarket.com values the house at £2.11 million ($2.88 million, €2.53 million or درهم59 million), a sum 19% lower than the current asking price for the unrenovated property.
- January 2022 – Estate agents Wellbelove Quested offer the mews house for £2.6 million ($3.6 million, €3.1 million or درهم1 million), an extraordinary increase of 49% on the sale price just 270 days earlier. The house is offered on a lease of 127 years that commenced on 24^th June 2014 and previously on their website Wellbelove Quested had marketed the house for a higher price of £2.75 million ($3.738 million, €3.283 million or درهم13.731 million).
- July 2021 – The Steeple Times reports on repainting work to the outside of the house being underway. An open door reveals the infamous staircase bannister to still be in-situ.
- 19^th April 2021 – Records confirm the house to have been sold for £1.75 million ($2.39 million, €2.09 million or درهم79 million).
- March 2021 – Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer offered cash from the “pending sale of her £1.45 million ($2 million, €1.74 million or درهم28 million)” home as part of a package when they sought bail for the mucky madam for a third time, the Daily Mail reported. This sum was 44% lower than the September 2020 asking price and 400% higher than the January 1997 purchase price.
- March 2021 – A Knightsbridge estate agent told The Steeple Times: “Knowing the street as I do, 44 is one of the smaller houses which I assume it to be a little over 1,000 square foot in size. Depending on the condition, I estimate the freehold value to be circa £1.8 million to £2 million ($2.5 million to $2.7 million, €2.2 million to €2.4 million or 9درهم million to درهم10 million).”
- December 2020 – Members of the Maxwell family attempted to raise finance on the property but are not successful, The Steeple Times learns from a financier with connections to the Maxwell family and their representatives. They were rejected, were rejected on the basis of the “toxicity” of their familial name.
- September 2020 – Estate agents Aylesford list 44 Kinnerton Street for sale for £2.6 million ($3.6 million, €3.1 million or درهم1 million) on (it was claimed) a freehold basis, a sum 797% than the January 1997 purchase price. They subsequently later reduce the asking price to £2.1 million ($2.9 million, €2.5 million or درهم10.5 million) “according to a leading property expert.”
- August 2019 – According to Insider, a woman with “long hair [who] appeared to be in her 60s” was seen entering the property. She “denied that the socialite owns or lived in the house, claiming instead that the elusive socialite lived elsewhere down the street.”
- 10^th March 2001 – Prince Andrew allegedly had sexual relations with 17-year-old Virginia Roberts in a bathroom in the property. He continues to deny this occurred whilst claiming that a photograph of himself with Miss Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell on the first floor of building is a fake also.
- 22^nd January 1997 – Ghislaine Maxwell paid £290,000 ($396,000, €347,000 or درهم5 million) for the three-storey leasehold mews house. It is situated at the heart of the Duke of Westminster’s Grosvenor Estate.
- 1989 to 1995 – Ghislaine Maxwell is known to have resided at 69 Stanhope Mews East, South Kensington, London, SW7 5QT. Her father bought it for her two years before his mysterious death and she reportedly “groomed and befriended Minor Victim 3 in London, England, between approximately 1994 and 1995… Maxwell introduced Minor Victim 3 to Epstein and during those interactions, Maxwell encouraged Minor Victim 3 to massage Epstein, knowing that Epstein would engage in sex acts with Minor Victim 3. During those massages, Epstein sexually abused Minor Victim 3” at that very property. It was sold for £267,000 ($365,000, €320,000 or درهم3 million) on 15^th March 1995 and then again for £1.75 million ($2.39 million, €2.10 million or درهم8.77 million) on 30^th August 2019.
January 28, 2023
UnAppealing Ghislaine – Will Wicked Wench Ghislaine Maxwell Succeed At Appeal?

As mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell gets a new appeal lawyer in spite of owing a fortune to her previous representatives, journalist Daphne Barak PR peddles for her after posing for pictures with the feckless fool that is the ultimate grifter, Sarah, Duchess of York

It must be noted that scum tends to inevitably float to the top of any pond and that birds of a feather tend to stick together. Examples of such came last week with revelations that Ghislaine Maxwell is now being represented by the pugnacious paedophile Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer and that a PR peddler named Daphne Barak is about to share a new interview with the noxious nonce in the coming days.

Whilst Barak – whom also posed for snaps with she who has never confirmed if she repaid loans taken from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Sarah, Duchess of York last month – was this morning given acreage to promote her ‘interview’ with her old chum of many years in both The Sun on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday, it was Page Six that revealed that Maxwell was becoming “jailbirds of a feather” with her old chum Weinstein after taking on attorney Arthur L. Aidala.

Maxwell (AKA prisoner 02879-509), who is now laughably also supposedly currently teaching “etiquette lessons” in the clink if the Independent is to be believed, still owes a sum estimated at £3 million ($3.7 million, €3.4 million or درهم13.5 million) to lawyers previously hired by her, her brother Kevin and her estranged husband Scott Borgerson.

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Pictured Top – Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein sat outside a cabin at Balmoral during a visit their when they supposedly met the late Queen even – if Daphne Barak is to be believed. Of this, Barak shares that Maxwell has now declared: “The Queen was one of the most exceptional women I ever had the honour and privilege of meeting.” The convicted sex trafficker added that the monarch had a “sparkle” in her eyes and declared she was “profoundly sorry” to learn of her death last year.

Birds of a rotten feather… The gruesome trio of paedophiles that was Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at a party given by he who paid a sum alleged to be as high as £12 million to a woman he claimed he never met, Prince Andrew, at Windsor Castle in 2006.

Arthur L. Aidala is very much of the publicity hungry school of lawyers. Aside from Harvey Weinstein, his firm, Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins, has also represented other mates of Ghislaine Maxwell including Alan Dershowitz. In documents submitted this week, he claimed: “[Maxwell] was malnourished… And yet she’s supposed to sit for a trial [with her] life on the life… In the United States of America, anyone who’s accused of any crime should not be abused by the US government the way she was abused… She did not get a fair trial… The judge ignored the many claims of malnourishment, living with vermin in her cell, lack of sleep, and overall deplorable conditions. There were also issues regarding lack of access to her lawyers. This is all in violation of her fundamental constitutional rights and will be powerfully brought to the attention of the appellate courts.” Of how he came to be involved with the mucky madam and her family, scions of a pension pot plundering tyrant, Aidala added: “After her sentencing… her trial team was done representing her and her family quite frankly reached out to us. Obviously we’d been in the headlines with Mr Weinstein’s case.”

Scotch drinking “Arthur cancels ‘cancel culture’” Aidala – pictured with Harvey Weinstein – was described in a July 2022 article in ‘The New York Times’ as “camera-ready” and “a lawyer who welcomes press attention.” Amongst this registered Democrat’s previous clients are the accused “socialite granny shover” Lauren Pazienza, the crossdressing oddity Rudolph W. Giuliani, cleared “killer crane rigger” William Rapetti, “daddy’s penis chopper-offer” Brigitte Harris and “boyfriend stabber” John Pickett. Of him, Alan Dershowitz tellingly remarked: “Arthur is the new me.”

Daphne Barak pictured in December with Sarah, Duchess of York and with Hillary Clinton – whom she references her as having “hosted” and “supported the presidential bid” of. Here is a ‘journalist’ whose close connections clearly muddy her mind when it comes to interviewing her subjects. Why didn’t this ‘journalist’ ask mucky madam Maxwell about ‘Killary’s’ husband taking at least 27 flights on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ and his convicted sex trafficker co-collaborator attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding? Curious that; very curious indeed.

Is Ghislaine Maxwell's forthcoming interview with Daphne Barak going to help or hinder her with her appeal (if she manages to get the funds together & a lawyer willing even)? #GhislaineMaxwell #PrinceAndrew #JeffreyEpstein #nonce #sexualabuse #sextrafficking #evil #sick #monster
— Matthew Steeples (@M_Steeples) January 15, 2023

January 15, 2023
MeGain’s Mouthpiece’s Moronic Meltdown – Soppy Omid Scobie v Joyous Jeremy Clarkson

Matthew Steeples salutes Jeremy Clarkson for expressing honest thoughts about the deviant Duchess of Sussex (and especially for causing the soppy snowflake that is ‘MeGain’s mouthpiece Omid Scobie to have a moronic meltdown as a result)

They say a “grifter’s gotta’ grift” and now that Omid Scobie’s been given another book deal courtesy of his ever-awful antics on behalf of his puppet mistress, the Duchess of Sussex, this PR peddling pillock had to yet again get his noxious knickers in a twist.

This time, Jeremy Clarkson – a man who may have finally found a subject of common ground with his love-hate rival Piers Morgan – wrote in The Sun of how much he loathes the meddling menace formerly known as Meghan Markle.

In his weekly column, Clarkson raged:

We all know in our heart of hearts that Harold Markle is a slightly dim but fun-loving chin who flew Apache helicopter gunships in Afghanistan and cavorted around Las Vegas hotel rooms with naked hookers.

But then along came Meghan, who obviously used some vivid bedroom promises to turn him into a warrior of woke.

And now it seems that she has her arm so far up his bottom, she can use her fingers to alter his facial expressions.

I actually feel rather sorry for him because today he’s just a glove puppet with no more control over what he says or does than Basil Brush.

Meghan, though, is a different story. I hate her.

Not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon or Rose West. I hate her on a cellular level.

At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, “Shame!” and throw lumps of excrement at her.

Everyone who’s my age thinks the same way.

But what makes me despair is that younger people, especially girls, think she’s pretty cool.

They think she was a prisoner of Buckingham Palace, forced to talk about nothing but embroidery and kittens.

That makes me even angrier. Can’t they see everything that’s happening is so very obviously pre-planned.

Leave the UK. Blame the royals. Do an interview with Oprah.

Get Basil Brush to write a book. Do a Netflix series — which should have been called A Woman, Talking Bollocks.

I can see it clearly. The studied pauses. The mock incredulity.

And the B-movie, soap-actress, quivery-voiced, more-in-sorrow-than-anger stories that are so obviously claptrap.

Do you really think she would have entertained a move to New Zealand? That’s 13 hours away from everything.

Responding on Twitter to a feature most definitely designed to stir-up the woke wazzocks of this world, the clearly very much unamused Finding Freedom ‘author’ and fake news muckspreader Scobie – whose next tittle-tattling tome, Endgame, will be speedily headed to the bargain basement bucket after publication on the 1^st August 2023 – continued his ongoing attacks on the Queen Consort. Without using a question mark, the possibly 41-year-old (possibly older) ‘writer’ enquired:

“Would that be the same Jeremy Clarkson was at a private Christmas party with Camilla, the Queen Consort earlier this week (alongside guests including a Mail editor and Piers Morgan).”

Following up later, in a further muddled missive, the onetime clubbing chum of the lump of junk that is Jodie Marsh painfully prattled:

“Timewasters trying to pop up in my mentions saying Clarkson and the Queen Consort are not friends. The man literally spoke about their close friendship on ITV’s cooperative Camilla’s County Life documentary four months ago. Bye.”

Paraphrasing something Jeremy Clarkson once said of Piers Morgan back in December 2012, today we conclude: “Americans. It took us 35 years to get rid of Prince Harry. Please don’t send him or his wicked wife back and whilst you’re at it take in the rabid ratbag Omid Scobie along with the man who paid £12 million to a woman he’d supposedly never met, Prince Andrew. You can have his feckless wife, Fergie, as a ‘Brucie bonus’ given it’s Christmas. Thank you ever so much, thank you kindly.”

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Pictured Top – Jeremy Clarkson brews beer and fools about on farms; he enjoys life and doesn’t take things too seriously. Omid Scobie, meanwhile, is simply an eternal misery and an arselicker of a mendacious meddler loathed by millions.

Prince Harry and his wife have brought more shame on the royal family in 2022 than even the mouthy moron Prince Andrew. In a year when we lost Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, that this pair decided to air their dirty linen on Netflix and Spotify is proof that they are utterly reprehensible and fit only to be sent to Siberia.

After Jeremy Clarkson quite justifiably had a pop at the Duchess of Sussex, it was only to be expected that Omid Scobie would stick his rotten oar in.

Reliably, when met with criticism of his whining, pathetic specimen Scobie ended another tweet about Clarkson’s article with a curt: “Bye.”

It must be made clear that the ‘Finding Freedom’ author has another a book to peddle and his publishers must be giving him a bit of a hard time. Likely having had sent up a rocket up his never-sorry-arse, Scobie will likely now desperately spin all sorts of additional nonsensical yarns in the coming months.

A job flogging French fries in McDonald’s might actually prove more appropriate for him by 2nd August 2023.

Elsewhere on Twitter, further mockery of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex understandably followed in the wake of their disgraceful Netflix diatribe.

December 18, 2022
A Question Of Clinton – Bill Clinton Quizzed About Involvement With Evil Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

As sex abuse victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre concludes matters with lawyer Alan Dershowitz with a very clear “dismissed with prejudice and without costs or award of fees to either party” agreement, Bill Clinton gets questioned about his involvement with croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Whilst many have quite wrongly got het up about the legal action of Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz ending – especially given the judgment clearly stated that the case was concluded with a perfectly clear “dismissed with prejudice and without costs or award of fees to either party” agreement on 8^th November in New York – the key question of who actually Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking her victims to remains unanswered.

Firstly, it must be highlighted that Ms Roberts Giuffre was not a participant in the 2021 case that led to the conviction of the sex trafficking nonce daughter of the ‘Bouncing Czech’ – she had settled with her in June 2017 “with Maxwell reportedly paying Giuffre ‘millions’” – and secondly that the matter of Giuffre v Dershowitz is unrelated to the settlement the 39-year-old Sacramento born campaigner reached with the man whom claimed never to have met her, Prince Andrew, in February 2022.

Secondly, though many are now yet again calling into question the reliability of Roberts Giuffre, she also received a settlement from Jeffrey Epstein in 2009. Previously abused by a “close family friend” aged just seven and also bythe international sex trafficker Ron Eppinger aged just fourteen, here is a lady who genuinely has been a victim of abuse for most of her life and here someone who now helps others through her Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR) non-profit.

Speaking of developments on the Megyn Kelly show on Sirius XM yesterday, Dershowitz stated that Roberts Giuffre’s claims were a “terrible mistake that cause me a lot of grief.” He added that he now wanted to “wish her well” and remarked: “As far as I’m concerned the matter is now resolved and we can all go on living our lives, me with a clean record.”

Elsewhere this week, in a connected development relating to a man who flew at least 26 times (and possibly many more times) on Jeffrey Epstein’s repugnant ‘Lolita Express’ private jet whilst numerous victims of sexual abuse were present also, a journalist named Juan Mendoza filmed himself confronting President Bill Clinton.

He subsequently shared his clip on Twitter and accompanied it with commentary that read: “Do you have comments on the alleged – allegation of your connection with Jeffrey Epstein?” In the video footage, very clearly the 42^nd POTUS bizarrely burst out laughing and answered: “I think the evidence is clear.”

Again raising questions as to how connected President Clinton was with both Epstein and Maxwell – who even attended his daughter Chelsea’s wedding in Rhinebeck, New York in July 2010 – this new evidence does not prove that this politician was involved in their evil activities, but it does show that he thinks the whole thing a bit of a hoot.

It is now time that the mucky madam Maxwell fessed up and as she faces the chance in June 2023 to get her sentence reduced, it wouldn’t do the wicked wastrel any harm if she actually did declare the names of those who she actually did sex traffic her victims to.

Follow SOAR | Speak Out, Act, Reclaim on Twitter at @speakoutactrclm.

Juan Mendoza captioned his tweet: “I confronted @BillClinton at the rally he held with @RepCuellar in Laredo about his alleged connections to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. ‘I think the answer is clear’” and later corrected it with a second tweet reading: “Correction: ‘I think the evidence is clear.’”

The ending of the Giuffre v Dershowitz case does not change the fact that the plaintiff was abused by numerous others and that she and numerous others were abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their numerous cohorts. It is time that these famous faces were named and shamed and brought to justice.

The non-profit run by Virginia Giuffre, Speak Out, Act, Reclaim (SOAR), is indicative of her dedication to now supporting helping other victims of sex trafficking get help and “reclaim their stories and stand up for themselves.”

Jeffrey Epstein with the 42nd President of the United States of America on one of the many occasions they spent days and days together. If you’d spent as much time as the Arkansas born politician did with the Ponzi schemer turned paedophile, you’d surely know something about what he was upto with the young women who accompanied him (even if you did not participate in it). You’d surely also have realised how very wrong this was and you’d have surely also have ended all contact with said monster.

The former President living it up with two of his chums whilst in residence in the White House – both of them subsequently convicted sex offenders and both of them people he chose to spend time with on multiple occasions without questioning what they were upto or having his security detail check them out either.

Even after her lover Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of sex offences in 2008, the Clinton family continued to welcome Ghislaine Maxwell in spite of the fact that she herself was linked to these crimes. The evil pension pot plunderer’s daughter even attended the 42nd POTUS’s daughter’s wedding in Rhinebeck, New York in July 2010 and sat front row. They do say: “If you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas” and in this case that adage most definitely applies.

November 10, 2022
A Mucky Marriage – Will Prince Andrew Remarry Fergie? Did They Ever Repay The Paedo Jeffrey Epstein?

As “rumours” circulate that ‘Randy Andy’ and ‘Feckless Fergie’ might remarry again do the rounds, we again ask: “Did they ever repay loans taken from the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?”

Yesterday, repeating a story that occasionally does the rounds, Entertainment Daily’s Julia Hunt asked: “Are Prince Andrew and Fergie to remarry in the wake of [his] sex scandal?”

Claiming the couple “have been plagued by rumours they could remarry recently,” former Bang Showbiz and Press Association freelance writer Hunt quoted a September 2021 feature by Vanity Fair’s royal ‘expert’ Katie Nicholl as her primary evidence. In it, Nicholl – best known for crashing Kate Moss’s 30^th birthday party at Claridge’s and discovering guests on the hokey-cokey – shared:

“Sarah and Andrew have been closer than ever in the past year. They still love and care for each other a great deal and have been living together during the pandemic.”

“It has rekindled something and I can see a second wedding happening if it [the Virginia Roberts Giuffre lawsuit] all goes Andrew’s way.”

Whilst Hunt’s update is clearly nothing but idle gossip produced without the citing of any new sources, last week the MailOnline’s Jack Wright revealed that the non-sweaty, Pizza Express loving mate of the alleged fraudster Bernie Ecclestone that is the Duke of York “barely leaves home.” He has been left wondering how his reputation has been left in tatters by his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein” and is said to be enduring a “period of intense self-reflection.”

Going further of a “virtual recluse” who has been left wondering “how everything went so wrong,” Wright turned to a previous article from The Telegraph and quoted yet another unnamed source, a “friend,” who stated:

“He has a much better understanding of the challenges he faces than at any other point in his life. He has a better sense of perspective – partly because he’s had these three years to reflect – to do the work, and to focus on his immediate family. The Duke of York of today is much more thoughtful and more mindful than he has ever been.”

“He acknowledges privately that Newsnight was by no means his finest hour.”

“The feeling that he has been treated abysmally is held by his nearest and dearest, but the duke’s attitude is more along the lines of: It is what it is.”

Clearly, though these ‘sources’ could be as made up as the spoof ‘Sir Michael Take CBE’ Twitter account that so successfully conned the MailOnline’s non-fact checking Elizabeth Haigh this morning (see below), things that seem unlikely do often occur in the royal family.

However, whilst the mainstream media may be asking if wedding bells will be again ringing for ‘Randy Andy’ and ‘Feckless Fergie,’ today we return to a question we will keep on asking of the money motivated duo and that is: “Did you ever repay the loans you took from the croaked paedophile Jeffrey Epstein?”

The friendship between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein dated back to the 1990s. In that time, both him and his ex-wife enjoyed hospitality and financial benefits from the since croaked paedophile without consideration of where the Ponzi scheming crook was actually getting his wonga from.

The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York did not think to question where the money they happily grabbed came from and they did not question what the mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell was doing with the young girls she so eagerly sex trafficked for Epstein either. How terribly convenient.

On Thursday 20th August 1992, the ‘Daily Mirror’ shared what they called “the pictures they didn’t want you to see.” In them, a topless Duchess of York was shown having her toes sucked in the South of France by a Texan millionaire named John Bryan. Of the incident, the ‘Mirror’ later reported: “Royal writer Richard Kay claimed in the ‘Daily Mail’ that he received a message via pager from Princess Diana the night before the photos hit the newspaper stands. Diana’s message was simple: ‘The redhead’s in trouble.’” If she were now to remarry the Duke of York, would it be accepted or would there be even more trouble?

This morning on Twitter, editor of ‘The Steeple Times’ Matthew Steeples shared a tweet about another example of ‘fake news’ shared by the ‘MailOnline’s’ Elizabeth Haigh. Accompanying a quoted tweet, Steeples observed: “The @MailOnline has been caught out by a spoof Twitter account. Sir Michael TAKE certainly TOOK some pillock on the paper. Retraction? Apology? I doubt it. #fakenews #dailymail #mailonline #youvebeenhad.” It is likely that ‘Entertainment Daily’s’ Julia Hunt has been similarly caught out with her story about the Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York considering remarriage, but who knows with ‘Needy’ and ‘Greedy’ … Stranger things could and have already happened.

The Weird Words of “Greedy” and “Needy” Sarah, Duchess of York

Of sex, her and goats: “One of the worst headlines said 82% [of the population] would rather sleep with a goat than Fergie. It’s never left me.”

Of the royal family: “They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.”

Of her life: “I have been in the gutter.”

Of food, family and dining: “As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, it’s fine with me.”

“With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!”

“We all sit round the table and eat together. Andrew and I believe in total parent unity. We’re best friends.”

Of wanting to be a television star: “I would quite like to go on Dancing With The Stars. I would like somebody to teach me to tango. I do know the show and my children would be so proud of me.”

Of when she decided she wanted to bag a royal: “I met [Prince Andrew] when I was 12, and I said: ‘I’m going to marry him.’”

Of marriage, divorce and work: “I left my marriage knowing I’d have to work. I have.”

“I didn’t want a divorce, but had to because of circumstance.”

“I wish we’d never got divorced. He and I both wish we’d never divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can’t.”

Of her many, many mistakes: “I felt that I ostracised myself by my behaviour, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake. Why have I made so many mistakes?”

“You look at the devil in the face, which you do. Then you forgive, and you say: ‘OK, I’ve made almost a mistake that will never be forgotten,’ and forgive.”

“I was so out of control with desperation… I was looking for quick fixes in the places I wouldn’t normally look… I’ve been a huge, over-trusting, idiotic, stupid woman that went to look for the perfect situation, and that’s all I can say really.”

October 31, 2022