His royal minus: Prince Andrew
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The queen’s second son has been stripped of his titles—an apparent bid to insulate the crown from his legal troubles. But dangers to the prince and to the monarchy remain. A blockade of Mali, intended to force a return to democratic order, may worsen security and entrench foreign influences. And the genre of “eco-horror” evolves alongside environment-driven anxieties.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:08.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.1 | With two coups in the past two years, Mali is no stranger to upheaval, |
| 0:21.6 | but sanctions imposed by a regional bloc intended to restore democratic order |
| 0:26.6 | look likely to make a messy security situation messier |
| 0:29.6 | and to entrench Russian influence in Mali. |
| 0:32.6 | And nature might be beautiful, but in the hands of filmmakers, |
| 0:36.6 | it easily becomes forbidding and dangerous. |
| 0:40.3 | We examine a well-trodden genre with a newish name, Eco-horror, whose message is evolving alongside the rise in environmental fears. |
| 0:53.3 | First up, though, Britain's Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has, in effect, been excommunicated from the royal family. |
| 1:05.8 | The Queen's second son is being stripped of all military titles and royal charity roles. A royal source says he will |
| 1:13.2 | also lose the use of his title, His Royal Highness. After years denying the accusations of abuse |
| 1:19.7 | against him, today any prospect of a return to public life for the Duke of York is over. |
| 1:25.7 | The drastic demotion comes just 24 hours after a US court ruled his sex assault trial |
| 1:31.0 | will go ahead. |
| 1:32.7 | A civil case brought in America against the Prince by Virginia Joufrey claims that he raped |
| 1:37.6 | her as a teenager knowing she was being trafficked by the disgraced and now deceased financier |
| 1:42.8 | Geoffrey Epstein. |
| 1:44.6 | The Prince has always strenuously denied the charges, |
| 1:48.0 | but the pressure on him has intensified since a frankly uncomfortable BBC interview in 2019. |
| 1:53.7 | You were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender. |
| 1:57.8 | It was a convenient place to stay. |
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