Plus the perils of pouring coffee down the drain in Richmond and a tempting £180k tutoring job
In among the endless coverage of Prince Andrew this week, a stray line in the Daily Mail caught my eye. David Boies, the US super-attorney who represented Virginia Giuffre and counts among his previous clients Bill Gates, Elizabeth Holmes and Harvey Weinstein, was quoted in the Mail on Monday furthering the following opinion: “At this point, I think Prince Andrew has suffered enough, but the Met police owe Epstein’s victims an accounting.”
I mean, two things jump out. Has he suffered enough, though? And, if accurately quoted, is counsel for Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victim, who died by suicide in April, the person to nudge our sympathies in her alleged abuser’s direction?
On the first issue, Prince Andrew is so thoroughly persona non-grata he is effectively under house arrest – but the house in question has 30 rooms and the garden including Windsor Great Park extends to some 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres), which would seem to diminish the suffering somewhat. And while it’s true he has lost use of one of his titles, he is, after all, still a prince. Even the suffering brought on by being trapped in a (very big) house with Sarah Ferguson – surely punishment enough for the harshest of crimes – is of course mitigated by the fact the pair were co-habiting before all this blew up again.
