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What Next | The Andrew Formerly Known as a Prince

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How Virginia Giuffre’s accusations of a decade ago finally brought His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York, down to simply Andrew. Guest: Imogen West-Knights, Slate contributing writer. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Heads up, everybody. I got a little caught up speaking British on today's show.

0:06.6

I used a little coarse language when referring to a royal sex pest.

0:11.4

All right, you've been warned.

0:17.3

Slate's image in West Nights has got a problem, which is what exactly to call Prince Andrew these days, since apparently he's no longer a prince.

0:30.5

Well, apparently I'm supposed to be calling him Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, which is still kind of a mouthful.

0:37.5

You're not just calling him like a twat?

0:41.3

Sorry.

0:42.7

Well, I mean, yes, there are things I might be calling him in my private life that are less suitable for recording.

0:50.6

I just went there.

0:52.2

I mean, yeah, he's one of the, one of the least popular people in the country, I would say, at the moment.

0:59.7

Andrew got downgraded last week after allegations surfaced again that he had actively supported sex

1:06.6

criminal Jeffrey Epstein and even participated in those crimes himself.

1:12.7

Imogen says in the UK, there has not been a lot of love lost on Andrew.

1:17.8

All he did was spend loads of money and create diplomatic issues and, you know, accept

1:24.3

bugged computers from Russian spies. He was just an idiot, just like a proper idiot.

1:28.9

He wasn't exactly generous either.

1:31.9

The whole sine qua non of Andrew is like being a prince.

1:35.6

He has been a very sort of entitled role holder and really loved being above other people

1:43.1

by virtue of this title.

1:45.0

Can you give me an example of that?

1:46.6

There are lots of little stories in there about him, you know, insisting that people call

1:50.5

him by His Royal Highness and he would do things like fire people for wearing the wrong kind

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