Barbara Walters
The fixation upon Prince Andrew, erstwhile HRH the Duke of York, and his purported transgressions has regrettably eclipsed the manifold indiscretions of those who purport to champion the causes of women and children, particularly within the corridors of power in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.
The audacity of venerating figures such as the late Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson and Monica Lewinsky as paragons of women’s rights, victimization and autonomy, despite their aristocratic pedigrees and entrenched privileges, is expediently veiled by a cadre of feminist advocates, who themselves grapple with unacknowledged complicities in Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged network of human trafficking involving underage women.
Epstein, convicted of related charges well before the fuller scandal erupted, nonetheless sustained his labyrinthine enterprise of currying favor among the global elite, hosting soirées attended by luminaries including journalist Barbara Walters, renowned for her ‘penetrating interviews’ with statesmen and operatives alike, as well as Katie Couric and Hillary Clinton; the latter connected through her husband, former President Bill Clinton, a documented associate. Yet, these women of influence, potential enablers, facilitators, and wielders of sway, who must have navigated Epstein’s quid pro quo exigencies, evade scrutiny from legacy media, their feminist affiliations seemingly affording them a shield.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
In the United Kingdom, predating Prince Andrew’s exposure, allegations swirled around his late father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort to Queen Elizabeth II, implicating him in associations with Jimmy Savile, the BBC’s infamous presenter of Top of the Pops, who preyed upon vulnerable youth and the mentally impaired. Despite documentaries such as Netflix’s Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, which unearth evidence of Savile’s predations and his proximity to the royal family, including advisory correspondence with Prince Charles, such revelations have been deftly interred by mainstream outlets, all while preserving the veneer of the Crown’s inviolable dignity.
The Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II, it is posited, could scarcely have remained oblivious to these machinations, much as archival letters reveal she was apprised in advance of the 1975 dismissal of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by her Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, a constitutional upheaval she later navigated with professed detachment.
Nations such as Australia and the United States must undertake a rigorous self-examination of their governance structures, dominated as they are by an elite sorority of women who have parlayed glittering ideologies of empowerment, fighting victimization of women turning historical narratives into divisive instruments of control, ensnaring successive generations in service to their delusions of grandeur and insatiable quests for authority.
Christine Charlesworth and Roy Merriweather
