What is it about the British upper class? They always sound so bloody snobbish, and cold as ice. I guess it’s the old stiff upper lip at work. Showing emotion isn’t considered classy. I think that was Prince Andrew’s problem the other day, during the BBC’s News night interview. When asked about his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew didn’t seem perturbed. He was just behaving the way he was taught, but it didn’t go down well. Now his Mom has had to fire him in order to satisfy the British taxpayers. It’s another Crack in the Crown.
Andrew should have sat down with his nephew’s wife, Meghan Markle, before the interview. He needed some acting lessons. Look how she got all teary eyed and emotional about how mean the British media has been. Now everyone thinks she’s been treated like dirt, and the world loves her, even if the queen doesn’t.
.Fiona Hill, former National Security Council adviser, who testified during the Trump impeachment hearings, had the same problem.. She was thin lipped, stiff, and coldly judgmental. His British accent was so thick that I could barely understand her. She wasn’t a very good witness for the prosecution, except in the eyes of the media, who hung on her every word. But to the average person in the Heartland, she came across as a British snob looking down on us tacky Americans. (She became an American citizen in 2002. )
One good thing– Andrew’s disastrous interview got Meghan and Harry out of the limelight. Whatever they said or did during their own controversial public interview was dwarfed by Andrew’s debacle. At least they hadn’t been caught running around with a criminal, and brushing it off like lint on a sleeve.
I don’t feel sorry for Andrew. He’ll be perfectly fine because the British Royals have had hundreds of years to accumulate enough wealth to take them into the next century. He’s pretty well fixed. Heck, he could move to Indiana with his money and live like a king. But of course, he won’t. It wouldn’t be classy, and he might have to behave like a normal human being.
