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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Wednesday, the 16th of February.

So, Prince Andrew, he's settled. They've issued no details of the settlement, although listening to Camilla Tomeney on the

television earlier on today, they were guesstimating that it was 12 million and that the queen might

have dipped into her purse for it, because I don't think he's got 12 million. And of course,

as we've said all the time, this no admission of guilt it's a case of

let's make it go away but to be honest with you they had one of Andrews friends on and uh I was

fascinated by it because I remember thinking 12 million makes this go away I don't think it does

she's going to put it into her charity she has a charity that's been set up and he said he's

going to make an effort. But somebody was saying that he wants to sort of come back into the

royal family. Well, there's no chance of that ever happening at all because all of his titles

have been given away to other people. And the advice from one of his friends, and I think from

the royal family, is go away and stay away.

Literally, don't come back into the Royal Family. They're not interested. It's become a bit of a millstone and embarrassment. But can you imagine you're not guilty and yet you pay 12 million.

But this happened with Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson paid Jordy Chandler a huge sum of money,

but that was no admission of guilt or anything else.

But then I spoke to, I didn't, sorry, somebody else spoke to a lawyer on the television.

And they said that 95% of these cases in America don't go through.

They end up settling out of court.

But in the case of Prince Andrew, you know, 12 million is a lot of money,

whichever way you look at it, you know, you can imagine if it was us. Well, it wouldn't be

us. I mean, that'd be ridiculous. But imagine coming up with 12 million. Well, I could probably

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