Do You Believe Her?

@Dan193 Back in the day, underage concubines kept within the palace was very common.

@NativeOregonian That’s the thing, she wasn’t underage when she slept with Andrew. She was 17. I think the age of consent in Britain back then was 16, but definitely 17.

@Carissimi It is 16 still

@Carissimi Regardless of the age of consent, the topic is that apparently there was not actual consent, but was instead forced since she was trafficked.

@NativeOregonian Trafficked by Epstein, although he was never convicted of that crime either. He was convicted of procuring underage prostitutes or something like that. That’s why we wanted him alive, and facing a trial.
The thing is there are two things going on in that are being lumped in as one. The Epstein trafficking case, and the Prince Andrew case. She never said Andrew forced her, she said she thought Epstein and his girlfriend expected her to sleep with him, so she did.
I’m not defending anyone here. I want the truth to come out, but it’s he said/she said at the moment.

@Carissimi That is still force, not consent, which technically is still rape.

@NativeOregonian If she was forced, it was because of Epstein. Maybe Andrew knew, and maybe he didn’t. Until there is an investigation and charges, we won’t know.

@Carissimi Like I said in my own comment, Buckingham Palace already did their own investigation and Andrew was stripped of his duties. His interview with Emily Maitlis was a major disaster, not caring in it that she was being held against her will, which was cause for the internal investigation. You apparently are NOT listening, nor caring to take it seriously.

@Carissimi A lucid and important point made here.

@NativeOregonian I’m not listening? I asked you a valid question about this so called investigation, and you didn’t answer. Just because YOU say they investigated, doesn’t mean they did. I’ve not heard or read anything about a Buckingham Palace internal investigation in any news report. What’s your source?