Give us the mugshot!

Biggest headline of the day for royal watchers and pop culture gossips – months after dropping his royal title, Just Andrew has been arrested in England. And he doesn’t even get a name anymore as the police confirmed that, "…we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk."

A man! Just a man!

On the group chat, my hilarious friend Lolo wrote this morning, “Imagine you’re a hooligan, chilling in jail for throwing a beer at a rugby match, and Andrew walks in.”

This is what I would like to know – where are they holding him? If they’re referring to him as “a man”, is he being treated as just “a man” in lockup? Will he have to use the same urinal that every other suspect has been using today? Is he in gen-pop with the regular degulars, making small-talk with people he has spent his whole life stepping on? Give us the mugshot!

It’s the most dramatic and spectacular fall from grace for a member of the British royal family notorious for his entitlement and spoiled attitude, in an escalating series of dramatic and spectacular falls from grace – starting, most recently at least, with his shambolic interview with Emily Maitlis that precipitated his retreat from public life, to having to relinquish his title, and then his home.

For those of us who’ve been paying attention, this has taken way too long. So long that one of his alleged victims is no longer alive. We’ve long known about Just Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein, well before the “Epstein Files” became part of our cultural vernacular. Virginia Giuffre Roberts told us, over and over and over again. There was a f-cking photo, to go along with the new photos that have emerged with the release of the Epstein documents.

But sex trafficking and sexual assault are not the reasons for Just Andrew’s arrest. What they’re trying to get him on now is basically insider trading. Which, depressingly, tracks. Financial impropriety is taken more seriously I guess than the safety of women and girls. I mean, sure, get him how you can get him and it’s not like I’m here to take away from the satisfaction of that but the fact remains that the accusations against him that pertain to criminal sexual activity have been undermined for so long, that damage can’t and won’t be undone just because he’s spending the day in a jail cell.

And where the media is concerned, in particular the British media, and not just the tabloids – this story is getting all the play today but let’s not pretend that they’ve been on it from the jump. Because they too, for YEARS, downplayed Just Andrew’s various messes, including on the governmental level. It was back in 2011, a whole ass 15 years ago, when Andrew stepped down as trade envoy but only after a litany of suspicions against him including his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein but also a series of shady business deals and property sales and, in his official position, entertaining sketchy but wealthy foreign leaders in exchange for suspected favours and benefits. Nobody was screaming about this at the same volume used over whatever objections they had with Meghan’s f-cking jam.

But let’s blow smoke up the British royal family’s ass today over King Charles’s handling of the situation, LOL. Not surprisingly the Firm is distancing itself from Andrew, as they have over the last several months, as if that erases the decades of protection they’ve afforded him, using the monarchy to shield him from accountability when all the signs were there that he would deliver onto the palace steps one of the greatest stains to their legacy. They weren’t just slow to act, their biggest problem is that they were UNWILLING to act – until they had to. And this remains their priority right now, not necessarily that justice will be served, but that they might be preserved.

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