It is, perhaps, hard to understand why Prince Andrew thought it would be a good idea to relaunch himself into public life on Monday, just 20 weeks after he paid a reputed $12m to settle a sex abuse and rape claim against him brought by a sex trafficking victim of his friend, the late sex offender and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.“The thing about Andrew,” a former royal staffer who previously worked with the prince told The Daily Beast, after surveying the wreckage of the past few days, which culminated in Andrew being obliged to pull out of a key ceremonial public appearance Monday, “is that you cannot possibly underestimate his arrogance. Everything you read about him, everything you hear about him, it’s not just all true, it doesn’t even begin to capture the entitlement of the man.”
Inside Arrogant Prince Andrew’s Dream of Relaunching His Royal Existence (The Daily Beast)