The allegations that Prince Andrew had sex with an underage woman have yet again sparked public outrage over the behavior of the British elite and raised questions on whether the rich and powerful can do whatever they want and get away with it.
According to widely reported allegations, between 1999 and 2002, Prince Andrew had sexual relations with a then teenage girl at the behest of his friend at the time Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is a convicted sex offender who ran his own sex slave operation for many years in order to befriend, and also to blackmail, potential clients ranging from the political world to Hollywood.
While these are just allegations at this stage, they’ve caused quite a stir among the British public. The cozy nature and closeness of big business and politics, the Royal Family and powerful media institutions, is hardly anything we don’t already know about, more like standard modus operandi. But the details of how these powerful people operate, their treatment of human beings as objectified commodities based on nothing more than their obscene wealth, inherited or otherwise, throws things into sharp focus.
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