This is such a random gossip thread, but it’s an interesting glimpse into how the royal establishment is actually totally fine with Prince Andrew, despite everything that’s known of his perversions, predations and degeneracy. Recently, buried in some story about how Prince William is being prepared for the Crown, it was claimed that King Charles has given William the task of organizing all of the shooting parties on royal property, like Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor. They were trying to make William sound like a big-boy king-in-waiting, like “oooh, what a big job, you have to organize the hunts!” Well, it looks like William and Charles are allowing Andrew to continue to have “hunting rights” on all royal properties.

King Charles will allow his disgraced brother, Prince Andrew, to continue hosting lavish shooting parties at royal estates, including Windsor, The Royalist can exclusively reveal. Friends of Andrew insisted he was “categorically not” being banished from royal events or the king’s presence, in what appeared to be the first sign of a fightback from the beleaguered prince.

The revelations will alarm Prince William, who has lobbied hard for Andrew never again to appear alongside senior royals and believes his father has been “weak” in dealing with both Andrew and Harry. William sees a pattern of frailty, which Charles indulging Andrew with Windsor shoots will only confirm. William refused to have his children under the same roof as Andrew when they were at Balmoral this summer, insisting the Yorks stay elsewhere on the estate.

So, news that Andrew will once again organize his so-called “family day” at Windsor shortly after the pheasant shooting season starts in November will infuriate William, coming just days after Charles bowed to William’s view that Andrew and Sarah Ferguson would not join the royals on Christmas Day.

Charles, however, is thought unwilling to deprive Andrew of the shooting privileges he has enjoyed since boyhood, which were effectively gifted to him by his mother. “Invites to Windsor are like gold dust,” one long-time sporting acquaintance of Andrew told me. “You can’t take that away from a man who has lived his whole life on the peg.”

Andrew’s biographer and nemesis Andrew Lownie told The Royalist it was “not unreasonable” for the King to allow Andrew to keep his shooting rights, adding: “King Charles does not want to antagonize his younger brother entirely but he needs to recognize that the public want some answers about the Yorks’ connections with Jeffrey Epstein and how they have exploited their royal status for personal financial gain. The Palace always seems behind the current of events, too little, too late. It’s time to grip this crisis, which is threatening to envelop the whole monarchy.”

[From The Royalist]

It’s strange to say that “this is going to infuriate William” when William is supposed to be the one organizing who does what during pheasant and grouse season. It’s possible that this is just Charles telling Andrew, “sure, you can keep hosting shooting parties” without consulting William. But it’s also possible that all of this “rageholic William hates Andrew” sh-t is just for show as well. Anyway, it’s not like photographers attend Andrew’s shooting parties – I have no idea when the man hunts or where. The only reason this is an “issue” is because people seem to want to make it an issue.

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